2008 Woodie Awards
College living is not what was expected
By Ginger Rae Dunbar
Issue date: 3/17/08 Section: Op-Ed
With the start of the second half of the semester, dorm life has changed. Sometimes I wonder if it is just the dorm that I live in this year or if these problems occur in the other dorms on West Chester University's campus.
Living in Sanderson Hall has been quite an experience - a really good one for the first year of my college career. I just do not see why people want to ruin it for themselves and the other hundreds of residents that paid to live there. I could go on and on about how good WCU has been, including dorm life, but I want people to hear about the problems that are occuring. Stopping these acts may be impossible, but maybe after this, the problems may be minimal.
There have been several occurrences where a resident has urinated in the elevator. I am not sure why this person decided to relieve themselves there. Maybe they really could not just hold it until they got to the bathroom. Then it smelled horrible on the elevator, until a custodian had to clean up someone else's mess. It is not right to make someone clean up something like that up.
What was worse about the situation was that we were informed by the RD that the urine could adversely affect the elevators, causing them to not be in working order. The elevators were then shut down for the day to be cleaned. That meant walking up however many flights of steps to get to your room - and Sanderson has nine floors.
There have been other problems in the hall reoccurring, including finding condoms in the showers and someone taking a "number two" on the bench in the bathroom. The pool table was also broken and therefore unavailable for playing use. This semester the pool table still needs to be repaired, but at least it is open for playing.
Along with the pool table, the ping-pong table is broken. It was not just the net that came loose or anything like that; the table is broken into two separate parts. In high school, gym teachers told us not to lean or stand on the tables. The reason being was that the tables cannot take that much weight and will collapse inward.
Living in Sanderson Hall has been quite an experience - a really good one for the first year of my college career. I just do not see why people want to ruin it for themselves and the other hundreds of residents that paid to live there. I could go on and on about how good WCU has been, including dorm life, but I want people to hear about the problems that are occuring. Stopping these acts may be impossible, but maybe after this, the problems may be minimal.
There have been several occurrences where a resident has urinated in the elevator. I am not sure why this person decided to relieve themselves there. Maybe they really could not just hold it until they got to the bathroom. Then it smelled horrible on the elevator, until a custodian had to clean up someone else's mess. It is not right to make someone clean up something like that up.
What was worse about the situation was that we were informed by the RD that the urine could adversely affect the elevators, causing them to not be in working order. The elevators were then shut down for the day to be cleaned. That meant walking up however many flights of steps to get to your room - and Sanderson has nine floors.
There have been other problems in the hall reoccurring, including finding condoms in the showers and someone taking a "number two" on the bench in the bathroom. The pool table was also broken and therefore unavailable for playing use. This semester the pool table still needs to be repaired, but at least it is open for playing.
Along with the pool table, the ping-pong table is broken. It was not just the net that came loose or anything like that; the table is broken into two separate parts. In high school, gym teachers told us not to lean or stand on the tables. The reason being was that the tables cannot take that much weight and will collapse inward.
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FichenDich
posted 3/19/08 @ 9:55 AM EST
It brings to mind the hilarious hijinks of besotted revelers from my days in the Army. This likely is a sign that alcohol abuse is occurring. Good luck dealing with it. (Continued…)
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