The issue: PUC has reinstalled paper towels in select areas on campus for clean-up purposes.
Our stance: Pick one or the other or plan for the worst.
It is no surprise that college students can be messy. Look in any guy (or girl's) dorm, and more than a handful are sure to have dirty clothes and snack cake wrappers strewn across their floor. Throw us in a kitchen or dining area, and onlookers can only pray for the best as they watch in horror. Crumbs scatter and condiments splatter every which way as we try our best to squeeze in a meal alongside homework and rushing to classes. We are not exactly known for our timeliness and etiquette, at least on campus, so there are bound to be disaster trails leftover from our tardy tornadoes.
Be that as it may, PUC spent a few truckloads worth of dollars installing fancy hand-dryers in all of our restrooms, effectively ridding the campus of any trace of paper towels. This was not the worst move, as it was definitely admirable to promote both the saving of money and "going green." By avoiding spending on the allegedly overpriced paper towels, the campus could then distribute the money elsewhere more efficiently, be it on better computers, nicer lounges or our upcoming athletics facility.
It sounds great on paper, at least until administration is reminded that most of us are still kids. It was not that long ago that we were all crammed into overcrowded high school cafeterias, and with as much as tardiness has been railed into our brains throughout our entire education, messes made in hasty dashes to the classroom are inevitable. Few students are going to sit and clean it up when they have an impatient professor tapping their foot and locking the door right down the hall, leaving the mess to trip up any innocent bystanders hoping to fit in their own study time or get to their own classes. Without any means to clean the mess up, students waste precious time looking for another study spot or for a custodian to arrive on the scene.
Any student unfortunate enough to come across the mess is left helpless without any paper towel, more than likely left without any alternative tables to establish their study. Spilled soups and sodas soaking up half of the dining table does not exactly make for the most studious environment, but in a timely pinch, students are forced to deal until a clean-up crew arrives.
While the paper towels are not the greenest or cost-effective method of cleaning up our messes, they still seem like an inevitability, unless a bib or is included in our student fees. Dealing in the absolutes of either having all paper towels or no paper towels at all simply lead to unfortunate backpedaling and a waste of our financial resources.
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