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A recommendation that High Rise West dormitory be fogged for bugs was approved by the Health Services Council at its meeting Tuesday.
Ivan Shewmake, head of the sanitation committee, said he had received complaints of bugs in High Rise cafeteria over the past months.
Upon investigation of the problem, he said he received no answers from the management as to how bugs could be prevented in the cafeteria.
“We have had a bug problem as long as I’ve been here,” Carolyn Sweeney, head resident of High Rise West, said.
She added that the dormitory is regularly sprayed for bugs once a month.
Robert LaLance, council chairman, suggested that more frequent and thorough treatments be conducted in order to alleviate the problem.
Sweeney is to contact the housing office to see that the procedure is carried out as soon as the dormitory has been evacuated at the end of the semester.
Shewmake said he had also received several complaints of hair being found in food.
The original policy of the campus food management had been that as long as a cafeteria worker’s hair was styled “close to the head,” the wearing of a hair net was not enforced.
“I checked into this matter and have received no complaints since,” Shewmake said. “There’s been more attention paid to the wearing of hair nets by cafeteria employees.”
LaLance recommended the committee act as a medium for submitting a complaint about hair being in food.
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