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Custodial staff cleans up Cabrini by Gina Roswel_l __
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staff writer
After a typical Thursday night on a college campus, like Cabrini, the sight of excess trash is common. Does anyone ever stop to think about who has to clean that mess up? The custodial staff of the college works day and night, seven days per week in order to keep a clean atmosphere for students, faculty, staff and visitors. The director of facilities, Howard Holden, oversees approximately 20 custodial workers employed by the college. According to Holden, six additional trash containers were placed outside residence halls, but with the impending weather, the effect of these dumpsters is not yet accurately known. A trash hauling service comes through our campus on a daily basis. The New Residence Hall has a trash chute where students drop their trash into a 12-yard trash compactor. This particular trash storage is emptied three times per week. The open trash bins that used to be outside each of the houses were all removed because of squirrels climbing in and removing
the trash, dragging it through campus. In place of these bins, two-yard dumpsters were placed in the parking lot on Residential Boulevard in front of each house. Woodcrest and Xavier trash containers each hold six to eight-yards of trash and are hauled daily by the custodial staff. The apartment complex holds an eight-yard dumpster in its back parking lot where students and custodial staff dump trash. Depending on when student events are held, trash can exceed what Holden referred to as an "average" trash stream. "Some houses are, at times, trashed." With a chuckle, he added, "Thursday evenings usually produce a fair amount of trash." Because of this, Holden feels that "students can be somewhat careless" when it comes to properly discarding their trash. Perhaps the reason that some students may not properly discard their trash is because for the houses, the trash dumpster is down the hill in the parking lot, taking up much-needed parking spaces.
-continued on page 2.
photo by Katie Reing
Campus custodian Cynthia Boone cleans a window on campus.
Grace Hall face lift causes wrinkles
photo by Justine DiFilippo
Above, workers are resurfacing the roof of Grace Hal/. While the workers are retiling, leaks have formed, creating an annoyance to the offices below, according to those who work in Grace Hal/.
by Shannon Kl=n=g,....._ __ _ assistant features editor
Buckets and trashcans line the hallways and plastic bags are tied to the ceilings in an attempt to catch any water from the many leaks inside Grace Hall. These are just some of the eyesores that have been noticeable on campus since the beginning of the roof renovation to the old building. All this, not to mention the road blockades and the hassle of having to drive from the Dixon Center all the way
past the cafeteria, Woodcrest and the library just to get to the apartments or the other side of campus. So what exactly is the story about this ongoing project? According to Howard Holden, director of facilities, "The roof project has been delayed due to a manufacturing glitch with the tiles. They are supposed to fit together like pieces of a puzzle, but the first shipment we received had problems. We sent them back and received new tiles, but it set us
back 40 days." Holden said that the weather has also had an impact on the roof renovation since winter, of course, is not the best time for projects such as these. When the recent snow that we had melted, the water found leaks that were already present in the roof. All of these leaks caused problems and at the very least inconveniences for most of the offices that call Grace Hall home. Debbie Speck, secretary in the admissions office, said, "Two tiles fell from
the ceiling onto the ambassador's desk in the front office. The chairs were soaking wet and we had to have them cleaned. It's such a big burden and the clean up really fell on me. A tile also fell on a box of publications that we were going to give to prospective students." The admissions office wasn't the only office to have problems.
-continued on page 3.