Though close to two dozen Eliot rooms were treated for roaches, Kreimeyer says, ""Off the top of my head, I would say that there were not more calls than last year from Elliot...[this is] nothing
unusual."
Kreimeyer says the University as a whole has been proactive in working to prevent infestation problems, sighting efforts to chemically treat basements, mechanical rooms and crawl spaces as a way to keep the cockroach population from burgeoning.
"The problem is minimal to what it used to be," he said. "The cockroach
problem is almost eliminated."
But for some students, close encounters of the six-legged kind are very real. Mary E. Unsworth '01 of Lowell House had to throw out all her toiletries after finding close to 10 cockroaches in a bag in her bathroom.
"Cockroaches are very rare once the building is occupied," Lowell House
Superintendent Jay Coveney said. "When the students are here, it's no problem, unless they are really
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