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OT: Roble to turn 100 next year and goes sustainable - JJJ - 04-12-2017

Quote:Venerable, ivy-covered Roble Hall will turn 100 in 2018. Roble resident fellow Jeffrey Ball hopes that, in its second century, the dorm known as Stanford University’s “La Grande Dame” will stand as a symbol and embodiment of sustainable living.

Ball is a writer on energy and the environment, scholar-in-residence at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, and a lecturer at Stanford Law School. In 2016, he organized and helped launch the Roble Living Laboratory for Sustainability at Stanford (ROLLSS). In the comprehensive and evolving program, students – through projects, classes, workshops and events – are attempting to make Stanford’s oldest continuously operating dorm a hub of sustainable learning and action.

“Roble is an iconic representation of the societal challenge of taking an existing structure and making it sustainable,” Ball said. “This place could be a platform to engage deeply in the complexity of these issues.”

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/04/11/making-stanfords-roble-hall-sustainable-second-century/

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Re: OT: Roble to turn 100 next year. - 2006alum - 04-12-2017

I lived in Roble during the summer I did Summer Research College. I always thought it was the dorm that had aged the most gracefully of all the older dorms. It has a wonderful sense of history, beautiful location, and iconic style, but still functioned well as a dorm. Definitely one of my favorite parts of campus.

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Re: OT: Roble to turn 100 next year and goes sustainable - Papa John - 04-12-2017

I had a great time living in the Bible Suite in 1982-83.

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