A Walk in Our 'Shoe : the history of Ohio Stadium

(Image: Ohio Stadium kitchen for dorms, 1934) In exchange for reduced fees -- $3 a year for housing and $2.50 a week for food -- students committed to six hours of work each week in the dorm. This ran the gamut from washing dishes and serving meals in the West Tower’s third-floor dining hall, to reporting and producing the residential newspaper. Accommodations were spartan. Thirty army bunks filled each residential floor; lacking lockers, bureaus, closets or chairs, students hung their clothes from ropes suspended from the overhead radiators. After dinner each night, the dining hall was cleaned and converted to a study hall. Demand remained strong through the 1930s; successive outbursts of construction in 1938 and 1939, once again supported by the WPA, expanded capacity to 400 men.