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[[Category:Student Housing]]
West College is the Mother of all College Buildings. It is the first, and the finest. Technically a row house, due to its location along the "row" with former frat houses, West College is the perennial home of a great number of thesis seniors, especially science seniors, due to its central location in the [[Science Quad]]. West College was built in 1790, just before the founding of Williams, and was destroyed by fire in December of 1950. Reconstruction within the old walls was soon begun, and it was readied for occupancy by the fall of 1952.
In the 2003 [[Housing Draw]], however, the powers that be turned some rooms in West into doubles, which, coupled with the 2002 rule that you cannot singly pick into a double until that last ~10 picks in the rising sophomore class, altered the composition of West slightly. The West doubles could not be picked by seniors (seniors ''rarely'' pick into doubles), were not picked by juniors, and ended up going to the lowest pick sophomores -- who were able to pick in alone got them as singles. This fact became one of the grievances against housing draw that year, but the doubles remained.
