Maintenance reports become comic relief A toilet won't flush. Alight won't turn on. A door won't stop creaking. Harding University's maintenance crews dealt with problems like these in the dorms every day. Tune after time they rescued damsels in distress by reviewing the maintenance logs located in each women' 5 donn lobby, calling in work orders and fixing the reported problems. In spite of the serious nature of their jobs, however, maintenance officials said many of the requests they received were humorous. For example, the ladies of Shores Hall reported a few requests that, if read in the right way, were quite entertaining. "My mirror doesn't work!" one read. Another: "The toilet isn't bolted down!" The ladies of Searcy Hall, however, struggled with a different kind of problem at the beginning of the semester. The menace came in the form of bugs. Junior AmyGreek, a resident assistant in Searcy Halt said she recalled one girl last year who didn't see the need to use words for her bug report. "She just drew ants across the maintenance log page, one by one, to illustrate her point," Greek said. One girl wrote down, "There is a live bug in the bathroom ... looks like a black beetle." Another girl: "There are beetles in the sink area! (alive)." Besides the faulty mirrors, loose toilets and courageous bugs that live in a women's dorm, the other enemy PEOPLE -110 maintenance battled was mold that sometimes crept into some of the . residence halls. Senior Jennifer Holt, a resident assistant in Cathcart HaU, said she remembered a friend's report last year that was the cause of much employed in the department. "Over Christmas break a girl left a note on her dorm door that read, 'Dear Filter Man, please water my plants while you are here so they won't die while I am gone,'" DeRamus said. ~::~~;~~~:a~~er fri:e:n:ds~~.::::::::::~~;;3~~it{;;1t~Rr;~- ~f~~~ be some mord in dt"A and hubathroom, but for 14~ volved the vents in the l~ ~~~~~~;:::~:::') mor inwhatever reason, {CI a girl this girl had way too ~ who lived in Shores much in hers: Holt said. "She Hall shortly after it was built, Dereported it as the 'black mold of Ramus said. death' and it just struck us all as "She called the department and very humorous." said there was a stinky smell coming Danny DeRamus, director of from her oven," he said. "When the Physical Resources, said he has maintenance men arrived to check it seen and heard many funny things out, they discovered she was warmduring the 20 years he has been ing her food up in a Tupperware container, which was melting plast all over the rack." DeRamus also said a typical c, from a girl's dorm was about tl clo§ged sink drain. 'When we went to unclog tl drain, our plumbers asked if she hi dropped anything down the dra that could be causing the clog," D Ramus said. "The girl said, 'Well put an entire box of rice down tl drain because it had bugs in it: TI plumbers worked for hours to remo the rice concrete from the drain. Th is one of those things you should n try a thorne." From getting rid of deathly mo to digging out rice from a drain, tl maintenance men have seen and heaJ it all. So students beware - a C for help one day can be someone punch line the next. ~llSA SLOU
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