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Page 3 • Friday, November 15, 2002
Taking care of business
Custodial crews face the good, bad and ugly of campus clean-up
By Kelcey Rieger
THE BATTALION
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Although it is often overlooked,
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s essential to keeping campus
tuildings and dormitories clean.
“Recently, we had to clean some
raffiti off the walls and other areas
fSouthside,” Green said. “It is
ncidents like that, pranks and what-
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The best thing for
students to do to
help us would be to
prevent incidents
from getting larger.
“I didn’t realize it at the time, but a couple of
rears ago when I was cleaning one of the halls,
was witnessing the events that led up to the
jnurder of a student,” Green said. “I was clean-
hga student’s room, going in out, and I noticed
IVvllu stu dent was chatting online.”
T Green said the student, 20-year-old Kerry
Kujawa, was chatting with someone he
Believed to be a woman. Green said it was
later discovered that the “woman” was actually
a man who later met and killed Kujawa.
A typical day, however, can be somewhat
redictable. Green said a full workday begins
arly and typically ends in the late afternoon.
“A typical day for a member of the custodi
al staff beegins around 7 a.m.,” she said. “We
sually follow our basic cleaning schedules
until about 3:30 in the afternoon, unless there
has been a major accident.”
Green said she thinks students often take
the custodial staff’s work for granted.
“Sometimes we have students thinking, ‘We
pay your salary, so we expect you to do that,’”
Green said. “There are usually a couple stu
dents who take this attitude, but they don’t
seem to understand we are sometimes short of
staff and must ‘team-clean.’ We will get every
thing done, just not on the regular schedule.”
Brenda Jackson, supervisor of the Northwest
Campus Custodial Crew, said she enjoys her
job and notices students’ appre
ciation for the custodians.
“There is one student who fre
quently brings flowers to the
office, as well as other students
who just bring gifts, to show their
appreciation and respect for the
job we do,” Jackson said.
According to Jackson, Moses
Hall has the most incidents for
which the custodial crew is needed.
“Although they have
improved, the (Moses Hall) resi
dents still do things that are
unnecessary that create huge
messes,” Jackson said. “But it is
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dents urinating in water fountains and probably
the most senseless stunt — a skunk in the dryer.”
Linda Taylor, supervisor for the Northeast
Campus Custodial Crew, said she has seen an
improvement in resident life. However, as a
10-year employee with the University, Taylor
said some things never change.
“Of course we must deal with the dead ani
mals around our area,” Taylor said. “There is
also the infamous shaving cream on stairways
outside the dorms. Students have shaving
cream fights outside of their dorms, and we get
to clean up the leftovers.”
According to Taylor, some of the worst cleanups
are not inside the residence halls, but outside.
“The pebble gravel that is all over campus is
the worst to deal with,” Taylor said. “After stu
dents have egg or flour fights, custodians must
come along and clean up the pebble gravel. The
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In observance of the 3 rd Anniversary of the tragic collapse of the Fightin
Texas Aggie Bonfire, the following events have been scheduled. I invite
you to join your Aggie Family as we fellowship together, remember our
past and pay honor to our injured and fallen comrades.
In The Aggie Spirit,
Zac Coventry ‘02
Student Body President
Bonfire Remembrance 2002
Timeline of events
November 17, 2002
4:30 p.m. Reception at Jack K. Williams Administration Building.
Food and drink provided. Open to All
5:30 p.m. Silent Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Polo Fields.
Ceremony will conclude with Amazing Grace played
on bagpipes. Open to All
November 18, 2002
Throughout the Day Pictorial exhibit outlining the history of Bonfire on
display in the MSC Flagroom. Open to All
Students from the Bonfire Coalition for Students will be
passing out Bonfire Remembrance ribbons.
2:42
a.m.
2:42 p.m.
8:00
a.m.
Albritton Tower will toll twelve times in honor of our
12 fallen Aggies followed by “The Spirit of Aggieland”
and “The Twelfth Man.”
Allbritton Towere will again toll twelve times, followed
“The Spirit of Aggieland” and “The Twelfth Man.”
MSC LEAD program on the history of Bonfire held in
Rudder 601. Free tickets at MSC Box Office.
Open to All
(flour and eggs) get stuck between the pebbles,
and it is almost impossible to clean up.
Compared to previous years, the entire cus
todial staff and hall residents’ attitudes have
improved, Taylor said.
“The best thing for students to do to help us
RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION
would be to prevent incidents from getting
larger,” Taylor said. “Report an incident imme
diately so we can come and take care of it
before it can become an even larger problem.
This way, we can maintain the facilities and take
good care of the area you live and work in.”
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