community bath and half double rooms with connecting bath. There are two double rooms with a private bath on each floor. Jester also has several triple rooms and single rooms throughout the hall. Finally, Jester houses a significant number of students in supplemental housing spaces at the beginning of each semester. These rooms are study lounges made to house four students and are generally so popular that it's hard to get students to move out of them when permanent spaces become available. Jester Center also houses the Learning Center, the Center for African and African-American Studies, an Engineering, Communications and Natural Sciences advising office, the Career Exploration Center and many classrooms. It is not uncommon for students to live and attend classes within Jester. The Jester East front desk offers students the option to check out DVDs for forty-eight hours at a time. Jester houses one large computer lab in Jester West, where residents may write papers, finish homework or complete projects. Urban legends According to student folklore, the structure was designed by an architect who specialized in prison design, specifically women's prisons due to the shower heads being placed fairly low (folklore c. at least 1983). A true fact is that Jester once had its own ZIP code, 78787; this was changed c. 1986. Currently, the University as a whole makes up a large part of the 78705 ZIP code, and Jester residence hall serves as a polling place for Precinct 148 in Texas Congressional District 21. Jester Center was occasionally featured—particularly in panning the dorm's dining facilities—in artist Berkeley Breathed's comic strip The Academia Waltz, which was published in The Daily Texan in 1978-79, when Breathed was a UT undergrad. The strip was the predecessor to Breathed's famous Bloom County comic. References External links Map: Photo and UT Location map Dining facilities available in Jester Center UT Learning Center University and college dormitories in the United States University of Texas at Austin campus University and college buildings completed in 1969 1969 establishments in Texas