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[[Category:Student Housing 2.0]][[Image:Currier.jpg||right||thumb||Currier Hall]]Currier is a dormitory on the [[Berkshire Quad]], unique both in architecture and traditional inhabitants. Three floors rise above ground and one, despite being called the basement, is below ground on the quad side but opens into air on all other sides. It is one of the core [[Odd Quad]] buildings, in that, along with [[Fitch]], it traditionally houses upperclassmen of the [[Deviant]] and [[WARP]] culture type, and others who enjoy their company.

''For Currier floor plans, see WSO/plansCampus Life' s [http://wso.williams.edu/plansdean/campus_life/house?id=7 currier.html Currier page].''

The common areas on the top three floors are the negative space amidst the odd positioning of Currier's rooms. The center halls of the second and third floors have no common space of their own at all; the first has an enormous room that is typically the house gathering space. On the north and south ends of the buildings, common areas take a different shape depending on the floor. The second floor's are quite awkward, and defy description. See the plan [http://wso.williams.edu/plansdean/campus_life/floorplans/floor?id=24 currier_2.jpg here], or just imagine a rectangular room with a big bite taken out of the top.

Rooms in Currier are high-ceilinged and generally large, with the most coveted facing north and featuring balconies that, unfortunately, nearly abut [[Route 2]]. Champion among basement quarters is B11, the gargantuan double in the northwest corner, which has an old (sealed) fireplace above which is fixed a large stone face.

==Inhabitants==By class year, Currier is probably the most diverse house on campus, both because of its range of quality of room and the range of reasons that drive people to live there. On the one hand, some of Currier's rooms are first rate, desirable for purely their own sake. On the other, Currier has a recent history of being [[Odd Quad]] in nature, and Odd Quadders have been willing to live in any kind of squalor to be near each other, quite willing to take the less desirable center rooms in Currier for the quad's unique social scene. Though Currier has earned a reputation as the younger Odd Quad dorm (sophomores and juniors to Currier, seniors to [[Fitch]] and [[Prospect]] [[crow's nest|crow's nests]], it always holds a large number of people from other social groups. The layout of Currier, with its many fire doors and stairwells that strongly divide the space, allow for a a compartmentalization of groups if those groups will it, while spaces such as the ballroom and first floor common room allow larger bodies to meet. Currier's residents have made their dorm the primary home for these activities in the past and present:

* '''[[BridgeClub]], ''' which enjoyed a renaissance of players in early 2004. * '''[[Chocoholics]],''' chocolate eating society that has bounced between Currier and Fitch since its founding by Rachelle Hassan '03.* '''[[Storytime]].''' Never a club, but a regular meeting of students who would gather to hear Chris Holmes '03 read a tale from the balcony of his room C 21, which he had traded with Nina Trautman '03 to get specifically for the purpose of storytime. Chris would later join with Jesse Dill '04 to found the [[Deviants]], and the storytimers were the first core members of the group.* '''[[WARP]].''' It was once faily commonplace for Currier to spew [[bop-swording|bop-sworders]] out onto the quad to make battle, and the ballroom was an ideal site for WARP's LARPs (live action role play).

<!--Please see talk page about the bathroom fact!-->*With two bathrooms and about 18 residents per first-through-third floor, Currier features the highest resident/bathroom/resident ratio on campus.*Currier Ballroom once housed the [[WARP]] stash: a collection of weapons, shields, and other armaments used for [[bop-swording]].