Doherty Hall 2100 Area Men’s

This restroom is found in the 2100 area, next to the fifty cent pop machine. It’s a popular restroom to use between classes, and it is horrible.

Room

For a busy public restroom, it’s pretty cramped. It tricks the unfamiliar into thinking it’s nice with a nook in the wall before you enter, but it’s a lie. If you use this during off hours, you should have a comfortable amount of room, but during the day, especially between classes, having more than one or two people makes he room crowded. Especially with only one urinal, toilet, and sink in it, lines form quickly. And if it’s crowded, it’s starts to smell pretty rank for obvious reasons.

Equipment

With only one sink, urinal, and toilet, there really isn’t enough to go around for this high-crowded area. First off, the urinal. It’s would be a pretty standard urinal if it wasn’t so freaking close to the door. You could be peeing and all of a sudden someone walks in right behind you. The toilet is actually pretty nice. It’s slightly higher than your average toilet, so it’s nicer for taller people, it flushes well, has a spacious stall with minimal graffiti, but this was all canceled out by the fact that there was a brown poop stain on the front inside of the bowl. Front. Inside. Now it’s not like you’re never going to see stains on a toiler from time to time, but how bad does someone have to mess up a crap to get a stain on the front of the bowl? Worst case scenario if your penis touches the front of the bowl. Lastly, the sink. Average sink except for the fact that the hot water knob doesn’t work. Look at the sink picture above. No hot water. So washing your hands is just miserable. Everything looks nice, but it’s all pretty bad.

Privacy

Worst part about using this place is the lack of privacy during peak traffic hours. Normal hours, it’s pretty average privacy, but between classes (which is when almost anyone would use this restroom) you end up in a crowded line where you barely have room to move and navigating involves pushing a lot of people around. It’s not very lovely to have someone hit your backpack when using the urinal because of how freaking close it is to the door. And the awkward placement of the garbage can (against the wall, between the door and the sink) just makes trying to get out even worse. The stall gives an average sense of privacy when not crowded, but you can see 2 or 3 pairs of feet under the stall waiting, it just feels awkward.

This restroom would be only below average if it wasn’t for how horrible it is to use during the day. So if you need to go in real quick for a leak in the evening or night, it will do fine. However, it’s highly likely to be messy after a long day, and just has a bad layout overall. And NEVER go here in between classes. You’ll save time and sanity going somewhere else.

★½