Comments on: Welcome to Graduate School, Please Don’t Shit in the Shower

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:53:56 +0000

people from the east (india, etc.) stand on toilets

By: Lyndia

Lyndia — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:10:24 +0000

I left grad school a long time ago. However, I’m grateful that there’s an attempt to teach appropriate “elimination” behavior out there.

There is no reason to believe that such behavior stops when a person leaves school. In fact, there are legendary cases (proven to be true!) of executives peeing into bottles and expecting their assistants to empty them. The mind boggles at the other behaviors such people exhibit in their offices.

By: dartmouth '12

dartmouth '12 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:29:28 +0000

They should’ve handed this pamphlet out to Dartmouth first years last fall. My floormates did everything that was not appropriate. And yes, that includes shitting in the shower.

By: nanan

nanan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:58:20 +0000

reminds me of when we’d pee in a gatorade bottle and glue the bottle to a desk…good luck cleaning that bottle

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:27:17 +0000

When I lived at the Hall of Graduate Studies at Yale I posed very similar images in my hall bathroom after coming across some VERY unpleasant scenes. Seems the graphic icons did the trick.

By: FormerGSASDormResident

FormerGSASDormResident — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:55:50 +0000

The really terrifying thing is that, according to the RA in my G1 year, most of these rules are based on actual incidents. According to a friend who was in the dorms last year, pee hoarding turned out to be a real problem in 2008/9, particularly when culprits started leaving it in the kitchen and in residents rooms.

Based on his explanation that any incident, however isolated, will lead to the creation of a new rule, I always aspired to inspire one – sadly I failed to do so, but I would point out to ambitious newcomers that there is a rule about sex in the showers, but nothing about the toilets or the sink areas…

By: P10/11

P10/11 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:52 +0000

Actually, although I have observed some unpleasant bathroom scenes in Iraq, my all-time favorite was on Foulke Hall at Princeton last winter. Some lady or gentleman who was never identified vomited in one of the stalls, apparently while taking a shit, producing more vomit than I would ever have imagined possible. It was literally about 3/4 of an inch deep. My roommate discovered this by stepping in it.

On top of this, outside the stall, someone – no telling if it was the same creature as the “vomit bandit” – had shaved their extraordinarily hairy self and left the shavings on the floor. Presumably this individual was a werewolf or chimp, based on the sheer volume of black hair everywhere. And as I recall there was an area where the vomit from the one incident and the ape fur from the other mingled.

Everyone was pretty mad. But perhaps if a sign like those at GSAS had been present, the vomit bandit and ape-man would have realized that what they were about to do was inappropriate.

By: B'11

B'11 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:01:20 +0000

I always brush my teeth in the shower!

By: RA at the GSAS dorms

RA at the GSAS dorms — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:07:11 +0000

I was a resident advisor at one of the GSAS dorms the year this pamphlet was produced (2001-2002). We couldn’t stop laughing at our boss’ ideas. However, the thing about not shitting in the showers is there for a reason. Someone (nicknamed by some of us as the “undercover shitter”) pooped twice in the shower, in consecutive weekends, when there were no janitors around to clean up the mess…

PS. Yale Man, that happened at the Harvard GSAS dorms too. Apparently in the summer of 2001 a certain individual used to pee in his room in a milk cartoon and take it then to the trash in the communal kitchen.

By: Alum

Alum — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:59:02 +0000

In public restrooms I often use my shod foot to flush the toilet. I don’t understand what’s wrong with that. Makes contagion less likely.