[Alumiyum]

Yeah nothing on that list is near what I dealt with freshman year. I LOVE my alma mater, but they are lacking in their care of historic or just plain old buildings. I lived in the same dorm my sorority hall was on until I got my bid and moved up. The sorority halls tend to be better kept than the rest of the dorms...cleaner, more cheerful, etc. But we had:
-Hot/cold air units with mold in the vents in every room.
-No way to individually control room temperature. The HRL office controls whether you have hot air or cold air. So in the spring and fall when the temperatures fluctuate wildly you're just SOL.
-You could smoke (at the time I lived there, not now) in your room if you turned on the air and blocked the bottom of the door with a towel. You could also smoke on the balconies. Obviously, this would cause smell issues.
-At the time we had barely working laundry facilities with outrageous charges for use. I've been told they're now new machines and are free, so kudos to them for that.
-HRL would let summer soccer camps use our sorority hall (and all of the others) because it's nicer. The camp kids wrote on walls, kicked holes in them, left soccer balls up in the ceiling tiles, wrote on the wardrobes, spilled things...everything you can think of. HRL doesn't fix that damage.

My parents told me when I got to campus I would have to live in the dorms until my senior year. I moved out of the dorms with their blessings at the end of my freshman year. I was also sick almost the entire year and was fine once I left. This happens to a LOT of people and my theory is that it's related to the OOC mold.

There are two mens' dorms that were far worse.

Also as a sidenote, Tutwiler at UA gives me the creeps. And it's gross. So gross.