The Robert Scott Small building used to be the main C of C library.  It was renovated to be offices and classrooms and such, and now houses the math department where I work.  There’s a back stairwell in this building that used to be for emergency use only: You could push the door handles from the inside and it would open while sounding the fire alarm.  You couldn’t push a handle to get in from the outside.  This made sense for a library, because you want people to have to go through the front door and remember to check out any books they might be carrying.  But this makes no sense for offices and classrooms.  The back stairwell is actually kind of convenient if you’re entering this building from the direction of either science building.  After the college renovated the building, they disconnected the fire alarm but took all the handles off both sides of these doors.  We could sort of use the stairwell.  We could open the doors by grabbing some protrusion with our fingertips, then prop them open with a door stop. We complained. Then they put in new doors, with handles on both sides (yay!), but installed them with the slot windows at the bottom.  (Sorry, I don’t have a picture).  So we complained again.  Now the doors are installed right side up.  However, I came across this one day:

Someone aparently got tired of the door slamming, and filled the frame with little pads like you would put on furniture or picture frames to keep them from scuffing the floor or wall.

This isn’t the only door problem.

The door to my office wasn’t installed just right.  You could frequently push it open, even if the knob was locked.  I got a few notes from campus security about my door being open at night, probably where the housekeeping staff didn’t realized you had to pull it and nudge it just right to make it latch closed.  So I put in a request.  Some guy showed up to fixed it.  I figured he’d take the door off, put a shim in somewhere, etc. and fix it.  Na.  He grabbed the door, and groaning and straining, pushed it and pulled it and twisted it, and bent the hinges and door frame a bit.  And it latches and stays locked most of the time now.