Letter to the Editor: Bathrooms

By Contributor
September 27th, 2011
Section: Letter to the Editor - Opinions

Dear Editor,

I have been puzzling lately over the abysmal condition of the restrooms on campus. It’s gotten so bad tat the Oviatt Library that, from top to bottom, there isn’t a usable men’s restroom in the place. Is this a visceral example of the results of our state’s savage budget cutting at the CSU? Is it that mend are even more disgustingly barbaric than I thought possible? Or is the truth somewhere in between?

The horrific condition of our bathrooms may be a signal of our incipient decline at CSUN, and maybe in our nation as a whole–to third world status. Perhaps you can assign a reporter to figure out how corners of our campus are becoming hellholes unfit for human use.

Paul Russel Laverack
Journalism Student

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  • Anonymous

    It’s not the problem of CSUN’s budget.. at least it isn’t the /major/ problem. It’s the inherent problem with ‘public’ bathrooms; because none of us are its owner we rarely care to clean up after using them. Compare the state of a public restroom with your own home bathrooms.

    This doesn’t mean that all massively used restrooms fall to this trap. Private ones like those in the Americana mall are beautiful and clean.

  • Old Glory

    They do stink since they went to the waterless urinals. But I wouldn’t call them abysmal. Go to a public high school bathroom before you call ours abysmal.

  • David the small-L libertarian

    You didn’t describe the conditions but you can blame your fellow students for being such uncaring selfish slobs.  Aside from using paper towels and perhaps toilet paper, you’d never know I had been in there after I visit a public latrene.

    • http://twitter.com/caninestein Stephanie Colman

      I don’t think students hold all the  blame. I regularly use a bathroom in University Hall, largely comprised of administrative offices, and am frequently surprised and saddened by its condition.  The counter tops are almost always flooded, and crumpled paper towels litter the counter and floor.  

      • David the small-L libertarian

        Fine then:  CSUN employees are uncaring selfish slobs as well.