Texas A&M Students Have to Fight for the Right To Potty

July 22, 2010     Posted in College, News, Reality

If you have a moment, I want you to think of the necessitates in your life.  What things do you really need to get by?  For me, it’s toast (food), coffee (water), reality TV, and toilet paper.


By Brittany

But head honchos at Texas A&M don’t agree.

The University, in attempts to cut $60 million of their budget campus wide, is hoping to remove $82,000 from their budget first by leaving the dormitories sans TP.  Yep, that’s right. Texas A&M is not stocking dormitories with the one thing we really need on a Sunday morning (after extensive partying, the discovery of cheap vodka and the obligatory late night burrito).

Associate vice president for communications, Susan Sherylon Carroll says, “We looked at what areas can we cut and not negatively affect our students’ academics, and it was that.”  Really, Susan Sherylon? You really think not having potty essentials to clean up shop isn’t going to negatively affect all of the students who are consuming DORM FOOD? (And speaking of food, if they’re taking away TP, can you imagine what sort of cuts they are making with the grub? Um, ew.)

I have a firm belief that not being able to wipe (or sprinting to buildings where they can) is going to affect any students studying rituals and academic performance. 

Let us brainstorm.  I’m sure there are a ton of other things they can remove from the life of a college student that is not going to negatively affect their academic performance (or force them to drip dry….).  How about all of those fancy ‘University’ magazines they send out to families, that weird salad nobody eats in the caf, the inflated salaries of the worst professors on campus, gas expenses for those little maintenance cars that push people off sidewalks on the way to class, or the vice president’s assistant salary?

We’re in a recession, I get it, but there’s got to be a better way for universities to cut their losses than by taking away students’ rights to wipe. I mean, if we’re already stooping this low, what’s next? Shower curtains? Indoor plumbing? Charging for office hours? Come on!

11 Comments on "Texas A&M Students Have to Fight for the Right To Potty"

  1. katie says:
    Thu, 22nd Jul 20107:53 am 

    I am a freshman this fall at Oglethorpe (A small liberal arts college in Atlanta, Ga. One of the oldest in the state). Anyways, the dorms are set up for 2 dorm rooms (4 people total) share a bathroom. They don't supply TP. I thought it was odd but Im not upset by it. At least Im not sharing with my hall/dorm.

  2. chelsycupcake says:
    Thu, 22nd Jul 20109:56 am 

    I think that schools should have the duties of stocking communal bathrooms. If it is a suite or private room then the students should take over the responsibility.

  3. Laura says:
    Thu, 22nd Jul 201010:02 am 

    I. Love. This. Title.

    Thank you for that.

  4. Lenna says:
    Thu, 22nd Jul 201010:07 am 

    In my dorm, they allow us to take 4 rolls of TP per week for a dorm room that holds 4 people. It's the really crappy weak stuff too. So I just buy toilet paper. I think I spend maybe $20 on a big pack of 36 rolls that lasted most of the semester.

    Schools ought to stock communal restrooms, but private ones- meh. I imagine that if students can afford to go get plastered every weekend, buying toilet paper is not going to kill them.

    I agree they need to get rid of those 'University' magazines that no one reads. Those are pointless.

  5. Nicole says:
    Thu, 22nd Jul 201011:29 am 

    I totally agree with Chelsycupcake.

  6. Tia says:
    Thu, 22nd Jul 20101:09 pm 

    I actually attend A&M right now, and to be honest, this doesn't sound like a terrible thing to me at all. Most of the dorms on campus (excluding the corps dorms) are in fact suite style dorms where a maximum of 4 people share it. And to be honest, I don't know if I really want their crappy toilet paper that they dish out anyway (it tends to be thinner than tissue paper). Plus, our university is currently making more important cutbacks right now that many more people should be concerned about that the luxury of getting them to bring you the worst TP in the world. For instance, hundreds of our utility workers on campus were just all fired a week or so ago just to save money and allocate it elsewhere, which means that all those work orders done around campus involving your AC running out will now be done by a maximum currently of about 3 people as opposed to the normal 4 times that. So… Toilet paper is the least of A&M's worries right now.

  7. lil mama says:
    Thu, 22nd Jul 20103:19 pm 

    i actually think its a good idea. as long as they put the 60 million in something useful for the students, i wouldnt mind bringing my own tp to school.

  8. Pickup Insurance says:
    Sat, 24th Jul 201011:41 pm 

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  9. Nelson says:
    Sun, 25th Jul 20101:06 am 

    I have a better point: with today's job market, is a college degree from Texas A&M worth anything more than TP?!

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