Dear President Price,
As 59 Resident Assistants, we write to urge that residential housekeeping staff return to their original schedules.
From our perspective, marginally cleaner bathrooms and kitchens over the weekend have not improved the “safety” and wellbeing of residents enough to merit the substantial disruption to housekeeping staff’s lives. Housekeeping staff can no longer connect with their church communities nor afford the childcare now necessary due to this schedule. Whereas housekeeping staff cannot adjust to these permanently harmful impacts, residents barely notice the improved condition of weekend facilities. In fact, some residents have expressed annoyance and surprise that housekeeping staff are here on Sundays.
As RAs, we are committed to the community within our halls; this goes beyond students. The community is for housekeeping staff as well. For these reasons, we hope they can return to the original schedules.
The letter is cosigned by the following RAs: Trinity seniors Zhong Huang, Anna Merryman, Liz Finny, Zhao Ma, Jackie Xu, Francia Fang, Sabriyya Pate, Maegha Lanka, Melanie Park, Michael Saporito, Lucas Saporito, Jules Frost, Natalie Le, Nadia Kirmani, Nicholas Henlon, Michael Gulcicek, Juliana Hoover and Annie Yin; Pratt seniors Mary Zhang and Ryan Bergamini; Trinity juniors Juan Bermudez, Lily el Naccash, Liam Pulsifer, Daniel Fawcett, Ethan Ready, Robbie Ha, Gino Nuzzolillo, Jake Wong, Jandé Thomas, Vinit Parekh, Matt Wisner, Ameen Ahmad and Nico Bodkin; Pratt juniors Rachael Lau and Maddie Wilkinson; Trinity sophomores Donghun Louis Lee, Nathan Heffernan, Ali Thursland, Ila Kaul, Devin Mahoney, Michael Wen, Tobi West, Kayley Josephs, Michelle Katemauswa, Allan Khankari, Amory Williams, Rishika Gundi, Annie Roberts, Joshua Lorenzo, Amit Sarma, Daniel Sprague and Ellen Mines; Pratt sophomores Renata Starostka, Christina Holloway and Jordyn Scott, and Trinity alum Cara Leigh Downey, T' 18.
Editor's note: Zhong Huang and Robbie Ha are members of The Chronicle's independent editorial board. Gino Nuzzolillo and Nathan Heffernan are columnists for The Chronicle. Juan Bermudez and Liz Finny are sports photography editors for The Chronicle.
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