I decided to go home last weekend, although there were only three days of classes and I was only on campus for a week after being home for three straight. When I came back to campus rather early Monday morning, I decided to go to the bathroom.

What I saw at that point horrified me.

There was brown stuff everywhere in the bathroom – on the toilets, in the urinals, and scattered over the floor. Having no idea and just walking in to the sight of it, I figured that someone let loose and vomited all over the place (since there was one previous incident in which someone did vomit near a toilet; we had to stare at that while using the stalls all weekend). Later on, I heard this whole brown-ness was chocolate soy milk that was deliberately splattered and sprayed everywhere by someone that was not on our floor.

Funny.

While this is a classic case of “guys being guys”, I seriously do find the nature of this quite distasteful. Not only is there brown stuff everywhere, but also, this stuff smells because it’s spoiled milk. Sure, these things are funny to the assailants and (some of) the victims at the time, but we have to think about the long term here. This is a disgusting act that should not be done, and I really don’t see any justification for it.

People have to use these bathrooms. I ended up using the bathroom on the 4th floor all Monday. More importantly than that, though, and my opinion of it, is that people have to clean these bathrooms. For janitors to have to see all that mess when they clean on Tuesday (Monday was MLK day and no school, so it counts as part of the weekend that they don’t clean the bathrooms) is disheartening. I feel like before someone makes a mess, they should think about the people that work for so long to clean it.

Sure, they get paid to clean, but why give them extra work if the handing of extra work can be avoided? If anything, think about the janitors. These guys work really hard for their families and their kids in every way possible; don’t make their lives harder.