Potty Talk: Men's Restrooms Edition

The coupe de grƒce in the Courier's guide on campus lavatories, this week we brave the men's restrooms, without the aid of all-purpose cleaning gloves.

Best Cell Phone Conversations

C Building
Third Floor
Approximate location: Next to stairwell; across from room 325
Number of urinals: 10
Number of sinks: 7
Dividers: None

Cleanliness: Given the high traffic by social science students, it's surprisingly clean. Tall ceilings provide impressive wall space that would be a graffiti artist's delight, yet the walls are tag-free and are painted a pleasant shade of light blue.

Aesthetic Appeal: This looks like a movie set from some high school theme film. There are two little storage spaces behind the urinals and stalls, where you could conceal yourself if you were playing hide-and-seek.

Visitor Traffic: The main men's restroom on the main classroom floor in PCC's main building probably makes this the busiest relief station on campus. The state-of-the-art 'entrance-only' and 'exit-only' doors streamline traffic flow. At 3 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, no one was there.

Smell: The big windows probably help to ventilate smells, so this isn't a sewer, but don't expect a daisy field, especially when everyone's dropping the kids off at the pool during the morning rush hour.

Resources: This bathroom's got plenty of paper towels and toilet seat covers for your bum.

Privacy: At the time of this visit, some guy was upset, screaming into his phone about how to operate the 'LancerLink' page of PCC's website. I guess this tells us stall #9 is the ideal place to make business calls while on a potty break. On the other hand, seven urinals, and no dividers? What gives? Good thing there's 10 toilet stalls.

PCC Opinion: The restroom made Arnold Martinez feel nostalgic. "This bathroom reminds me of senior year; lots of bad memories," the history major said.

Rating: 4/5


Flagship For Longer Stays

U Building
Top Floor
Approximate location: South end of building
Number of urinals: 2
Number of sinks: 2
Dividers: Yes

Cleanliness: Like the rest of the U Building, this washroom reflects a hospital feel. It's sterile like a quarantined biohazard area.

Visitor Traffic: Do people know about this spotless oasis? Lack of trash and immaculate toilets indicate that this bathroom gets few to no visitors.

Smell: There's a strangely blank smell here.

Lighting: Cream-colored walls give off a very pleasing shade despite the usually harsh fluorescent tone. Perfect for retouching your mascara

Resources: The only thing missing is that guy from the strip club bathroom who squirts the soap into your hand and hands you the towel when you're finished washing.

Privacy: Feel free to let out all your screams of pain: there's no one around for miles.

Best graffiti line: "Are you down for the Brown?"

PCC Opinion: Jeff Mendoza, a 24-year-old marketing and communications major was taken aback the moment he walked in. "I thought, 'Oh damn, the door can open by itself.' I was pleasantly surprised," he said.

Rating: 4.5/5



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T Building
Second Floor
Approximate location: Top floor next to that big garage door that I always wonder about
Number of urinals: 1
Number of sinks: 1
Dividers: None

Cleanliness: There's not a word in the dictionary that can begin to describe how nasty this bathroom is. The combination of intense sunlight beaming through the oversized window, and discolored floor and walls, probably makes this unloading station the grossest on campus.

Aesthetic Appeal: Appeal? Maybe the interesting graffiti can take your attention away from the aesthetics.

Visitor Traffic: This bathroom gets tons of traffic: students from the journalism, graphic communications and architecture programs usually frequent this rest stop. This bathroom is beyond its capacity.

Smell: If you love the smell of urine, this will be your dream come true. Sometimes it's so unbearable, using the women's room right downstairs (when there's no women present, of course) is a better bet.

Lighting: Natural light from the oversized window shines upon the tagged-up walls and mirror, stirring up thoughts about those unattended public bathrooms near the beach that everyone has no respect for except homeless people.

Resources: There's always hand soap (that's hard to tamper with) and extra paper towels on top of the cabinet next to the entrance.

Privacy: Small size, echo-enhancing walls, and a broken toilet stall door give this bathroom almost no privacy. Get in and get out.

Best graffiti line: Think of this space as an underrated art gallery: come by and enjoy.

PCC Opinion: Marcos Barajas is willing to walk across campus to get away from this toxic restroom. "I'd rather walk to the library's because this one's depressing," he said.

Rating: 1/5