March 19, 2007 12:46PM 

# Is This a Log Cabin? 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

---

<a class="js-popover-trigger cursor-pointer popover-trigger" data-bs-placement="bottom" data-bs-trigger="click" id="popover-trigger"> 

SHARE 

</a> 

![Photo from Washington Post](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/download-remote-images/www.cato.org/172395922072/not_log.jpg?itok=HpL6o5cc) 

Belmont College guard Andrew House [complained](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701433.html) that the NCAA assigned his team to this hotel, [the historic Brookstown Inn](http://www.brookstowninn.com/) in Winston-Salem, N.C. He objected to the old, 19-inch television sets in the room and said that the hotel felt more like a log cabin.

Isn’t it great to live in a world so rich that a 20-year-old college student thinks a beautiful, historic four-story hotel is like a log cabin? Next year, no doubt, players will complain about being assigned to hotels with old Ethernet connections that you actually have to plug your laptop computer into, like pioneer times.

##### Related Tags 

[General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy) 

[![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 
This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).