Toilets of Higher Education
A urinal (and condom machine) in Magdalene College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
The mysterious Secret Staff Toilet in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
It's room ECE 126, directly across from one entry to the large lecture hall in ECE 129. The building key (coded "EBSMA") which opens all the exterior doors also admits you to its retro and very plain interior.
Just like the nuclear reactor in the basement, the Secret Staff Restroom does not appear on the building maps.
Meanwhile, Purdue has some of the worst urinals in the world.
At left is an example from from the Potter engineering building, and below is a slightly different though still terrible design the Physics building.
Beyond the pure mystification factor (what are these things, seatless toilets?), they combine the worst of several possible features:
- Extra-high water use per flush
- Unusually high placement and large water bowl maximizes splash-back
- Privacy? What's that?
Purdue's Undergraduate Research Library is similarly plagued.
The mens room at the west end of the Infinite Hallway, room 7-107 in the Rogers Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
One mens room in the Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
A fairly high-tech urinal in the park adjacent to the campus of Cambridge University. The hand-washing water flushes it, and there is a (nearly hidden) hot-air hand drier also built in.
Not handicap-accessible, so this is not Steven Hawking's. (He is on the faculty there, in the position once held by Isaac Newton)
Also see the High-Tech Toilet page.
Handicap-accessible toilets:
Right this way
GIANT-ACCESSIBLE TOILETS:
Also right this way
On the campus of Cambridge University.
Also see
the Toiletological Signage page.
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
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