By Evan Collotti (Whetstone Contributor)

Delois Howard wakes up early on a Tuesday morning and gets ready for her classes for the day just like any other normal college student. But her routine is a little bit different than most.

“Every morning I have to check the weather online to see how I should dress,” Howard said. “Not having a window is a big problem because there is no way to tell what it’s like outside.”

She is just one of the many residents of Malmberg Hall’s 16 interior rooms.

Malmberg Hall is one of the more luxurious dorms on Wesley’s campus. They include a carpet floor, shower, toilet, refrigerator, and two sinks in each room.

However, Malmberg has two types of rooms to accommodate students; a standard two-person dorm located on the outer part of the building, and a more spacious four- to six-person double dorm in the shape of an ‘H’ located in the middle of the building. There are 56 outer rooms with windows and 16 interior rooms without windows in Malmberg.

Whether it’s not having a window, the all-white walls, the constant heat, annoying neighbors, lack of hot water, or lack of phone service, residents claim that the interior rooms have been driving them crazy.

“What really irritates me is having no window because I can never tell what time of day it is and it makes waking up early a challenge,” Steven Penland said. “But another problem is having multiple neighbors to your room. It can get very loud.”

“I have a bunch of problems with the room, the main one being that there is no window in it. I can never tell whether its day or night,” Deona Edmonds said. “It gets really hot in here, there is no light in the kitchen, and a lot of times there is no hot water.”

Many Malmberg residents find themselves moving out of these rooms after a semester or two.

“One of the main reasons I was so excited to be a resident assistant was to get out of that room,” Williams R.A. Fred Sottnick said. “The no-window thing really drove me bonkers.”

Some students’ parents have also complained.

“During parent’s weekend, my mother came to my room and was in shock that we have been living like this,” John Wolgamot said. “There is no way to bring in fresh air so the room is constantly hotter than the Sahara, and if there happens to be a fire blocking the doors of our room, I would be as good as dead.”