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Today we’re going to be looking at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, specifically the Southwest campus. This is located on 3501 First Avenue in Evansville, Indiana.

Keeping in mind that there are multiple bathrooms, which are all, essentially, the same thing, I will not be reviewing each restroom separately.

Odor – 4.
The bathrooms, in general, do not have a bad odor. There are times when you will get one, but they maintain attempt to maintain the idea that people actually have to be in there. However, there is nothing pumped into the room to lessen the smell that exists. Any smells linger, and sometimes linger is not what we want these things to do.
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Cleanliness – 3.
Generally speaking these bathrooms are clean. You will, however, usually find a clogged toilet and paper towels on the ground. I’ve found urine in the seat of a stall, too, but this isn’t as frequent as one might expect from a college. The floor also seems to always be wet.
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Appearance – 5.
These are pretty average for bathrooms. The stall provides enough comfort within itself that you don’t feel claustrophobic, but at the same time the stall is a color that doesn’t reflect light very well–and these rooms can get rather dark sometimes.

The stalls have mild vandalism: scratchings of names into the toilet-paper holder or the walls and things like that. Expected, but still detracts.
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Functionality – 4.
It seems like there’s always one bathroom that’s out of service, or one sink, or something. Irritating.
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Comfort of Toilet Paper – 2.
As I said, this’ll show up a lot. It actually feels thinner than regular mass toilet paper. Horrible stuff. Horrible.
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Number of Stalls/Urinals
Ivy Tech has three floors, with two bathrooms on each floor. Each bathroom has between two to three stalls and two to three urinals.
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Ivy Tech also has a communal sink in each bathroom, though there are three separate faucets and a mirror for each one. Some of the bathrooms have automatic paper-towel dispensers, some of them have regular ones. Most of them also have an automatic air-dry. They also use a foam soap instead of a liquid.

All of the toilets are automatic flush.

My main issue that the bathrooms seem to be placed at awkward locations in the building. On the third floor, for example, the two bathrooms are on completely opposite sides of the floor. I honestly mean “completely opposite sides”. -4 and 4 opposites. Which wouldn’t be so bad, except the distance between the two of them makes it rather difficult to make it to either of them without fear that whatever you were wanting to there to do might happen before you make it.

The second floor’s “lower level” bathroom is placed a nice location, but easy to pass up due to it being right next to several other doors that are essentially marked in the same way. The ridiculous part is the “upper level” bathroom is seriously just a few steps away. These bathrooms have two doors that one must open before they get to the bathroom. I don’t understand why.

On the first floor the bathrooms are about the same distance from the main commons. Which isn’t bad, since it’s a large section and one can cut through that if need be. However, that’s also it’s main problem. It’s a large section that one has to walk through. They also don’t have doors–that is, the ones in the front hall. By that I mean instead of having a door, they have a large wall that curves out so that no one needs open a door, but can just go through this mini-corridor. You can’t see anything, though, so it’s fine.

I prefer the bathroom on the second floor. It’s used less than the others, despite being on a busy floor, and is generally the cleanest. Those on the first floor are frequently dirty by comparison and the third floor is usually more broken-down (though that’s not to say its broken. I just mean more clogged up as opposed to dirty).

And this has been a public restroom review. Tune in next time when we review… a bathroom.