Some Houses took steps to run the roaches out before students arrived.
"Before the students arrive, we clean the drains and apply a cleaning
compound," said H. Joseph O'Connor, Dunster House superintendent and building manager in the Houses. "It tends to drive [the cockroaches] down, otherwise it would have been a bigger problem. If we hadn't treated the drains, there would have even more."
While O'Conner's efforts seem to have paid off--he's gotten only three
roach-related complaints in Dunster--Eliot House has had roughly 18 of its rooms treated for cockroaches by Best Pest Control, Harvard's exterminators.
Eliot's new superintendent, Francisco Medeiros, declined to comment.
Rod J. Kreimeyer, owner of Best Pest, says cockroaches can appear in any room where the pipes have dried up and will not necessarily be confined to a specific floor or entryway.
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