Is this the worst attempt to try and get people to go “Green”?
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I'd rather not live than try to sleep in 82 degrees
I grew up without AC and I don't recall it being a big problem, but today I don't think I could do it.
I used to work with a farmer's wife. Her husband absolutely never wanted AC on saying he needed to stay adjusted to the heat. It sounds a little crazy but has AC made us extra soft on heat?
I used to work with a farmer's wife. Her husband absolutely never wanted AC on saying he needed to stay adjusted to the heat. It sounds a little crazy but has AC made us extra soft on heat?
My wife acts like she's being burned at the stake if it hits 80. Me, I think that's just about right.
The big thing for me is AC in cars. I remember not having it as a kid, and the first couple cars I had of my own didn't have it either. I don't know if I could deal with that any more.
it’s all relative but we keep our house in the mid-upper 60s. It’s been shown that kids in particular sleep better in that temperature range (65-70). I’m all for more sleep for everyone’s sake.
The first truck I had that had AC, I refused to use it. Some how thought I was being all uppity by even having it.
People have thermostats with numbers on them? Mine just says "On/off."
When I lived in Slovenia we didn’t have air-conditioning. I got used to it. When I came back here I felt cold walking into a bank or a business. I usually have my thermostat set at 77. It cools the apartment enough to dehumidifier it. I agree with you, the most important aspect is the D humidification factor. I don’t want condensation and mold growing in the corners of my rooms.
Bank story:
About ten years or so ago, Huntington corporate did some remodeling, and part of it was that they put all of their branches' climate controls on the network (also their phones, which was a whole different headache), controlled centrally. I assume this was a money-saving measure, but the end result was that the temperature in the bank was basically a normal temperature, and not the super-cool bank temperature everyone was used to. The tellers I knew complained about it for months. The customers complained, too, but probably not for that long. I got used to it after a few weeks.
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McNutt, top floor, no AC. Awful.
In the summer, I keep mine set to a frigid 62 at night and sleep under a giant, heavy comforter and it is glorious.
Only Disco Briscoe remained A/C-less in the GOAT NW quad. This was nearly two decades ago though.
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That's interesting: were there different concentrations of in-state/out-of-state in the various dorms? I remember the Tokyo Towers, as they were referred to in the early 90's, but don't remember any other assumptions about geographic origination of dorm residents.
To be clear, I'm sure there was plenty of mingling (I had several IN guys on my floor at McNutt), but I often found that most of the out-of-state residents, particularly those from the coasts or ATL, ended up in the NW neighborhood.
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In thinking back on it, I guess I met more out-of-staters in McNutt than my high school friends in Teeter and Wright. Maybe in-staters are more in the know about which dorms are closer to classes?
My dorm had 3" of thursday, friday, saturday night puke in the floors of the penitentiary designed showers. I can't imagine it being hot in my room. .... Inhumane !
no idea, but I assume it’s heavily related to who you know and their experience. NW is closer to the sporting events, Villas, frat row, but that’s really it. Climbing the hill back up Fee lane hungover was brutal.
I def agree that the central dorms were much better situated, but I assume most of us would have found a way to enjoy ourselves regardless.
Back after the gas shortages hit and people all of a sudden were concerned about gas mileage, many would refuse to use the AC, thinking it would save them on gas. Around town, yes, but for highway driving it was better to use the AC -- the wind resistance from open windows caused more drag and gas consumption than using the AC with the windows fully closed.
Back in the 70s, Briscoe (and McNutt to a lesser extent) was where the black students from either Indy or Da Region lived. Those two also had the majority of athletes.
That was true until at least the mid-80s. Over summers I cleaned carpets in the dorms. The lounge in Reed and Wright were air conditioned, the rest not so much.
So we would run these steam cleaners, and it was hot. In Reed one year we took lunch and break in the lounge, the housing manager threw us out saying he wasn't wasting his A/C on us.
At Wright, the manager actually told us to come to her office at break/lunch and she would unlock the lounge. I lived in Wright a couple years before but no way she remembered me. Also, she was Jerrod Jeffries' grandmother.
The worst were the little buildings in Ashton. We would get to them about August 1 and those cinder block buildings had been locked tight all summer. They were hot and steamy.
Self segregation, sure.
In Wright (where I lived) all the black kids sat at the same tables together in the dining room. Always the same tables, always together.
My RA in Wright was a grad student from Africa, Ethiopia IIRC. He'd talk shit (with an accent) with the black kids when they referred to him as "ni**er": "I'm no ni**er, I'm an African. You all are ni**ers."
It was a different time. Yet in many ways, nothing has really changed.
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I think self segregation still occurs at schools across the country. Watch the TV miniseries America to Me, filmed at an ultra-progressive high school in Chicago suburbs (directed by the same guy who made Hoop Dreams). They document a lot of the same. I'm still hopeful we can figure out a way to change that in this country.
Never. Ethnic groups will always self segregate. Bosnians have been where I live for 30 years. They still segregate. Have their own coffee shops, bars, teams. The Mexicans have their own soccer league. And that's okay. As long as we all mingle and treat each other equally. Right?
Yeah me too and I can remember it feeling so good to turn the pillow over and it be cool for a few seconds.
I remember it being a problem...
Things got so miserable that some nights I'd lay on the hardwood floor (in front of a floor fan) like a dog just to get a little cooler...; fact sometimes the actual dog and I competed for the best spot in front of the fan...
Running and working in high heat and humidity never bothered me but I Hated trying to sleep in it... Stiil do.....
Dad was frugal, we where the last on the block to get AC and it took a couple of Marine pals teasing to finally leverage an upgrade to a color tv...
The trade off for the discomfort of that era was you could leave your doors unlocked and a child could roam for miles without a care or fear in the world...
Collins is a great dorm (physically). I got stuck there first semester up until close to Thanksgiving when a single opened up in Read and I moved there. If I could have lived in Collins but with people around that I had stuff in common with, I'd have taken that over Read in a heartbeat.
I would think Marines would find not having AC as a badge of honor.
Our house was very old but it had decent air flow. Open the back door, and the front window fan would pull some air through the house. It would be hot, I recall that, but it was doable. Of course back then we played basketball on blacktop on the hottest days, our bike kickstands would fall right through the asphalt. I am sure I was tired enough to sleep more than I would be today.
You are right about the feeling of safety. I walked the 6 blocks to my elementary school. Who knew when I would get home. There were two rules, my dad would not come to pick me up and if I missed dinner no one was to feed me. If my kids had come home at 8:30 after school the police would have been long called.
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I'd prefer more mingling, less self segregation. It's a matter of degrees, I guess.
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I still leave my doors unlocked in an inner-ring Chicago suburb. Drives my wife crazy.
I know it’s crazy but even today if I’m driving around town, not on a highway, I don’t use the AC. I just roll the windows down.
I had a nice 10 speed one year in college. Road it every day and never locked it. The day before the year was over some MFer stole it.
I use to have to walk to all of my classes in college, then this one day, I found a really crappy 10-speed bicycle just sitting there unlocked. I didn't think anyone probably owned it, so I just started riding it.
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