Fix-It

This week in Fix-It we turn to a source of much frustration and many lost quarters—the Carman Hall basement dryers. Since the beginning of the school year, students have struggled to find and claim the few dryers that remain in working condition. Variations on the theme of brokenness abound: one has odd coins jammed in its slot, another spits quarters straight back out, and a third spins wet clothes without heat, and one heats laundry without spinning. Since there are so few working dryers available, many first-years are put in the embarrassing position of having to remove a stranger’s t-shirts, socks, and underwear from a functional dryer that just completed its cycle in order to finish their own laundry, and the situation has resulted in heaps of clothes covering the laundry room tables and machines. As a result of the numerous broken dryers, many students complain of experiences in the basement where mistakenly choosing an out-of-order dryer has resulted in wasted dollars and damp clothes having to be hung to air dry in their rooms. “It’s so inconvenient,” said Hechen Ren, CC ’11, a seventh floor Carman resident, “They should really pay more attention.”