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University Housing. It involves get
ting together 300 people — induding
regular deaning staff and temporary
student and non-student employees
— to dean a total of 1,750 residence
hall rooms in 45 halls.
And in the few days that they have
to dean, interesting things tend to
crop up in the 'lost and found.' Mem
bers of the deaning staff have seen it
all. Take for instance radios, vacuum
deaners, socks and underwear.
"You get a handful of condoms
every once in a while," janitor Mar
gene Kethcart said, while combing
through a hallway in Earl Complex.
In the past, they've also found a
large blow-up doll, plane tickets, a
live python hiding in the mattress of
a vacated bed and a purple dildo.
"We try very hard to write down
the room number, the hall number
and that we found it during close
down so that we can get their person
al items back to them," Hahn said.
Last week's move out might have
been tamer than that of past terms,
however.
"When there's something unique
that's found we usually hear about it.
Everybody talks about it," said Nan
cy Wright, director of fadlities for
University Housing. "We haven't
heard that this year."
Hahn said last week's cleaning
yielded less trash than previous
terms, crediting the staff at each hall
for checking to make sure that stu
dents cleaned up after themselves be
fore leaving.
Still, students leave behind a lot of
ten intentionally, Hahn said. The Uni
versity donates those items to local
charitable organizations. The items left
after last week's clean-up will be do
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University Housing employee Kevin Davis works on cleaning the residence halls in
Hamilton Complex.
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Amber Nysten (left) and Donna Buchanan, summer housing department employees,
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nations during the last weekend of
the term. She stressed that they made
donating goods an option rather
than simply sending them to the
landfill.
"It really helps them to have cloth
ing and shoes that the college kids
don't want," Hahn said, adding that
the bins were placed on nearly every
floor of every residence hall during
that weekend.
Cleaning crews are under an even
tighter deadline, given the various
campus activities that start soon after
University students leave. Last week
more than 2,500 people flooded into
the dorms to attend various summer
camps and seminars, coming in
groups ranging from three people at
tending a physics camp to more than
1,000 for a football camp.
The football camp, for instance, start
ed last week — less than two full days
after Finals Week ended. That meant
the cleaning staff needed to dean 1,050
rooms in less than 48 hours.
"We're making a transition from
an academic season to a conference
season," Hahn said. "We switch from
being a home to a hotel."
Jared Paben is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
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