Fear and loathing in residential housing
Washer and tumbler trouble The mouse and the house
Students frustrated with laundry facilities Lookout House struggles with mice
KATELYN CLEMENT
kmclement 16@ole.augie.edu
Numerous students
over the past several
weeks have complained
of trouble with laundry
facilities on campus, and
the problem does not ap­pear
to have a simple solu­tion,
according to students
interviewed by the Mirror.
Many students have
raised issues with the
washers in Solberg Hall
and Bergsaker Hall which
leak detergent onto the
clothes, causing oily
stains. The stains can be
washed out, but having to
add another rinse cycle is
tedious work. The washers
in freshmen dorms have
Grace Goble
also leaked water onto the
floor multiple times, leav­ing
puddles for people to
slip in. The machines don't
always turn on, and the
dryers will sometimes de­stroy
clothes.
"I will put all my
clothes in [the washing
machine] and it won't
start, it's just dead:' Grace
Goble, a freshman in Sol­berg,
said. "And the dryers
are just not gentle. I have
to take my nicer clothes
out [because) they will
make rips:'
One recurring problem
students have highlighted
is people taking their wet
clothes out of the wash­ing
machines and put­ting
their own laundry
in, leaving the stranger's
wet clothes in a pile in the
laundry room.
Hosea Kost, a sopho­more
resident in Gran­skou
Hall, said that it is
rude because dryer cycles
are longer than the rinse
cycles so the washing ma­chines
are backed up until
dryers open up.
Kost also suggested
that a lot of the problems
See LAUNDRY, page 3
KATELYN CLEMENT
kmciement16@ole.augie.edu
Signing up for a theme
house sounds like a lot of
fun and a way for students
to give back to the commu­nity.
However, the students
living in Lookout House
are paying more than what
they bargained for. Since
the students moved in two
years ago, they have been
overrun by mice.
The signs of a mouse
infestation appeared soon
after they moved in. Now
they hear scurrying and
scratching in the walls of
the house while they sleep.
The mice pop out of no­where
and run across the
floor while the disgusted
ShiAimont
students are cooking or do­ing
homework.
Shi Almont., one of the
residents of Lookout, said,
"We hear them in the trash
cans under the sink some­times
.. Also, a couple weeks
ago, my roommate had ba­nana
bread sitting on her
nightstand in her room.
She woke up in the morn­ing
to find it laying on the
ground with a hole chewed
through it:'
Katelyn Derby also ex­pressed
her distress about
the rampaging mice. Derby
said, "We've had clear evi­dence
of mice in our house
for months with no real im­provement:'
Derby said. "It
makes it difficult at night
knowing that there are little
rodents crawling around
when you sleep:'
The students contacted
Campus Life about the
situation, but, Almont said,
Campus Life set up numer­ous
traps to no avail. The
mice still roam the house.
"The mice have lived in
Lookoutmuchlongerthan
we have- the house be­longs
to them now:'
Mice are not the only
See MICE, page 9
Student Union Project committee formed, more plans on the way
Administration takes first small step in the long process
to construct the new Student Union
KYLER BAIER
krbaier 14@ole.augie.edu
The administration has taken the first initiative toward
the next major project on campus: The Student Union
and Morrison Commons renovation project.
Before Thanksgiving break, the Student Union Project
Committee (SUP) was formed to draft concrete plans for
the renovation of the Morrison Commons and the con­struction
of the Student Union.
While talks and planning are still in the exploratory
stages, there are some details that have been discussed
and others that certainly need to be addressed. One such
detail that needs addressing is the expansion of workout
space available to students.
Recent surveys show that, since 2010, more students
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reputation
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are using cardio equipment, and as enroll­ment
numbers continue to rise, space has be-come
a major concern to students, prompting many to
purchase memberships at off-campus fitness centers.
. According to a survey taken in spring of 2015, 23 per­cent
of students have an off-campus gym membership.
Lindsey Taft is one of these students. Taft rates her sat­isfaction
level with the Elmen facilities a two out of five.
Because of the lack of space, Taft said, "I go to a new
gym now that has everything I need, and I never have the
problem of waiting to use a piece of equipment. I know
many other students seek out gyms that require travel­ing
in a car rather than walking to the Elmen to work
out. It shows that the Elmen is neither their, nor my, first
choice [for exercising] even if it is closer and a part of our
tuition:'
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ult shows that the Elmen
' is neither their, nor my,
first choice [for exercising]
even if it is closer and a
part of our tuition:'
The increas­ing
dissatisfac­tion
with Elmen
Center facilities is not
only a concern of the
students, but also a
concern of the El­men
staff.
Mark Hecht, the
director of recreation-
- Lindsey Taft
a! services, has said that to deal with congestion in the
workout facilities, the new facility will have to be larger
See SUP, page 3
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