Bakersfield College students are fed up with the bathrooms that they use on campus. According to BC students, the bathrooms are old, ugly, unclean and disgusting.
BC student Tamara Ludy described the bathrooms as ancient.
“The floor and doors are old, the structure and all the equipment is, too. They need to rebuild,” said Lundy, who commented that a reflection cannot be seen in the bathroom mirrors, and said that the graffiti on the doors needs to be repainted.
With all of the description of the bathrooms, students tried to pick out the cleanest and most accessible bathrooms.
“I go to the one in the Child Development Center because it’s the cleanest one,” said Lundy.
BC student Angie Lopez also said that she uses a specific bathroom. “I go to the one in the financial aid building because it’s closer to my classes.”
Lopez explained that the bathrooms are “really disgusting.”
“There’s paper everywhere, and it’s dirty,” she said. “It shouldn’t be like that. We all use it, so we should all keep it clean.”
Although BC students say that the bathrooms on campus are unclean and ugly, there are some students who feel that bathrooms are not that bad.
Student Brittany Bailey commented that the BC bathrooms are better than the ones in high school.
“They’re not horrible. I know which ones to go to,” she said. Bailey said that she goes to the bathroom in the Fine Arts building, and the one near the Campus Center because there is a vanity with an extra large mirror.
“But I like the one in the Huddle because it reminds me of the Harry Potter movie; it’s really big and always stocked,” said Bailey.
From a female’s perspective, it seems as though everyone knows which bathrooms to use. The situation is seen differently from a male’s perspective.
Student Nick Villatoro explained that the bathrooms are not that bad. “They just smell. They’re pretty clean compared to high school, but people still tag and scratch up the walls.”
Villatoro said he hasn’t really heard anything about the women’s bathrooms. “I try to stay out of there.”
Some students just say, “No!” to the use of a campus bathrooms in general. Student Edgar Nava has chosen this method.
“I’ve never been in,” said Nava, who explained that he doesn’t like using public bathrooms because he said they’re always dirty and people have been known to urinate on rolls of toilet paper.
Despite this Nava admitted that he might break down someday and use a public restroom.
The newly appointed Head of Maintenance and Operations, John Griffith, realizes the importance of bathrooms on campus for both students and faculty. Griffith explained that one of his main goals is to improve the quality of restrooms on campus.
“I plan to formulate an input committee involving faculty as well as students who want to participate in feedback with their concerns on parts of campus that need to be looked at, including restrooms as well as other parts of the campus,” Griffith said.