These facilities are not only dirty, filled with graffiti, have stalls missing, some of the stalls left do not have locks and constantly plagued with female hygiene products that do not belong in the open. To make matters worse, sometimes men hung around the doors of the ladies bathrooms making it very uncomfortable for a woman to go in. However, this situation seems to be acceptable for everybody on Campus. The ladies bathrooms at a shady bar in the middle of the red district may be in better conditions that the ones at school.
Has anybody seen the used hygiene products left in the open? As per the legal definition of lewd conduct, this situation qualifies as such. What about the comments left on the walls? Does anybody care that they are very offensive and denote the quality of the students? As per the condition of the women’s bathrooms on campus, if you think that women at school qualify as "ladies" think about it again.
This gross situation means not only that women are viewed as less than second class citizens but that they are also unworthy of the most basic and elemental materials and facilities. There are double standards applied on campus and it is time that the people in charge start thinking about the most basic services instead of playing politics.
Do not tell the students that this is the result of lack of funds. Some of us read the newspaper and know that there are several problems with the management of all City Colleges. One of them is the way they "manage" their own schools grounds. As per education itself – we will talk about it later.
Claudia Lowe