Most on-campus residential spaces are primarily used by the students that live in the building, but Room 004 in North Wayland House serves as home to the Jabberwocks, the University's oldest a cappella group. The Jabberwocks is the only student group on campus to have space in a dormitory allotted solely for its use.
When a few of the Jabberwocks found an abandoned bicycle room in North Wayland in 1988, the group decided to invest in making it a unique space for themselves, according to Joe Lerman '11, a senior member of the singing group.
"At the time we got the room, it was just having a place where we could put all of that stuff — the keyboard, the music," Lerman said.
The room is used for rehearsals, and occasionally members' own projects and a few parties each semester.
Reed McNab '12, Wayland's women peer counselor, said she feels it is unfair that the Jabberwocks are the only group on campus with their own room, as if the University considered them "the elite a cappella group on campus."
