Photo by: Anna Gallegos
The walls in the University of Houston library bathrooms are rife with graffiti. This includes posting up numbers to call for a good time or alluding to the size of one’s genitalia. While the writers of the graffiti are coy about their words by not leaving any identification, how students feel about it is not. In a video interview, two female students believe that the graffiti is “disrespecting the university” and that students “shouldn’t write [graffiti] on other people’s property”.
This form of “disrespect” is not limited to the library bathrooms, however. On the sixth floor of the M.D. Anderson library, a previous user of the study cubicles asks others to “allow love by erasing hate”. A study done at a Southern California University believes that whoever wrote this is revealing an even deeper concern of college students. This study stated that “washroom graffiti” is indicative of the inner beliefs and thought process of college students.
Even though students are venting their inner feelings on the bathroom walls, this creates a hassle for the janitorial staff that has to clean the graffiti. When asked about what library security is doing to decrease the occurrences of graffiti, they provided no comment.
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