Showers and sinks; the new toilets at Winthrop University
Winthrop Sanitary Issues
Tate Walden
9/7/19
Fall 2019, began as usual with a new class of freshman. Class of 2023 is amongst the largest class compared to its previous years with the total of students being around 1100. With the boy to girl ratio being 60 to 40 as opposed to its usual 70 to 30, class of 2023 had high hopes. However, problems in the residence halls of the freshman class became the talk.
Margret Nance is one of the two all girls Residence Halls on campus. A student found human waste in one of the shower terminals and reported it to her RA late August. The staff decided to discuss things in a floor meeting to address this situation. However, the incident spread across social media and became a campus wide joke.
Margret Nance Residence Assistant Muntaria Blanding said that the matter of social media was talked about in a staff meeting. "We are trying to make a community and you're just making fun of our residence halls and we really try hard to make these residence halls better for everybody else." The social media accounts are seen as defamation of character across the Winthrop campus.
Students began to question whether or not this was a prank or an accident. Blanding said, "I think they have their own problems, I don't think they would have done this as a prank." After the floor meetings conducted by the Resident Assistants there were no more reports in Margret Nance.
However this was not the case for other dormitories on campus.
In Richardson Hall is was reported multiple times that a student defecated in a sink on the 8th floor sometime in September. The word spread after meme pages, on the social media platform Instagram, began to poke fun at the matter. A fine was was placed on students on the 8th floor to encourage the student who committed the crime to come forward. Julius DeMunn, a freshman in Richardson Hall, said, "everyone did not get fined. It was more of a way to tell people that if its someone on this floor you're getting fined, but to my knowledge they believe it was no one on the 8th floor."
Julius found out about the situation from a Winthrop group chat. A resident on the 8th floor saw the feces in the sink and told the rest of the students that were in the group chat.
As of right now the student has been moved to another Residence Hall and the Residence Assistance and students of the 8th floor are not allowed to talk about the situation further. Residence Life will continue to monitor the situation to benefits the freshman experience.
Tate Walden
9/7/19
Margret Nance is one of the two all girls Residence Halls on campus. A student found human waste in one of the shower terminals and reported it to her RA late August. The staff decided to discuss things in a floor meeting to address this situation. However, the incident spread across social media and became a campus wide joke.
Margret Nance Residence Assistant Muntaria Blanding said that the matter of social media was talked about in a staff meeting. "We are trying to make a community and you're just making fun of our residence halls and we really try hard to make these residence halls better for everybody else." The social media accounts are seen as defamation of character across the Winthrop campus.
Students began to question whether or not this was a prank or an accident. Blanding said, "I think they have their own problems, I don't think they would have done this as a prank." After the floor meetings conducted by the Resident Assistants there were no more reports in Margret Nance.
However this was not the case for other dormitories on campus.
In Richardson Hall is was reported multiple times that a student defecated in a sink on the 8th floor sometime in September. The word spread after meme pages, on the social media platform Instagram, began to poke fun at the matter. A fine was was placed on students on the 8th floor to encourage the student who committed the crime to come forward. Julius DeMunn, a freshman in Richardson Hall, said, "everyone did not get fined. It was more of a way to tell people that if its someone on this floor you're getting fined, but to my knowledge they believe it was no one on the 8th floor."
Julius found out about the situation from a Winthrop group chat. A resident on the 8th floor saw the feces in the sink and told the rest of the students that were in the group chat.
As of right now the student has been moved to another Residence Hall and the Residence Assistance and students of the 8th floor are not allowed to talk about the situation further. Residence Life will continue to monitor the situation to benefits the freshman experience.
So are showers the new sinks around here? Apparently a student couldn't make it to the toilet. Happens to the best of us.— New News (@TW29042284) October 7, 2019
Twice in the same building! This time around in the sink...— New News (@TW29042284) October 7, 2019
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