BATHROOM DOOR

Restroom door removed

Boys bathroom door removed, students confused on why

Ben Hamilton hamilben000@hsestudents.org

The boys bathroom in the CCA lost its door and both the paper towels and dispensers on Sept. 18, leading many students to wonder what happened. Though there has been a push in the anti-Juul campaign, vandalism is actually the main culprit for the loss of utilities.

“I went into the bathroom to wash my hands and there were a couple of guys already in there,” junior Sebastian Magers said. “I noticed they had shoved a whole roll of paper towels into the toilet.”

Rolls the size supplied in the bathrooms can run anywhere from $40 to $60 according to head custodian Joy Kiskaden. On top of that, there are 30 student bathrooms each with at least two paper towel dispensers meaning Rust to fill all of the dispensers once it can cost anywhere from $240 to $360.

“The paper towel rolls were not initially set out for the students to use in whole at the beginning of the school year,” assistant principal Steven Loser said. “The dispensers in that bathroom were broken within a month.”

The paper towels were not originally set out according to Loser. Within a month of the dispensers being replaced, they were broken.

After the dispensers were broken the rolls were set out next to the sinks, which ended up also being ruined. The privilege was then revoked. “The decision was then made that the door should be removed as a form of accountability,” Loser said. “ If a student doesn’t know who could walk through the door, they are less likely to destroy the bathroom.”

There is less activity in that bathroom now. “I don’t really feel comfortable using that bathroom,” senior David Thompson said. “No one can see in, but it feels like it is in the middle of the cafeteria because the sounds are loud even in the bathroom.”

This may soon be remedied though, as there are already plans for the bathroom.

“There are discussions happening now about bringing back the door,” Loser said. “I can say that the door is not as big a deal as the paper towels and the dispensers.”

With the door returning, some students wonder when the other objects will be brought back as well. However, Thompson does not think that is really an issue.

¹I have a lot of respect for the custodial staff and the actions that were taken is really to make their lives easier because students are unwilling to help out,” Thompson said. “If the students are only going to destroy the bathroom, there is not a huge need to spend money and sanity on trying to restock stuff no one¼s using.”