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BYUSA Elections 2012: Be Informed on the Bathroom Issues

WHAT DO THE CANDIDATES SAY ABOUT BATHROOMS AT BYU??

LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE:

-Thanks to Josh Doying for theses interviews

Celebrity Favs

After much research, BYU Bathrooms proudly presents BYU Celebrity Favs!


I went around emailing and calling notable BYU faces to see which bathrooms around campus the preferred. And this is what I got:

Divine Comedy star

“ I'd say my favorite is the east bathroom on the main floor of the WILK (over by the ballroom). I like the space. I sleep in there quite often. ”

local rapper

 “Dat's weird” and “I dunwanna answer dat”

Most winning game show contestant ever

“Men's room, south end of the Talmage building, ground floor.  I guess

I don't really have any interesting insight into this bathroom or fond

memories there...none of my children were conceived there or anything.

 But it was right next to my office when I was a TA in the CS

department, so I have peed there more than any other Provo bathroom,

including any of my apartments.”

presidential candidate

His campaign office failed to reply to my emails.

#11 The Brimhall Building

Have you ever wondered where the Brimhall Building is or what's inside? Well wonder no more. It's on the southwest side of campus, right across from the Heber J. Grant building. Inside, you will find the communications department consisting of advertising, broadcast journalism, print journalism, communications studies and public relations. While the building may be nice, the bathroom situation is quite odd.


On the first floor you find both male and female bathrooms. They are cramped and small. The builders seemed to have just jammed them in. On the second floor you only have one bathroom, a female bathroom and on the third floor you have only a male bathroom (well, there is a female one, but it's very hidden.) This can make for some confusing and embarrassing moments as has happened to many a folk in the Brimhall building. You forget what floor you're on and the next thing you know, you're in the wrong bathroom.

Below you find the first floor. Hardly any room. The paper towel dispensers are too cool for the wall, they are stuck to the side of the divider for the stalls. (Notice the Egyptian style tile patters!)

Do you enjoy standing very close to your neighbor when going to the bathroom? Me neither. And notice the left urinal. Not so tidy if you ask me. The stench is a plenty.

Here you have the third floor. The urinals are wide mouth. Maybe if the stalls are full you could use this for number two? I think not.

The color scheme is much more appealing and the bathrooms are larger on the third floor. There is a nice black and white theme in the bathrooms and it doesn't smell too awful.

While you can also tell that this bathroom is not tidy (from the toilet paper on the ground), it is prepared for anything with the trusty (and crusty) plunger at the ready.

And finally, if you are 3 feet tall, this bathroom is perfect for you because the paper towel dispenser is about waist high.

Go or no?

Cleanliness - 

Decor -  

Location - 

Traffic - Low

Overall - 


-Thanks to Nick Barnes for this review

Story Series: Separate but Equal

Valentines day, of all days, really helps highlight the difference between guys and gals.  As has been illustrated before on this blog (and in one of our personal favorite episodes of The Office) when it comes to bathrooms between the genders, there is no “separate but equal,” involved. Which is one of the reasons why wandering into a bathroom that belongs to the other sex can be such a jarring experience. That, combined with the fact that going into the wrong bathroom is such a social taboo in our society that if caught doing it, one be instantly turned into a pariah, makes close encounters with the wrong restroom a unique and almost life defining experience. These slip ups turn into those stories you tell over and over again and wonder how you ever missed the stick figure in the standard gender skirt or pair of pants.


As a BYU student, the most common place for these “bathroom blunders” has to be the bottom floor of the JFSB. The JFSB is definitely a rose among the thorns on our campus. When compared to the MARB or SWKT, the JFSB is a parthenon of wisdom and good architecture. Which may explain the choice to construct the building symmetrically – the left side an exact mirror of the right. Which is all fine and dandy – until you get to the bathrooms. In one corner, the men’s room is on the left (inside) and the ladies’ on the right (outside). On the other, the men’s is on the right (still inside) and the women’s on the left (outside). It’s small structural anomaly that no one would notice, that is until they were going to the bathroom in a corner in which they were not accustomed.


My freshman year, I would leave History 201 and take quick potty break by going into the bathroom on the right. MWF, for weeks, I’d repeat this response to the call of nature. Then one day, for some reason, I found myself at the other end of the hall. Without thinking, I went into the bathroom on the right, the one that should be marked “Men’s Room.” The pink walls were the first sign of something amiss. The next big sign was when I turned to look for urinals and couldn’t find any urinals. As I saw a girl emerging from one of the stalls I realized the gravity of my mistake. I yelled a quick excuse of some sort and started running. I didn’t stop till I reached the top of the stairs outside. I’ve never been back to the bathrooms in the JFSB since. Happy Valentines day, and watch your restroom signs.


-Thanks to Josh Doying for this BYU Bathroom story

Email jesse@byubathrooms.com to submit your awkward/funny/moving/appropriate bathroom story that happened here at BYU

#10 The Chemistry Bathrooms (Benson ground floor)

Something that each girl at BYU will learn is that you don’t go to the bathroom during passing period.  


There seems to be two solutions to this problem:
1.      Never go to the bathroom on campus, particularly at the end or the beginning of an hour.
2.      Find a bathroom which through alien rays or pixie dust, is not crowded.


The best way to find a bathroom that is not crowded, is to generally avoid women.  This would make buildings which women generally avoid to be prime localities.  It gets even better when said avoided bathroom is massive.  And the bathroom next to the Fishbowl in the Ezra Taft Benson building fulfills these qualifications.

As with the Eyring and Clyde buildings, women generally do not frequent the chemistry building. But the Benson’s bathrooms are ginormous!  Whether for Title IX or something about 'separate but equal' bathroom facilities for the sexes, they made the women's bathrooms the same size as the men's. So, women are now given rows of stalls from which to make their selection.

With the plethora of stalls, these bathrooms are always open to women, and even the men can make their choice in their bathroom.  In all my days of being a female science major, I have run into another double-x chromosome in the BNSN bathroom approximately three times.  

If you don't mind the slightly institutionalized feel of the line of stalls and instructional signs, these bathrooms are great.  Keep in mind that they are for scientists and not designers.

 OH HEY convenience. You don't even have to step once to get from the sink to the paper towels.

These are both really low to the ground. How often do kids go into this building? I didn't think so...

Go or no?

Cleanliness - 

Decor -  (quite antiseptic and hospital feeling)

Location - 

Traffic - Low

Overall - 


-Thanks to Hannah Russell for this review

Story Series: Grandma's Gotta Go

A group of adolescent females called BYU police when an elderly female accosted and threatened them in the bathroom. The girls all went to use the restrooms at the same time and the woman was upset that there was no open stall. Police were not able to locate the elderly female.

BYU NewsNet - Police Beat: April 2, 2008


Email jesse@byubathrooms.com to submit your awkward/funny/moving bathroom story that happened here at BYU

#9 The Writing Center Bathrooms (JKB 4th Floor)

Are you the kind of person who'd take a few extra steps, maybe climb some stairs, for extra privacy in your public bathroom experience? Then this b'room is for you! I have been given several tips to check out this one because of their private nature and cleanliness.

Really, all of the bathrooms in the JKB are pretty good because they are fairly new, but the Writing Center Bathrooms really take the cake because of their limited use. 

When you go, check out the HUGE handicapped stalls. You could fit a small car in them. Until found otherwise, these hold the record for Most Roomy Stalls.

Because of the low-traffic nature of the bathroom, you can be assured that both the soap and hand towel dispensers will be able to provide for all your hand washing needs.

One heads up: They are kinda hard to find sometimes (just like most rooms in the JKB, seriously). They are tucked out of the way in a secluded place--hence the extra privacy. Here's a video to help you know where they are a little better:

Go or no?

Cleanliness - 

Decor - 

Location - 

Traffic - Very Low
Grammar/Spelling: 

Overall -