{"id":1175,"date":"2019-04-28T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T00:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2019-05-25T23:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T23:28:40","slug":"bathrooms-in-need-of-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2019\/04\/bathrooms-in-need-of-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter in hot water? Not in the bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First floor, west building, women’s restroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bathrooms in both the North and West building are experiencing problems with their tap water and students have been complaining all semester, claiming that the situation could be unhygienic. Not only is the water cold in temperature, the sinks also have faulty motion sensors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sucks walking inside from being in the cold for so long only to wash my hands with ice cold water,\u201d said Mariam Machabeli, a pre-med student. \u201cNot only is it unpleasant it\u2019s also not good for you since it doesn\u2019t clean efficiently\u2014trust me, I\u2019d know. My mom is a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to many scientific studies, washing hands with cold water is not as effective as using hot or even lukewarm water. Studies recommend using warm water since soap lathers up better as opposed to using the opposite. The Food and Drug Administration states that although warmer waters don\u2019t necessarily kill more bacteria, they do remove more oils in the hands that harbor it. Therefore, making cold waters less hygienic.<\/p>\n

Some students claim the cold water is triggering medical related problems. Nikola Iberle, a psychology student, said \u201cI have seasonal eczema and the cold water is really bad for my hands because it irritates them even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many doctors, such as Dr. Linda Wang, a pediatrician, suggest people with eczema wash their hands with warm water since both cold and hot water can irritate and trigger it.<\/p>\n

In addition to the freezing water temperatures, the faucets themselves don\u2019t work as expected. \u201cI should point out that the pressure of the water is always very low in certain bathrooms,\u201d says Machabeli. \u201cAnd the motion sensors like to have their moments too. They certainly don\u2019t work all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even wash my hands because these sinks barely turn on,\u201d said Aissatou Bah, a third-year media studies student.<\/p>\n

When asked about the cold water, a Hunter College spokesperson said that the water heaters in the North Building are aging and in need of replacement. \u201cThey have been identified as a critical maintenance project,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n

As for the sensors, the spokesman said he was not aware of the problem and would ask the school\u2019s facility team follow up to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bathrooms in both the North and West building are experiencing problems with their tap water and students have been complaining all semester, to no avail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}