News Editor Tom Ciccone shares his less-than-pleasant experience living in Centennial Hall and his appreciation for the power of petitions.
Living in Centennial Hall this semester was definitely worse than I thought it would be. The bathrooms are never cleaned, the internet always glitches and for months I was awoken three hours before my alarm by the sound of jack hammers at the construction zone where the new education building is being constructed.
So I wasn’t surprised when Residential Education and Housing decided to grant Centennial residents a 20 percent better probability of receiving a housing lottery timeslot.
I’m sure there are students who live in New Residence, Norsworthy, Decker and, hell, even Eickhoff who have their own words to rant about their living conditions. Still, the truth is Centennial was a disaster this semester.
On top of the negligent nature that cleaning services has treated all the communal bathrooms with, multiple acts of vandalism have made the living conditions of Centennial borderline health hazardous.
During one weekend a student, or students, left fecal matter and vomit all over the floor of a shower stall in the men’s floor’s bathroom. It wasn’t until Tuesday that the mess was cleaned up, so some people actual had to shower a couple of feet from festering human defecation.
Every Tuesday morning, I walk back from The Signal’s production office, after having worked for about 20 hours straight. As I take a bitter, cold shower, I often find myself reminiscing of the days I lived in Cromwell. Oh, how luxurious those freshman memories were.
I can understand if everyone wants a better chance at housing like Centennial residents do, but then again, Centennial residents were the only students on campus to formally petition ResLife about the inhumane living conditions that Centennial obviously disintegrated into.
If anything, you have to admit that when a lot of people work together over a serious problem, the bureaucracy sometimes listens. In this case, that’s exactly what happened.
There are plenty of problems with the other dormitory buildings on campus, but Centennial residents have been dealing with some seriously irresponsible building maitenance.
And the whole reason why housing is so tight this year is because of Cromwell renovations. I say, it’s about time. Next year they should fix Centennial too. Or knock it down.
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I lived in Centennial last year and the living conditions were similar. The BAs were awful at their jobs, we had bats, vomit stayed in a bathroom stall for a weekend, and we had construction that was just as irritating. However it would be incredibly privileged to call the living situation “inhumane.” That is hyperbole. It’s not the nicest building, but rather than make petitions and demand an unfair advantage in the housing lottery in a sparse year for upperclassmen, my friends and I dealt with it. We created a sense of community and held our own events and socialized with each other. I’ll never forget the bacon football we made in the oven, that was awesome. There were so many people out for that, and we had fun with it. You should be making the best of an poor situation, not complain about it.
Oh really so centennial was the only building that had to deal with construction? I seem to remember being woken up at seven every morning for the first few months of last semester because of the construction going on outside of ABE. It was literally right in front of my window. Did I complain? Did I get an unfair advantage over everyone else? No. I had bad luck with the lottery this year but it wasn’t because anyone else had an unfair advantage over me. It wouldn’t be right if I had one over anyone else.
Anonymous
MY rant!
Some College students generally like to live like pigs,
and that’s an insult to pigs!
This is a college not a farm!
They put shit in the showers. They clog up the johns.
They punch out the ceiling rip stuff of the walls.
Someone see them do this crap! They don’t care and
won’t turn them in!
Just want someone to wipe their ass!
and tuck them in!
Sees that the hot water was left running.
Not their problem until they need it!
Then the complaints go in.
You should have a hall a shame!
Then you would know who to blame!
It’s your college too!
You know what to do!
Just Give a Damn!
End Of Rant!
Anonymous