Dirty Central Campus apartments are inexcusable

In reference to the Sept. 14 article concerning Central Campus apartments, I must say that the explanation Michael Scott offers for their condition sounds more like poor excuses than valid reasons.

This summer, I lived at 206 Oregon St. for two months, and although I never found dead mice or black bathtubs, I was less than pleased with the general state of cleanliness. Did housekeeping give up cleaning the floors altogether and settle for slopping a coat of wax over the dirt?

Most windows were tolerable, but one appeared to be covered in a film resembling the bacterial growth I spent eight weeks observing at the Medical Center. Having once spent a summer cleaning hotel rooms, I fail to see how these things could have escaped a conscientious housekeeper.

Apparently these housekeepers were rushing to clean 30 apartments in one day. Or perhaps they just didn't care. I might not if I were underpaid (my assumption; it may be invalid) and over-working for a bunch of privileged Dookies.

I'm not an economics major, but if the problem is a workforce that can't wax floors well, then hire one who can. Ants? Get rid of them- don't just stop them from coming out into the open.

A lack of time may make things difficult, but it does not justify dead mice and black bathtubs. And while finances may explain why all the yellow, dingy floors can't be replaced with new ones, this doesn't mean that we can't clean the ones we have. Undoubtedly some will believe me to be a bitchy, spoiled brat.

However, higher expectations are not necessarily unreasonable ones, and at an institution with resources such as ours, the situation is largely more avoidable than Scott implied.

To Housing Management's credit, the two emergencies I had the summer were dealt with in a competent manner. Bottom line: at a University where the annual going rate for tuition, room, and board is about $33,000, there is no excuse. We all deserve better.