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Basser College, University of New South Wales
Basser College, University of New South Wales is a residential college at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Basser College and its two neighbouring Colleges, Goldstein and Phillip Baxter, are collectively known as the Kensington Colleges.
Basser College was founded in 1959, ten years after the opening of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), making it the oldest residential college at the University. It was built to accommodate students from rural areas, enabling them access to the same education as local, metropolitan students. The College is named after Sir Adolph Basser (1887–1965), a Polish entrepreneur and philanthropist who contributed significantly to the cost of the College's construction.
The College's foundational structure was designed around two central courtyards with a small one to the north, and a larger one to the south, with a balcony running around the inside of the alcoves. In the first few years, when the college was all male, the smaller quadrangle was known as the Senior Quad and the other, the Junior quad. When girls were first admitted in 1965, they occupied a section of the smaller quadrangle, hence the quads became known as the Girls' Quad and the Boys' Quad. The names echo the separate living arrangements in the College at that time; a practice which has since been discontinued.
The majority of the rooms were divided into alcoves of four rooms, with two inner rooms and two outer rooms. Originally the large outer rooms were occupied by two freshers and the smaller outer room would have a more senior student. The inner rooms were normally reserved for sophomores and seniors. Once the girls were distributed evenly throughout the whole college, these alcoves were thus affectionately dubbed 'alcove families', with two males and two females constituting each group.
The beds in Basser College were narrow (2 feet 6 inches, 762 mm wide) and had a very hard mattress.
Basser College's original building was the only college on the Kensington Campus in which every room had the convenience of a wash basin. But there was only one power-point. So if one wanted to have a heater or jug and some music, then it meant using a double adaptor/piggy-back plug or two, or a home-made patch board. Also there were no phones in the rooms. The secretary downstairs had a switch-board with 2 incoming lines. If there was a call for a student during office hours, then she would call their name on the PA system and transfer the call to one of the 2 phones that were adjacent to the stairs on level 1. At 5pm the secretary switched the incoming lines to the phones upstairs. A roster of freshers was organized. It was the duty of the nominated fresher to stay in the small common room adjacent to the phones and answer the phones and then fetch whichever student was required.
Residents generally stayed in Basser for two or three years before ending their college tenure. A student had to remain at College for two and a half years, to be named Honorary College Valedictorian.
Basser College celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 'Back to Basser' day at the College in August 2009. The original building was last used in the 2011 Academic year and was handed over to a construction company in December 2011 to be demolished and replaced as part of UNSW's major student accommodation redevelopment.
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Basser College, University of New South Wales
Basser College, University of New South Wales is a residential college at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Basser College and its two neighbouring Colleges, Goldstein and Phillip Baxter, are collectively known as the Kensington Colleges.
Basser College was founded in 1959, ten years after the opening of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), making it the oldest residential college at the University. It was built to accommodate students from rural areas, enabling them access to the same education as local, metropolitan students. The College is named after Sir Adolph Basser (1887–1965), a Polish entrepreneur and philanthropist who contributed significantly to the cost of the College's construction.
The College's foundational structure was designed around two central courtyards with a small one to the north, and a larger one to the south, with a balcony running around the inside of the alcoves. In the first few years, when the college was all male, the smaller quadrangle was known as the Senior Quad and the other, the Junior quad. When girls were first admitted in 1965, they occupied a section of the smaller quadrangle, hence the quads became known as the Girls' Quad and the Boys' Quad. The names echo the separate living arrangements in the College at that time; a practice which has since been discontinued.
The majority of the rooms were divided into alcoves of four rooms, with two inner rooms and two outer rooms. Originally the large outer rooms were occupied by two freshers and the smaller outer room would have a more senior student. The inner rooms were normally reserved for sophomores and seniors. Once the girls were distributed evenly throughout the whole college, these alcoves were thus affectionately dubbed 'alcove families', with two males and two females constituting each group.
The beds in Basser College were narrow (2 feet 6 inches, 762 mm wide) and had a very hard mattress.
Basser College's original building was the only college on the Kensington Campus in which every room had the convenience of a wash basin. But there was only one power-point. So if one wanted to have a heater or jug and some music, then it meant using a double adaptor/piggy-back plug or two, or a home-made patch board. Also there were no phones in the rooms. The secretary downstairs had a switch-board with 2 incoming lines. If there was a call for a student during office hours, then she would call their name on the PA system and transfer the call to one of the 2 phones that were adjacent to the stairs on level 1. At 5pm the secretary switched the incoming lines to the phones upstairs. A roster of freshers was organized. It was the duty of the nominated fresher to stay in the small common room adjacent to the phones and answer the phones and then fetch whichever student was required.
Residents generally stayed in Basser for two or three years before ending their college tenure. A student had to remain at College for two and a half years, to be named Honorary College Valedictorian.
Basser College celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 'Back to Basser' day at the College in August 2009. The original building was last used in the 2011 Academic year and was handed over to a construction company in December 2011 to be demolished and replaced as part of UNSW's major student accommodation redevelopment.