Ali Bajaj and Lauren Mooney discuss how they came to terms with living in a commonly stigmatized area of campus on April 27, 2023. They both said finding their own communities in Williams Village aided tremendously with their appreciation for the area. “Will Vill feels like a jail sentence, and then you make a community in your jail,” Mooney said. (Grace Ptak/CU Independent)
“It would be so beautiful without those ugly-ass towers,” asserted Lauren Mooney, sitting on a window ledge and staring out at the brown, boxlike Darley Towers blocking the view of the Boulder Flatirons beyond them.
Mooney, a freshman at the University of Colorado Boulder, was assigned to a dorm in Williams Village, a student housing area isolated from the main campus not only physically, but socially. The distance and mystery of the area have saddled Williams Village with its very own campus-wide…
