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<p>I’m living in a West Campus dorm this summer, and it is disgusting how long people leave their dirty dishes out for. And not just in the sink. Everywhere. I usually live in an East Campus dorm and this never happens there. Take your stereotypes elsewhere.</p>
<p>The amount of pests does not necessarily follow the amount of dirty. You should consider the material of the building, how old the building is, what buildings are around that building… Random Hall has a lot of pests because it is next door to an abandoned saloon. Luckily that building is being demolished and Random Hall is being fumigated, so that won’t be the case after this summer.</p>
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<p>Oh great idea. Let’s say we demand it. Then what? Most or all dorms fumigated every summer? Less or no summer housing, no free storage in dorms for the summer, everything must be cleared out and what isn’t cleared out is trash? Every summer? Because I’m pretty sure you would still have pests, even after that. And then what? Every week? Would we still have time for classes? Screw classes. Let’s just fumigate everything, every day, and lose our lives to an absurd fear of the city around us (or, you know, lung cancer from the fumigation).</p>
<p>And what about the other buildings? Are we going to shut down the Student Center because I saw a mouse in there last night? What about buildings where people are trying to do science and really, really wouldn’t appreciate the interruption?</p>
<p>On top of that, the health risks of constant fumigation are very, very real, and much more likely to affect us than the health risks from living among pests in a city, assuming you don’t catch the mice and roaches to eat without cooking them first. [Health</a> effects of pesticides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_pesticides]Health”>Health effects of pesticides - Wikipedia)</p>