BALMY CLINTON: ACTIVITIES FOR A WARM UPSTATE NEW YORK DAY!

By Ashley Kolpan ‘24

When former and current Glenview residents responded to the phrase “Only in Glenview…,” students offered images of horror movie settings, Mariah Carey music, 6:30 AM fire alarms, and rampaging rats and deer. Although a mixture of truth and fiction, these statements overlap with Glenview’s campus reputation as an insane—and often unideal—location to live. In addition to referencing Glenview’s distance from the rest of campus and the lack of ping pong or pool tables in the common room, students compared the small box-shaped building to a trailer and its stretching corridor with bright lights to a hospital or psychiatric ward.

In terms of living conditions, current resident Pete Dillman ’26 noted the dorm is overall clean, but he noticed a mushroom growing in the men’s shower. Former resident Keshav Dinkar ’24 recalled a period of daily fire alarms, motion sensor lights waking up students during the night, and a one-time flooding leading to the dorm’s GroupMe updating to “Bristol Pool 2.0.”

“With the dorm flooding, with the alarms going off ten times a day, I feel like if there were rats running around in the toilets I would say ‘Only in Glenview,’” Keshav said. “Or if a deer started eating my Chinese food. That would also make me say ‘Only in Glenview.’”

Keshav acknowledged that faculty and staff fixed these problems after the first several weeks, and he also said the negatives of Glenview are “overblown.” After all, for former resident Connor Whynott ’25, he remembered Glenview not for its location, appearance, or maintenance issues but for its “tight community.”

“Everyone’s in one hallway, so you get to see people all the time,” Connor said. “And there’s only one common room with one kitchen, so you run into people a lot.”

Students recalled making friends from Glenview movie nights, meeting up in the common room and having instant mac & cheese,