Cornell University is not for the faint of heart, or the weak of bladder. I would argue that there is a serious lack of bathrooms, or at least poor placement of existing bathrooms across many areas of campus, particularly on the Arts Quad. These are some locations where the need for bathrooms (or more of existing ones) is dire.
Olin Library Lobby
This has got to be the building with some of the highest foot traffic on campus, and yet the lobby doesn’t have a single bathroom. Picture this: there’s a cafe right in the lobby, filled with students guzzling coffees, juices and other highly laxative goodies. There are thousands of students coming from and going to class in the lobby study space. They’re usually there studying for a decently long period of time, or arriving from a different building, and need a post-class wee. These masses are faced with either a trek to the corner of the basement, or hoofing it up the stairs to a tiny, grungy, two-stalled bathroom…