Benjamin R. Myers '02 hasn't had his bathroom cleaned in weeks.
"It smells," Myers says, surveying the room. "There's mildew on the floor. The trash can is overflowing, and the sinks are dirty. There's all kinds of garbage by the toilet."
His room in the Leverett House towers has only had one visit from Dorm Crew this year.
"We're in terrible trouble," says Myers' roommate, Steven R. Piraino '02. "We e-mailed the people from Dorm Crew, and there are exactly two people working on the entire Leverett complex."
The problem isn't limited to Leverett. Across campus, Dorm Crew is facing an unprecedented shortage of student workers, the downside of a generous new financial aid package and a booming economy.
Dorm Crew leaders and administrators are looking for solutions; in the meantime, they say they're doing the best they can. But don't expect the problem to be fixed anytime soon.
"Nobody feels like it's hard to find a job any more," says Jason J. Sunderson '01, one of Dorm Crew's two head captains. "Faced with three or four choices for how to raise money, cleaning bathrooms is probably not your first choice."
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