The Department of Music is an area not well-known for its great bathrooms, and the "practice room" bathrooms on the second floor of Tietjens hall are no exception.

There is much to dislike about this pair of bathrooms. Their décor is unpleasantly trippy and uninviting, with unpleasant orange-colored stall partitions and a loud black-and-white tile pattern leading to irritating retinal over-stimulation. Indeed, the bathrooms' ambiance is not merely unfriendly, it can be almost frightening. Aesthetic unpleasantness is not the only irksome facet of these restrooms' design; bad sinks and inconveniently high mirrors present a further annoyance to patrons (diminutive and otherwise) of these blatantly ugly bathrooms.

Not only are the practice room restrooms mired by the poorness inherent in their conception, but they are usually dirty and in need of maintenance (the men's room seemingly spends most its existence with a broken toilet seat).

Between deficient ambiance, lingering dirt and odor, poorly-planned facilities, and a perpetual state of disrepair, it would seemingly be fair to say that there is nothing to recommend the practice room bathrooms. Indeed, this is true for the most part; there is one aspect of the bathrooms that may make them worth the trip: scrawled at the end of my notes for this bathroom in my reviewer's notebook are the words "good graffiti." I will leave to the reader the question of just how redeeming the practice room bathrooms' graffiti is.