To improve Clinton...

An idea that our group came up with today that would improve Clinton hall while being an inexpensive and simple fix would be to switch the location of the recreational room and the study lounge locations.  The recreational room is located on the ground floor of Clinton next to the laundry room.  It is a closed room that has the potential to be a great study area.  The study lounge though is in a high traffic area which is open with lots of windows.  For people who actually want to study, this proves to be an issue.  The distractions that come from the people constantly walking by the study lounge and how noise carries from the main doors are very apparent.  

If the rooms were to be switched around people would still be able to hangout in a common area and play things like pool, foozball, and ping-pong, but it would also be an area that is hard to do things like drink alcohol because of the open entrance and plenty of windows.  Additionally, it is across the hall from the Clinton RHD, so this would further discourage inappropriate actions.  

The old recreation room as a study lounge would be perfect because it is next to the laundry room.  This would allow people to do homework while they wait for their laundry to get done.  This could also be a way to improve the laundry area by not having as many people leave their laundry in the dryer/washer because they are doing homework in their room.  Also, this room that the study lounge could be moved to has closed doors which would allow for an even quieter place to study.

I realize that this may not be the perfect option to fix the issue of lack of public study places in Clinton Hall or the issue of checking your laundry, but it is one way to try and fix the problem.  This solution would also cost the school next to nothing if anything at all!