This struggle was a minor plot of the movie Hidden Figures, where the black scientists at NASA were forced to walk across campus to find a bathroom. People watching the movie must have thought to themselves, “how terrible, glad we don’t do that now”, yeah…

On a side note, this has a somewhat obvious but expensive solution. Build more accessible, single-use bathrooms. VT spent $20 million on renovating the baseball field, there are new buildings going up across campus – invest a bit in renovating bathrooms.

They should also make much stricter standards for new building construction. Every new building should include single-use, accessible facilities.

On a side-note, they need to do a much better job advertising the existence of existing bathrooms. There is a nifty google map, but almost nobody has heard of it:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1IM4GyPr-p9bo8zW_MEavm8guyyk&hl=en_US