Baits I closing after this academic year
Living on North campus my freshman year, its kinda sad to hear.
November 8th, 2011 at 12:49 PM ^
and his god damn corporate-ness is to blame
November 8th, 2011 at 12:52 PM ^
Heard they were tearing it down to put in a mascot training and jersey design facility that also serves exclusively Domino's pizza and curly fries while blaring rawk music. The facility will have speakers mounted on the outside to make the music louder, and should be large enough to engulf the band practice facilities, so no more band.
Also, it will be filled with rich people.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:01 PM ^
will be allowed, but people will be able to opt out of purchasing them at the facility for $40. Also, advertisements. You just know they're coming inside the new dorm. How you know, you don't know, but you know.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:04 PM ^
since there is no more band does that mean we can pave over that turf and have our roller hockey back?
November 8th, 2011 at 1:34 PM ^
Will Pop Evil play at the openning ceremonies?
November 8th, 2011 at 3:06 PM ^
Hopefully, and opened by Nickelback.
November 8th, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
I'll trade Baits I for North Quad
November 8th, 2011 at 4:09 PM ^
there's a "North Quad" now?? When did this happen?
November 8th, 2011 at 4:28 PM ^
My friend in SQuad Dining says North Quad was voted best dorm food in the country. I find that hard to believe but... I guess I have to just try it.
November 8th, 2011 at 5:22 PM ^
So the quality of food there is pretty good. The problem is they serve whole plates of food rather than having it buffet style. If you want chicken and pasta, you also get potatoes and a pile of questionable looking nameless food. Then again, it's better than tofu every night at East Cloud.
November 8th, 2011 at 4:47 PM ^
The godawful Frieze Bldg (spelling?) across from the MLB was razed a few years back to construct North Quad. Saw it for the 1st time on Purdue weekend. It's much better looking than the Frieze Bldg., thats for sure.
November 8th, 2011 at 7:07 PM ^
When they decided to nuke the Frieze building and let all of the most useless departments on campus scurry out like rats. I haven't heard where Cuneiform Studies ended up.
November 8th, 2011 at 12:52 PM ^
Sucks for anyone who has a lot of memories there. I wonder what the Oldest Resident Hall is though? I mean this had been around since the 60's, I doubt there's anything older than that
November 8th, 2011 at 12:54 PM ^
The only dorms that are newer than Baits are Bursley and North Quad.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:04 PM ^
other dorms have had some sort of a face lift over the years
its next to the drama and music schools, wonder if they are going to wait for a donor to cough up some dough and build a huge dorm/expand the north campus offerings
November 8th, 2011 at 7:58 PM ^
Well shows how much I know about the Campus buildings. That's definitely surprising to me
November 9th, 2011 at 11:33 AM ^
I believe East and West Quad were built around 1940, and South Quad around the '50s or so.
November 8th, 2011 at 12:52 PM ^
Wonder what they'll do with it. The place was a dump though.
November 8th, 2011 at 12:58 PM ^
Does this mean Baits 2 gets promoted to Baits 1? Or do they just become Baits? Or Baits 2 could change its name to something more accurate such as "Dumpsville" or "The Dorm of the Lottery Losers"
November 8th, 2011 at 1:12 PM ^
"Baits 1" was an endowed residence hall, intended solely for NFL-prototype wide recievers of over 6'1" in height.
If they try to give the name "Baits 1" to Baits 2, you could have the situation in which walk-on defensive backs could then be living in "Baits 1."
November 8th, 2011 at 1:00 PM ^
About time.
Take it from someone who worked in Residential Housing last year - that place is literally held together by duct tape, boiler room included. Its almost sickening how much money Residential Housing put into North Quad furniature (thousand dollar chairs anyone?) while neglecting basic repairs for other dorms.
/rant
November 8th, 2011 at 1:18 PM ^
The University is making its update rounds and closing each and every dorm for a year to bring it up to par, you know. Couzens and Stockwell are fantastic, just as nice as North Quad... And Alice Lloyd is happening right now. East Quad next year.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:26 PM ^
I know they upgraded the dining facilities in MoJo a few years back - did they ever renovate the rest of the building?
November 8th, 2011 at 8:04 PM ^
Why would they renovate East Quad? The dive bar ambiance is a big part of what keeps the hipster Residential College together.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:01 PM ^
good riddance.
that place was awful
November 8th, 2011 at 1:17 PM ^
Good. Begone. Knock it down and build me a roller coaster.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:31 PM ^
You need to update your sig to include the Purdue win.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:49 PM ^
I had a roommate who decided to transfer to Penn State after first semester (in-state tuition) so I got to use his bed as a permanent beer pong table.
So yeah, I have good memories in Baits I.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:01 PM ^
My sole memory of Baits during undergrad was having to trek up to North Campus for something my sophomore year, getting lost, and finding myself amongst the Baits buildings suddenly surrounded by deer. At which point a bunch of dazed-looking students began to slowly stream out of their buildings into the grass to stare at the deer. I felt like I was in some kind of Soviet zombie film.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:05 PM ^
We shot bottle rockets at them.
We probably didn't realize it at the time but the bottle rockets may have helped to deter the pesky deer herds.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:12 PM ^
November 8th, 2011 at 2:50 PM ^
I knew of someone who lived on the ground floor of Baits 1 my freshman year who found a dead deer in thier room upon move in day. Apparently the deer had crashed through the window over the summer and in panic/injured mode coudn't figure out how to get back out through the window and died. On the plus side they got to live in the new MoJo for a month, but then got moved back into that room after housing had "cleaned" it.
November 8th, 2011 at 4:15 PM ^
Class of 2012? I remember hearing that story around the time I moved in as well (Baits II for me). Never knew if it was just urban legend or actually legit.
To me, Baits was where my dreams went to die, so this comes as good news to me.
November 8th, 2011 at 6:44 PM ^
I remember this too, I worked in the North Star during this time (and for 3 of my 4 years in AA). Although the location indeed sucked for a number of reasons for many students, I always liked Baits for being so quiet and remote, up in the "wilderness" of North Campus.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:24 PM ^
My buddy and I got put into Bursley my freshman year. Both of us were pretty bummed, we wanted to be on Central. Fast forward a month into school and my roomate and I go out to enjoy the nightlife. I, apparently, enjoyed it a little too much. My roomate put me to bed at 3:00am. At 7:00am I woke up with a citation on my chest that informed me that I had peed, not only in the hallway, but on my RA's door. Worse yet, my RA opened the door and I apparently peed all over his legs.
I felt terrible. My parents felt worse. My RA felt worsest. In my disciplinary meeting, I was told I had "irrevocably damaged the fabric of my community" and would be moved to Central campus. Being an 18 year old jerk, I said "good, that's where I wanted to be anyway". Idiot. She smiled and informed me that I would be moved to Baits instead. Further North and no cafeteria. Parents were none too happy. On the bright side, my new roomate in Baits is still a close friend of mine.
I no longer pee on people.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:50 PM ^
Lived in Baits II for four years (Max Kade German Residence). Lot of great times up there, I really enjoyed it. I had a lot of friends over in Baits I as well. Honestly never really understood all the complaints, but then, getting smashed at frat parties never had much appeal to me either.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:45 PM ^
I lived in Baits I, and I would have preferred to live in Baits II by a significant margin for the simple fact of Baits II's proximity to the dining hall at Bursley. I liked my room in Baits I, but little else.
Side note: I spent a lot of time in the Kade Haus though I wasn't part of it. It seemed like a fun place to be if you were studying German language, history, or culture as your major.
November 8th, 2011 at 4:13 PM ^
The Kade Haus was certainly a good experience. It provided a good network of people with some common ground to get you started off right in terms of meeting new people, making friends, etc. Also definitely provided some good oppurtunities for boosting one's German knowledge. The best part was probably the (heavily-subsidized) spring break trips. Each year we went to either Germany or Austria for a week, largely on the dime of some donor or foundation. Some truly legendary stories came out of those trips!
November 8th, 2011 at 6:38 PM ^
I lived among the Germans when I was a freshman. We had the bottom floor in Thieme (I think thats how its spelled), and the rest was Max Kade students. It made for an interesting year but I still think we should have gotten a subsidized trip too!
November 8th, 2011 at 2:58 PM ^
Why all the hate? Co-ed hallways (with a remarkably out-of-whack girl/guy ratio) and a lack of RAs (2 per building) were kind of awesome...
November 8th, 2011 at 2:58 PM ^
Why all the hate? Co-ed hallways (with a remarkably out-of-whack girl/guy ratio) and a lack of RAs (2 per building) were kind of awesome...
November 8th, 2011 at 4:22 PM ^
When did you live there?
For me there were about 6 or so girls in the entire Baits II Conger House building that were "normal-ish," and that's probably an overstatement if anything. I was in the basement, and my 8 person hallway was pretty cool, but it seemed like pretty much no one else in that building was willing to be social.
EDIT: that said, I made a few good friends in Baits, but based on my experiences visiting friends in other buildings, it just wasn't nearly as social/as fun of a place to live. The buildings also smelt like my grandmother's apartment.
November 8th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
There were plenty of reasons, but #1 for me was the bus. I live in West Quad this year, and just not having to take the bus every day makes it a way better dorm. Plus WQ is more social, closer to stuff, nicer rooms (for me anyway), etc.
November 8th, 2011 at 4:56 PM ^
I graduated in December, so I scored a last-minute Baits I room to hold me over my last semester. As an engineering undergrad, it was convenient. As a social person, it was miserable. I went the entire semester without ever interacting with the person living next to me.
November 8th, 2011 at 5:24 PM ^
I lived in the Burlodge for three years (ended up making my way to the hill (MoJo) for my senior year). I actually really liked Bursley. It was a lot different than Baits though. I mean, Baits was essentially grad student apartment housing. It lacked any sense of a community that your traditional dorm has. The bus was sort of a pain during the frigid Ann Arbor winters though.
November 8th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
Man, you graduate 9 years ago and the whole place just goes to hell...
Sorry to see Bates go, but it may be for the best - my Dad was one of the first residents in Bates years ago, so it definitely was on the older end of the spectrum.
November 8th, 2011 at 5:54 PM ^
I bet at least some of the buildings get converted into practice rooms or offices. As it stands today the SOM building is perpetually short of practice and rehearsal space. Building the Arthur Miller Theatre (the green cube) took the musical theatre kids out of the equation, but the building is still short of space. Baits I would be the chillest practice building ever. I made reeds in one of the common rooms. I got drunk in there freshman year (and had adventures in Bursley, Baits II, and Northwood).
Otherwise, would it be too much to ask the U to resurface the %$(^-ing tennis courts!? Seriously, the cracks are at least 2 inches wide on the court surface and have been since at least 2006.
November 8th, 2011 at 6:05 PM ^
North Campus is for weirdos.
November 8th, 2011 at 6:42 PM ^
Yeah, Baits 1 sucked, but I would be EXTRA pissed if I had to live in Northwood as a freshman! This year they had to put a lot of freshman up there, and next year its going to be even more. Talk about awful..
November 8th, 2011 at 7:01 PM ^
With Baits unexpectedly closing in addition to the scheduled East Quad closing next year, Northwood I-III will be almost entirely freshman next year.