re: A farewell to Kirby Smith Hall

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pentagon didn’t have window units until around 2000
and that was the IT dorm in the 80s. All the cool kids wanted to live there.

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Yep, lived there '85-86 senior year. Then, just like now, probably the coolest-looking old school dorms around, with the oaks and huge courtyard. Only 4 rooms per landing, okay bathrooms to share.

With high ceilings, the ceiling fan and the shade trees and a room on the north side of a building, lack of A/C was only an issue for a short while-- the 1st month of classes and last 2 weeks (early May). Rest of the time it was pleasant with the windows open... in winter's cold when they turned on the steam to the radiators, those things KICKED out some heat.