C W Post College - Opticon Yearbook (Greenvale, NY)

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3rd ANNUAL BEAUTIFUL DORM ROOM CONTEST Most resident students don't realize that by the time they graduate, in addition to their. degree, they will also be graduating with a minor in interior decorating. After all, a room with bare walls and floors lunless you're living in Brookvillej and a few desks, chairs and beds, does not provide for a very homey atmosphereg unless you like the feeling living in a jail cell. For some students, a throw-down rug and a few posters are suitable. For others, a bar, couch, or a reclining chair is a must if they are to live comfortably in their home away from home. ln order to fit all these luxuries in one room, students have been design- ing and constructing their own lofts and bunk beds. The building of lofts has become so commonplace in room is springs and manyfresi- enormous qmpuntfof time to decorate their rooms, Ther Bea ' - - ful Dorm Room CQQ.ggst was orgaf. nized three years ago so that students could display their rooms and com- pete for prizes. This years ntest is part of the Cereal i ompetition, jointly sponsored by the Summit, Opticon, Pioneer and the Housing Office. The rules are simple. Rooms are divided into loft and non-loft and are judged on space charm l says ho

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awarded to an overall winner in each category and to individual winners of each quality in both categories for a total of eight winners in all. Three judges inspect each room and score them accordingly. This year over 40 rooms have been judged by Steve Medwid, William Patterson and Har- ley Abrams. And the winners are. Andy Arenth and Stephan Gassner of Riggs 7 decided that two rooms are better than one so they designed a split-level loft where one could actual- ly walk around on the top of the loft rather than crawl. This concept made them the overall loft winners. Color coordinating a room can be tough but Carol Anne Schmitz and Maureen Russo of Brookville l28 found a way and the judges gave them the overall prize in the non-loft category. For added effect, the girls put in a little corner table with chairs that gave the room a Ginger-Bread look. If you live on the top floor of Post Hall, most of the rooms are smaller and have slanted celilings. Despite this handicap, Pat Wilcox and Mika lnatome of Post 302 grabbed the space utilization prize in the non-loft category. Other non-loft winners were Ed Lenane and .lim Mulvey of Brookville 46 whose combination of stacked milk crates, bunk beds and assorted plants gave them the charm award. Although there appears to be only one bed in Queens l lO, it is actually a high rise bed that unfolds into two beds so the uniqueness prize went to 112