Cleanliness of residence halls a concern of students, staff

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There are schedules which housekeeping is supposed to follow, according to Holden. Light cleaning, like taking out the trash and cleaning the bathrooms, is supposed to be done every day. Larger cleaning jobs are done on a weekly basis, and large jobs, like cleaning the rugs, is done monthly.

Holden meets with the housekeeping once a week and Arthur Jackson, the contracted cleaning service company, once a month-to discuss the status of the facilities, and housekeeping inspects the buildings weekly to make sure adequate facilitoes are being kept.

Aging houses and care- less residents add to the mess.

The ceiling of room 14, in the basement of House Seven, flooded when the bathroom upstairs clogged on Sunday, Oct. 12.

"I woke up to hear dripping water," Lindsey Mirigliani, a senior early childhood development and elementary education • major, said. "It wasn't like drip, drip. It was pouring." Mirigliani caught the dirty toilet water in a trashcan until a Public Safety Officer, a facilities technician and a plumber arrived.

Facilities is usually there "within the day," according to Holden.

She and her roommates scheduled a time with housekeeping to clean the carpets, as well.