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Anonymous UMD student's Instagram-based campus bathroom critiques offer dry-humored commentary
"It's been, like, 100 or some years," the UMD senior said in a recent phone interview, "and people still don't have omni-directional showers."
The dry-humored and anonymous voice behind the popular niche Instagram account UMD Bathroom Reviews celebrated the site's one-year anniversary last week with a colorful cake served on Minecraft snack plates. A public service that started in mid-September 2019 with a few shots of a third-floor bathroom in the Labovitz School of Business — "slightly cold inside" — averages just more than a post a week in places on campus and off, but always with ties to the university and its students.
The anonymous voice behind UMD Bathroom Reviews called this spot at the Tweed Museum of Art "truly a top tier UMD bathroom." (photo courtesy of UMD Bathroom Reviews)
The News Tribune allows anonymous sources on a case-by-case basis. In this case, the critic's anonymity is part