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'''Morris A. Schapiro Hall''', popularly known as Schapiro, is an undergraduate residence hall that mostly houses juniors in singles and sophomores in doubles. It has yet to earn the nickname "The Schap." It's on 115th St between Broadway and Riverside Drive. Schapiro was built in 1988 for $18m, making it the second newest residence hall after [[Broadway]]. When it was completed, Schapiro enabled Columbia to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for all 4 years for the first time in its history. | '''Morris A. Schapiro Hall''', popularly known as Schapiro, is an undergraduate residence hall that mostly houses juniors in singles and sophomores in doubles. It has yet to earn the nickname "The Schap." It's on 115th St between Broadway and Riverside Drive. Schapiro was built in 1988 for $18m, making it the second newest residence hall after [[Broadway]]. When it was completed, Schapiro enabled Columbia to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for all 4 years for the first time in its history. | ||
Revision as of 22:53, 18 March 2007
| Schapiro | |
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| Built | 1988 |
| Renovated | |
| Population | 415 |
| University Residence Halls | |
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Morris A. Schapiro Hall, popularly known as Schapiro, is an undergraduate residence hall that mostly houses juniors in singles and sophomores in doubles. It has yet to earn the nickname "The Schap." It's on 115th St between Broadway and Riverside Drive. Schapiro was built in 1988 for $18m, making it the second newest residence hall after Broadway. When it was completed, Schapiro enabled Columbia to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for all 4 years for the first time in its history.
Schapiro singles usually go to rising seniors, and rising juniors with a lottery number better than 1600.
Contents
Facilities
Each floor has a lounge and kitchen. Schapiro has 17 floors that accommodate 245 singles and 85 doubles. Schapiro also has several music practice rooms, a laundry room, and access to the Schapiro Black Box Theater.
Floors
- Floor 17: faculty-in-residence penthouse.
Rooms
- 55 doubles
- 245 singles
- 30 walk-through doubles (05 and 07 line)
Advantages
- 04, 20 and 22 lines on floors 10-16 are large singles with south views onto 115th St.
- Nice first floor lounge and skylounge.
Disadvantages
- North-facing rooms on lower floors are in a shaft so they get little light.
- 02-line: very small walk-through doubles, with noise from elevator, next to the trash chute.
- 07-line: small walk-through doubles, again with noise from elevator.
- Watch out for room 902.
- Nauseating combo of pale neon lighting and peeling pure-white paint.
- Ben Teitelbaum's frequent hallway jaunts in boxers and flip-flops.
- Malfunctioning heating system.
- No modular shelves.
Photos
Double (room 605), view 1
Double (room 605), view 2
The largest single, view 1
The largest single, view 2
The largest single, view 3
The largest single, view 4
Floor lounge, view 1
Floor lounge, view 2
Floor kitchen
First floor lounge
View out of the first floor lounge
Skylounge
View out of the skylounge, north
View out of the skylounge, north-west
View out of the skylounge, south
Floor plans
Floor 2
Floor 3
Floor 4
Floor 5
Floor 6
Floor 7
Floor 8
Floor 9
Floor 10
Floor 11
Floor 12
Floor 13
Floor 14
Floor 15
Floor 16
Map
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