Glass shards and body fluids have tainted the halls of Binford almost daily for the past 10 months. Some residents in the hall have constantly deteriorated the standard of living for all who inhabit it, residents said. Every weekend, new surprises are found in the bathrooms.

“There was a toilet-paper dispenser with [crap] on it in the toilet,” said Josh Laker, like all residents of Binford a first-year student.

“Some dumb [person] pissed all over the sinks in the boy’s bathroom, causing our R.A. to clean it up,” said Carra Woodham and Eathan Gleiner, who reported having discovered “worms in the bathroom and on the water fountain.”

In the girl’s bathroom, “There was a used tampon in the shower for over a month,” Meaghan McCamman said.

Hannah Klein said, “For two weeks, I had to take a shower in water four inches deep with other people’s hair, spit, dirt and grime floating around in it.”

Sometimes substances normally found only in bathrooms made their way out into the halls.

Julia Bayardi was concerned when “Someone defecated in the hallway,” and Lisa Meager commented that she “nearly gets a disease when [she] walks down the hall.”

Besides the common infestation of germs, insects also infest some dorm rooms.

“The ladybug invasion of the fall was pleasant compared to the silverfish – those big, hairy centipedes with stingers – I found on my floor and around my bed,” Paul Yost said.

Most residents agree that one cure for the problem is to never have another first-year dorm.

“First-year students need to know that there are other things to do [at college] than drink and smoke,” said Sarah Austin, a second floor R.A.

Next year, Binford Hall will no longer be first-year-only. After poor results from the trial year, upperclassmen will be permitted to live on the T-wings.