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The Rice Thresher
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by Olivia Allison Thresher editorial staff
Few items were stored in the basement, Vanderlip said. Vanderlip sent an e-mail to the Hanszen listserv Wednesday saying the room, called the "B and P," would be condemned for an undetermined amount of time. Frank Rodriguez, Housing and Dining Assistant Director for Business, said the standing water comes not from the recent rain but from a plumbing leak involving the toilets above the room. Rodriguez said the leaks would not be repaired until next week. The overhead lights in the basement are unfinished, so some electrical wires are dangling from the ceiling. However, Rodriguez said this problem should be repaired soon. Much of the basement's ceiling was removed this summer, when H&D removed asbestos and replaced pipes and insulation in the basement. The work on the basement's ceiling is still unfinished. Rodriguez said the wires and unfinished lights are not dangerous, but the basement is still condemned because of the room's numerous problems. "I don't think it's dangerous so much as you don't want to be down there," Rodriguez said. "I know that lights are hanging down, but as long as people don't swing on the lights, I don't see how it's dangerous." Although the basement typically serves as a storage area for students' belongings during the summer, students' possessions were not damaged by the water because Hanszen rented two trailers for storage this summer. Vanderlip said he is glad Hanszen decided not to use the basement rooms as storage, since some of the college basements were flooded this summer during Tropical Storm Allison. "We're kind of lucky that we got these storage units," Vanderlip, a senior, said. "It probably got pretty bad earlier this summer - it's flooded in the past, we know." Other college items, such as some tables, a ping-pong table and decorations for the college's St. Patrick's Day party, were stored in the room, and Vanderlip said no one has checked to see the extent of the damage to these items, nor does he know what has been thrown away. H&D employees disposed of some items when they removed asbestos. Rodriguez said H&D would have to paint the floor of the basement room adjacent to the B and P before the couches in the room could be moved. However, Rodriguez said previous problems have given him some concerns about using the adjacent room. "There are some issues there too - there's been some molding in the past and other problems in that room," he said. Rodriguez said H&D would continue to work hard at repairing the basement, but it would probably take at least two weeks. "We'll do everything we can to get it back up for Hanszen so they'll have their storage area back," Rodriguez said. "It's just gotten out of hand, but we're working on it. ... Several things have to happen, so it could be a couple weeks."
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