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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.

A large skylight once spanned nearly all of By class year, Currier is probably the ballroom's ceiling; alasmost diverse house on campus, for concerns about both because of its integrity it has long had black platforms laid over it so range of quality of room and the range of reasons that you would not even notice this feautre unless you knew drive people to looklive there. During daytimeOn the one hand, howeversome of Currier's rooms are first rate, large french windows along the east wall cast ample light across the room to mirrors on the far wall designed to mimic desirable for purely their transparant sistersown sake. Even On the real windowsother, however, offer no relief from clammy air during Currier has a hot dance: they are alarmed and cannot be opened without special dispensation from recent history of being [[SecurityOdd Quad]] (which can in nature, and Odd Quadders have been willing to live in any kind of squalor to be obtained by prior arragmentnear each other, and is worth it quite willing to take the less desirable center rooms in Currier for dances and hot days)the quad's unique social scene.

The ballroom Though Currier has seen it all; events of all kinds that Williams students have dreamed up over earned a reputation as the yearsyounger Odd Quad dorm (sophomores and juniors to Currier, and every year student groups clamor seniors to reserve the space for more. Arguments between those with scheduling control over the space (currently [[House CoordinatorsFitch]]) and those who wish to use [[Prospect]] [[crow's nest|crow's nests]], it have flared in the past, as the ballroom is always holds a space that the campus depends on, but inhabitants of Currier are frequently large number of a mind to control its use, as noise people from events are quite audible to the basement roomsother social groups. Thus does The layout of Currier's ballroom find herself building , with its many fire doors and stairwells that strongly divide the space, allow for a a history compartmentalization of torrid flings with events of all persuasionsgroups if those groups will it, but always while spaces such as the loyal mother of the Odd Quad, true ballroom and first floor common room allow larger bodies to them in her own waymeet.

Some events known to have taken place in the ballroom are listed below: *Perennial plays and one-acts by [[Cap and Bells]], the student theater organization.*Before it got large enough to need [[Goodrich Hall]], [[Queer Bash]] was held in the ballroom.*Occasional [[contradance|contradances]], especially the ValentineCurrier's Day and Halloween Contradance, which benefit from residents have made their dorm the ballroom ambiance.*[[Sarah! Croft '04]] gathered actors to perform a number of murder mysteries -- some of which were her original works -- that unfolded primary home for these activities in the ballroom, to the delight of the [[Deviants]] past and other friends.*A resident of Currier held a private party, notable for a hired stripper, during the [[fall of 2003|Fall 2003]] -- and got away with it. ==Inhabitants==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]].