Furnald Hall - Revision history

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 * Uncommon for people to leave their doors open (relative to other first year dorms).
 * Doubles are fairly small.
 == Pictures ==

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 {{Infobox reshall
 |Name=Furnald
-|Image=Furnald.jpg
+|Image=[[File:Furnald.jpg]]
 |Built=[[1913]]
 |Renovated=[[1996]]

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 == Facilities ==
-* All rooms have carpets, air conditioning.
+* All rooms have air conditioning and are carpetless.
 * Each floor has a spacious lounge with a TV and fully-equipped kitchen.
 * Each floor has 2 large bathrooms (1 male, 1 female).
-* Single laundry room located in basement
+* Single, fairly clean, laundry room located in basement.
-* Two elevators, one located at each end of the main corridor.
+* Two elevators, one located at each end of the main corridor. They are unreliable and slow.
 === Rooms ===
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 * Air conditioning.
 * Lots of closet space.
-* Basically the only place where you can get a single as a sophomore.
+* The best place to get a single as a sophomore.
 * Ideal choice for independence-minded first years who want lots of privacy. (See below for why Furnald is a bad choice for most first years.)
 * Floor lounges have newly-renovated kitchens, so you can actually cook.
 === Disadvantages ===
-* Until its more recent designation as a primarily first-year residence hall, Furnald had a reputation for being relatively quiet and antisocial.  By [[2009]], that reputation was all talk, though to this day it does indeed remain.
+* Until its more recent designation as a primarily first-year residence hall, Furnald had a reputation for being relatively quiet and antisocial.  By [[2009]], that reputation was largely talk, though to this day it does indeed remain.
 * Kitchens are less useful for first years, since they are required to be on a [[meal plan]].
 * Layout is not conducive to intra-floor socializing, since stairways and elevators are on the north and south ends of the hall, which somewhat isolates the north and south sides of the floor from one another.

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 * Ideal choice for independence-minded first years who want lots of privacy. (See below for why Furnald is a bad choice for most first years.)
 * Reliable elevators.
-* Floor lounges have kitchens, so you can actually cook.
+* Floor lounges have newly-renovated kitchens, so you can actually cook.
 * Dubs.

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 *[[Federico García Lorca‎]] (1929) - Spanish poet, Room 617 <ref>http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2005/09/27/lorcas-new-york</ref>
 *[[Ted Gold]] (1965-1967) - one of the [[1968 protests|1968 protest]]ers and member of the Weathermen terrorist group
 == Facilities ==

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 ===Famous former residents===
-*[[Federico García Lorca‎]] (1929) - Room 617<ref>http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2005/09/27/lorcas-new-york</ref>
+*[[Federico García Lorca‎]] (1929) - Spanish poet, Room 617 <ref>http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2005/09/27/lorcas-new-york</ref>
-*[[Ted Gold]] (1965-1967)
+*[[Ted Gold]] (1965-1967) - one of the [[1968 protest]]ers
 == Facilities ==

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 ===Outside===
-This is the handicapped entrance to the basement. Interesting but not useful. The security danger of taking this tunnel outweighs visiting it. Go to the basement using the north staircase and walk to the south end where you will notice a camera and a way-overkill grate. Columbia really doesn't want people coming into the dorms without swiping. If you are lucky enough to happen upon this grate while it is unlocked, you will find it is nothing more than a short ramp up to the random camera-monitored door on the [[Broadway]] side of Furnald. Not that there is a very high security risk here. If you are lucky enough to find the grate unlocked and you enter, you ''will'' be noticed by the card-swiper. Campus security ''will'' come to find you, but they have no chance of discovering you if you hide. Cover your face so the camera doesn't catch it and don't take too long. Wait 20 mins after swiping in before coming here so you're forgotten by the swiper. Hide in one of Furnald's floor lounges for 20 mins before walking out the front door.
+This is the handicapped entrance to the basement. Interesting but not useful. The security danger of taking this tunnel outweighs visiting it. Go to the basement using the north staircase and walk to the south end where you will notice a camera and a way-overkill grate. Columbia really doesn't want people coming into the dorms without swiping. If you are lucky enough to happen upon this grate while it is unlocked, you will find it is nothing more than a short ramp up to the random camera-monitored door on the [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] side of Furnald. Not that there is a very high security risk here. If you are lucky enough to find the grate unlocked and you enter, you ''will'' be noticed by the card-swiper. Campus security ''will'' come to find you, but they have no chance of discovering you if you hide. Cover your face so the camera doesn't catch it and don't take too long. Wait 20 mins after swiping in before coming here so you're forgotten by the swiper. Hide in one of Furnald's floor lounges for 20 mins before walking out the front door.
 == References ==