The Students’ residence halls

From Tanya

When I first saw Waddel Hall, I loved the lawns but hated my room – claustrophobic, dark, lonely. I had been in a similar place in Strathclyde University, the facilitites were a bit more modern but same economical space. And why just one shower for 7 people in a country which could certainly afford more ‘luxury’ for its students? Or maybe what I find a bit austere, stingy if you like, is just being reasonable with regard to rising water bills and concerns about the environment? Thrift is perhaps a value that is being nurtured from an early age? Same with separate taps…My country could learn a lot about our wastefulness/..(which we proudly call ‘generosity’). The environment ‘strikes back’ here – floods, conflagrations, tsunami…

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