By ALI ANDERSON
anderson@du2.byu.edu
Cinderblock walls, green appliances and shaggy carpet ... students who open the doors of their on-campus dormitories may see the same rooms their parents and grandparents once lived in.
Although recent remodeling has replaced many of the older features of Heritage Halls and other on-campus housing units, the buildings have stood on BYU ground since the 1950s and `60s.
'Heritage Halls have looked that way forever. But it was a good location because you could get to your classes quickly,' said Suzanne Hammond, who lived in Lucy Bowen Hall in 1955.
But students who have experienced life in Heritage Halls, Desert Towers or Helaman Halls may not realize that other BYU buildings housed students before the current dormitories were erected.
The Amanda Knight and Allen Halls were built for BYU students in 1938.
BYU graduate Avonell Rappleye remembers working in the kitchen of Amanda Knight Hall, where she was a resident for four years, to pay for a portion of her monthly rent. She said the room she lived in was small, but she was grateful for the opportunity to meet the 90 other girls she lived with.
Rappleye said she stayed at the Amanda Knight Hall for all four years of her undergraduate education because on-campus living was encouraged by university administrators.
'It wasn't the custom then to make students leave after their first year. They just encouraged people to come back,' Rappleye said.
She also recalls the strict curfew rules of dorm life.
'I remember that our curfew was monitored. They would lock the doors and we would be locked out if we were late,' Rappleye said.