The restrooms at the UC-Satellite are barely usable.
Soap dispensers are broken or unfilled. Paper towel holders are regularly either broken or empty. Waste bins contain overflowing garbage that spills out onto the floor. Cockroaches prowl the halls; it gets worse at night.
Apparently, this does not stop students from using the bathrooms — far from it.
Most days the floor of the men’s and women’s bathrooms are slick with urine and covered with dirty toilet paper. Sometimes even clothing and food are thrown around. It is enough to make truck stops look sanitary.
The filthiness is not confined to the UC-Satellite. It is in the Science and Engineering Classroom Building, Agnes Arnold Hall and most of the restrooms in the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library as well. That’s only the beginning of a long list.
This is not meant to disgust or offend anyone; it is merely a truthful representation of the state of campus facilities. We are not trying to say the maintenance staff is responsible, either. After the current budget went into effect, 11 maintenance positions were eliminated.
The few workers we have work hard every day to keep our gathering spaces usable. There is simply not enough manpower to clean everything, and custodians cannot be everywhere at once.
Tier One is an admirable goal to focus on; it is something that every university should aspire to. But what does it say about a school when more than $100 million is spent on research, yet students can not even wash and dry their hands before lunch?
No one should have to search in multiple buildings to find a clean restroom — it is not supposed to be like a treasure hunt.
Students, treat your facilities with respect. This is a place of higher learning, and it should be cared for accordingly. People have to clean up your waste when you refuse to.
Administrators, it is your job to make sure the buildings are stocked with supplies and the correct amount of support staff. Cleanliness is not something to strive for — it is mandatory.
I loved this editorial. There are some valid points. No one wants to use messy restroom facilities or be required to search for suitable ones. However, think about this. Everybody's restroom is clean and usable until someone messes it up. When the custodians do clean the rooms, all it takes it that first unconscientious person to use his or her untidy habits and mess it up for everyone else. I don't think the unclean facilities are a total reflection of the cleaning staff, but of the person that use the restroom. They don't flush, they don't toss trash in the garbage cans, they don't help to keep their own facilities usable. We all have a part to play in keeping UH a Tier 1 status school. Students, workers, faculty, all of us.
I loved this editorial. There are some valid points. No one wants to use messy restroom facilities or be required to search for suitable ones. However, think about this. Everybody's restroom is clean and usable until someone messes it up. When the custodians do clean the rooms, all it takes it that first unconscientious person to use his or her untidy habits and mess it up for everyone else. I don't think the unclean facilities are a total reflection of the cleaning staff, but of the person that use the restroom. They don't flush, they don't toss trash in the garbage cans, they don't help to keep their own facilities usable. We all have a part to play in keeping UH a Tier 1 status school. Students, workers, faculty, all of us.
agreed. they should do a story titled "tier 1 rating should mean tier 1 behavior". we should all try to keep the entire campus as nice as we want it to be
UH has always been super gross. We can't bring food into the library anymore either — only recently did they start enforcing that (and for good reason).