Often, one of the perks of living in a dorm at college is the housekeeping, which dumps the trash, hoses down the bathroom and refills depleted toilet paper rolls in the stalls. But at Texas A&M, students in dorms may soon be responsible for having to supply their own TP.
It’s all part of a cost-cutting plan by the school’s Department of Student Affairs, which says the University can save $82,000 each year by cutting down on the use of gratis toilet paper.
According to the proposal, students would get some free TP at the beginning of the semester, but as soon as that supply is exhausted, it’s up to the students to replenish it themselves.
One A&M student predicts that this is only going to encourage petty thievery of toilet paper:
It’s going to make people resort to going where there is toilet paper on campus and taking it from there.
Thinking back to my college days and remembering the things my friends used as substitute toilet paper when the roll was empty… okay, now I’ve lost my appetite.
A&M may drop free TP in dorms [Houston Chronicle]
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i wonder how many employees in the student affairs department can be eliminated for the same amount? Guessing just one, solution found to cut 82k.
When I attended Emerson, some of the dorms had no toilet paper or any paper supplies/cleaning supplies. You had to supply them all with your own money. What wasn’t fair was that one of the dorms did get toilet paper and they were cleaned because the bathrooms were communal in that dorm whereas we had private suites in the other dorms where six people living in a suite shared a bathroom/shower. We had the extra expense of shelling out money for cleaning crap, TP, etc. I mean a Swiffer is like 30 bucks these days! They did however supply garbage bags which when it came time to go home I took as many as would fit in my suitcase considering how much money I forked out and b.s. I dealt with while attending there.
This is what room and board pays for.
Condoms and toilet paper should be given out for free to students, otherwise they might not em.
The horror!!!
Having every student buy their own TP and cart it home is more wasteful. At least sell it at the dorm (next to the corn).
Is it part of the Dorm Fee? No. Pay for it. Yes. Provide it.
Morons. Students will just get the TP from other locales on campus and in town. I seem to recall some guys living off campus who had a backpack and a screwdriver whereever they went. They’d visit the bathroom, and take all the rolls, then hit the next one and so on until their pack was full…
Restaurants, gas stations, office buildings, etc… I predict that when they start losing TP that a local ruckus will ensue and the campus will reconsider their plan…
OR, if there’s no TP available, there’s probably a shower curtain or hallway curtain that can be used in an emergency… Once they get a few of those used, things will change…
This is what my school does for suites with private bathrooms. They clean it twice a year and supply it with toilet paper at the beginning of the year; we’re responsible for the rest. It makes sense to me.
In college, I always had to buy my own toilet paper. I was also lucky enough to live in suites (couple rooms in a group with one normal bathroom.) Everyone who lived in regular dorms (long hallway of many rooms with one big bathroom with many stalls and showers) had free tp.
“But it’s likely that the larger dorm bathrooms — where four or more gather – will keep the necessary item in stock.”
It sounds like their new rules will be the same as my college was. I never thought it was a bad deal. The suites look more like apartments, and we didn’t have anyone come in and clean our bathrooms for us.