The previous two summers Morey Hall’s third and second floor bathrooms have undergone renovation. However, the first floor bathrooms, are not being renovated. First floor residents, Emily Beckman and Lexi Micek gave their insight to the problems and fixes needed for Morey’s first floor bathrooms.

While showering, Beckman and Micek both experience sudden changes in the water’s temperature.

“The showers never stay one temperature and it makes it very inconvenient to take a nice shower as it goes from hot to cold,” Beckman said. “When it gets really hot, it burns my scalp almost, so I have to step out of the water.”

According to Beckman, the showers take a long time to return to a normal temperature. She claims to have reached out many times about this issue.

“I have written it on the maintenance board many times,” Beckman said. “They erase it, and they don’t do anything.”

Another concern Beckman addresses is bugs in the shower stalls.

“There’s dead bugs all over the ceilings like someone has smushed them and tried to kill them and they’re just there,” Beckman said. “It really is just disgusting, and there’s little gnats that are alive. When you turn the shower on they just kind of go flying.”

Privacy and safety are a concern to both Beckman and Micek. In the first floor bathrooms, rather than doors that lock, there are curtains used for both the toilets and showers.

“We are the only bathroom that I have seen on this entire campus that has curtains for not only the showers but for the bathroom stalls… It makes me feel a little unsafe,” Beckman said. “Because anyone can just open the curtain, or take a peek. And the curtains don’t close all the way. There’s always a two-inch gap”, says Beckman.

Micek agrees with the concerns Beckman expressed about having curtains instead of doors in the bathroom and shower stalls.

“I also don’t like how it’s all curtains. Every other bathroom in this building has doors, I don’t know why we can’t have doors,” Micek said. “It would be a lot more convenient and I would feel a lot more comfortable with doors, I feel like we should have a lot more privacy given to us.”

It can be difficult for Beckman to find a good time to shower since only two of the four showers are working.

“Two out of the four showers are not working in this entire semester so far,” Beckman said. “Not to mention, of those two showers, only one person can shower at a time because there is one changing stall. If someone is in there you really don’t have any other option. The other day, I was so ready to take a shower, and someone was in one of the good showers, so I go in the other ones to check them out. No water comes out of either of them. So I just waited for someone to get out.”

To get insight from a residential life member, Pete Rizzo, the Director of Residence Life addressed some of these concerns. Rizzo touched on the fact that only two of the four showers are working.

“We contacted facilities and they went out and looked at them and addressed them, but I haven’t heard anything since then,” Rizzo said.

Rizzo has also been aware of the fluctuating temperatures of the showers and has taken action to fix such a problem.

“A few weeks ago the facility services went in because there was a complaint about temperature, and they went and checked all the restrooms,” Rizzo said. “They said that they addressed it, at the time the shower was basically less than 100 degrees and they amped it up, so now it’s 110 or more, whatever it should be. They went and addressed that, but I haven’t heard anything since. What I can do, I’ll put a work order in and have them re-look at that again.”

Rizzo is also planning on taking action to reduce the number of bugs in the showers.

“I haven’t heard of that, we can have them look at it,” Rizzo said. “I know that we have had an unusually warm fall. And I know the bugs are out in full force, which doesn’t help. What I’ll do is I can put a work order in and have them look at it.”

Pertaining the curtains, Rizzo shared the future plans for Morey’s first floor’s bathrooms.

“Coming up this summer, the first-floor restrooms in Morey are going to all be redone. And so as part of that process, they’ll have the doors like second and third floor,” Rizzo said.