Darya Foroohar, ‘20

December 2019

One of BHSEC’s most pressing issues is the sporadic lack of soap in any one of its bathrooms. While at first this presents itself as a slightly annoying guessing game, it quickly devolves into frustration and disgust because of the clear lack of hygiene in the school. We all know that many people choose not to wash their hands after they use the bathroom, but taking away working soap dispensers does not fix this problem; putting hand-washers and dirty gremlins on the same pedestal comes at the cost of general cleanliness. However, while we are waiting for the dispensers to be replaced, here are some things you can do:

1. Bring hand sanitizer. This comes in mini bottles and can be a variety of yummy scents, making it the perfect accessory or secret snowflake gift. While it does help promote the rise of superbug bacteria, you shouldn’t worry about that right now. We’re here for a clean time, not a long time.

2. Never pee, ever. Bathrooms too gross? Just hold it in so you don’t have to face the horrors of going to pee without washing your hands. Your classmates will thank you. Though maybe less when you eventually pee your pants.

3. Demand your SU reps to fix the dispensers. While the SU has thoroughly discussed the broken dispensers, we haven’t actually added more soap to them, so you should take matters into your own hands: threaten your SU representatives with a coup, then physical harm, then death (in that order, of course– no need to take things out of proportion). Modern problems require modern solutions, and this one is clearly perfect

The lack of hygiene at BHSEC needs to be taken seriously, and the only way to do that is through direct action on your part, since everybody else seems to be content to let you reside in your own filth. While these suggestions are good starting points, they are by no means the limit to what you can do.