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Oh was that the guy who designed the windowless dorms?

Every plan should be on the table to provide more safe, affordable, community-oriented housing than is available today. Artificial light and ventilation in bedrooms are routine (e.g., every skyscraper in the winter) and should not have been a dealbreaker, especially if this is one choice out of many for the students.

I’d support excluding windows in dorms if we’ve already checked the cushions for other possible cuts around campus and couldn’t come up with any.

Imagine taking on $50k in student loans to live in a windowless room

"Imagine taking out much smaller student loans, to live in a space with vastly improved common areas, and having your own isolated space to sleep instead of having to share it with 1-2 others."

To be clear, I think the building is awful and fails at most of its stated goals, but I think the goals themselves were solid.

Sure. But it’s kind of a bizarre form of treating the symptoms of a deeply broken financial model rather than the causes.

My eyes popped the first time I learned what my American colleagues paid for their education.

Munger himself mentioned this as the rationale: having fewer windows flows logically from maximizing interior space.

I’d take a windowless dorm if the price was right. My shades are always closed anyway.

Yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munger_Hall

I guess he's on his way to a windowless dorm now aha

> Munger donated $200 million to the project on the condition that the university follow his design exactly.

Multibillionaire hubris is truly something else.

… at least the halls were wide and the ceilings high.

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