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Vandalism Re-Visited —

By Jodie Feist

Holes and pen marks on the
-walls should not be a distin-

guishing feature, but for the
residents in Res | this is one
of the first noticeable fea-
tures as one traverses the
length of the hallways. Does
vandalism have to be a com-
mon feature that all the resi-
dents have to live with or can
something be done? The
same goes for all the mem-
bers of the student body as
destructive and malicious
vandalism takes away the
precious coin that could be
funding new scholarships, a
new gymnasium, or even a
campus pub.

Projected costs for the
repairs in Res II alone total
over 600 dollars. But wait,
that doesn’t include the new
tamper proof phone that has
been purchased to replace
the one that is conspicuously,
no longer in the elevator. So
how much does that cost?
The new phone is going to
cost 1500 dollars and has to
be specially ordered. But
cheers to you folk in Res Il
because you are doing better
than those who live in Res I.

The cost to repair the dam-
ages in Res | amounts to
three times the amount that
Res Il has __ incurred.
Senseless acts including the
holes in the walls and a squirt
of purple hair dye have
brought the building into a
state of disrepair. Res | also

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seems to have a small prob-
lem with people pulling the
fire alarms at odd hours of
the night, not only sending all
the residents into the cold at
three am but incurring a fine
as well. In an_ interview,
Housing manager Randall
Brazzoni commented that,
“More important than the
fine, what if the fire depart-
ment is coming up the hill to
a false alarm while someone
else is having an actual
emergency off the hill.”

The distinguishing feature
between the residents this
year and last year is that they
are incurring far less dam-
ages this year than last year.
Hard to believe? Both
Brazzoni and John Crooks,
Maintenance and Operations
Manager, feel they owe the
decrease in vandalism to the
high level of returning stu-
dents in residence this year.
They think that it is the
increase in building pride and
awareness that have brought
around this long overdue
shift in the costs of vandal-
ism.

The Housing office still
keeps up with the repairs to
the best of its abilities, repair-
ing the maintenance in the
suites and common areas.
For them this is justified
because it is only a small
percentage of people caus-
ing the damages. The idea
that if the buildings get run

down it will start to be a less
desirable place to live and
even less respect will be paid
to them. Brazzoni noted that,
“If we keep up the buildings
to the best of our ability we
are hoping that people will
take pride in where they live.”

Even the rest of the
University seems sparkly in
comparison to the last years
of operation. With the prob-
lem areas being the games
room behind the
Wintergarden and the bath-
room in the Agora and the
Library buildings.

The games room, which
had to be shut down for two
weeks at the beginning of the
year because all the games
were smashed open. Since
the removal of the pool table
the ceiling has fared better
than it had been before as

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offenders can no longer poke
holes in the ceiling with the
cues. Although the utter
destruction of the games
room did not cost the
University money, facilities
had to repair the walls and
ceiling where they were dam-

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the Wintergarden things
don’t go as well or as cheap-
ly.

Maintenance staff have
been fighting an ongoing bat-
tle with pen happy bathroom
goers. The cost of repainting
a bathroom stall is 100 dol-
lars a shot and at this point
the bathrooms are so bad
that only 4 months into the
academic year the bath-
rooms have to be repainted.
The sad part of this is that it
is not just the regular poetry
that decorate the walls in our

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bathrooms but a whole lot of
slander directed at the First
Nations community.
Members of the First Nations
Center expressed their out-
rage at the comments written
on the walls. Lee Edenshaw,
a First Nations student at the
University comments that, “I
can't believe that people at a
University would stoop to
that level.”

Overall, a congratulations
must be issued to the school
in general for their the pride
they have in this beautiful
facility. Continued support to
end the vandalism could
ensure that future students
can enjoy the beauty of this
campus as we all have and
put money into new campus
equipment and _ buildings
instead of repairing the old.

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