Work piles up for campus janitors

Washington State University

WSU custodians say more work and less staff is affecting sanitation around campus.

Rochelle Adams

The Daily Evergreen

Published: 03/22/2010

Some WSU custodians say that they are being given more work than they have time to complete it. Over the last few years, custodians under WSU Facilities and Operations workload per hours of work has gone up enough to prevent them from finishing assigned tasks, said Steve A.* and Jennifer T.*, two FacOps custodians. They worry that the uncompleted custodial work building up will lead to the campus becoming unsanitary.

City taking over some building maintenance to save money

By Gretchen Ross
Posted by Sarah Harlan

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - In a money-saving move, the city of Evansville will take over the maintenance on four buildings currently managed by SMG.

Ohio State janitor's gunfire kills co-worker, self

By MATT LEINGANG, Associated Press Tue Mar 9, 6:26 pm ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt.

Nathaniel Brown, 51, arrived for work at the nation's largest university dressed in dark clothing, a hooded sweat shirt and a backpack. He then opened fire in an office suite using two handguns, campus Police Chief Paul Denton said.

Meningitis outbreak sets off probe at Ohio University

Seven students were sickened by same group of bacteria
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:20 AM
By Misti Crane
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Seven cases of bacterial meningitis at Ohio University caused by the same group of bacteria also share the same genetic fingerprint, prompting public-health experts to declare an outbreak and delve deeper into an investigation of the illnesses there.

The investigation by federal, state and local scientists will take at least a couple of weeks and aims to uncover what might have made the students susceptible to the bacteria, which don't cause problems for most people, said Dr. Mary DiOrio, assistant state epidemiologist.

Army declines to privatize West Point janitors

The U.S. Army has decided not to privatize the jobs of about 100 janitors at West Point.

As quoted from the Boston Herald.