Video: Trustees Tour UCA

The cubicles are made of cheap chipboard. Students wear goloshes at their desks when it rains because sometimes the floor is covered in about three inches of water. A ceiling tile is missing.

On Friday afternoon, Board of Trustee members crowded into what is commonly called “the Dungeon” to get a first-hand glimpse of offices graduate students use at the Lewis Science Building.

Like the rest of the building, the space is small, gritty and a little smelly.

“They don’t need to be using this at all,” Trustee Kay Hinkle said.