Library/ Progress on Project 1

After meeting in the library today I definitely feel like I have all the tools I need in order to back up our group’s thoughts on why certain things need to change. It was very helpful today to learn more about how to navigate around the schools library website. Our group also found some very useful information that we could use to back up some of our leading arguments. We found "set in stone" rules for the university dorm policies. I felt that this would be good to have so that either our group can look back and refer to it or we could use it in order to show someone the official rules and how people are abusing them. 

In addition to finding some useful information online it was also very beneficial to talk to the librarian and get some ideas from her to see where she thinks we could take the project. She gave us some specific ideas; for example she told us that we could recommend bigger and more trashcans for our issue with the overflowing trashcans. She also told us that we need to really direct the concerns not only to the staff and the people in charge, but also to the student body. I totally agree with this statement since it is the student body that is causing most of these problems. Also Dr. Morris gave us some ideas of things that we could start doing to get a better start on the project. I thought her idea to count the number of stalls, showers, and toilets and compare that number to the number of custodians was a great idea. I was thinking that if we presented these numbers to the right people they might realize that the number is a little ridiculous and unrealistic for only a couple of custodians to clean these bathrooms every day.

After hearing some more ideas that we could use for our project we started to really buckle down on starting our proposal. Our group feels that in order to start working on some of our issues we need to get the basic things done, like starting our proposal. During our class period today we assigned different parts of the proposal to people in the group. In addition to getting a start on our proposal we are trying to set up a meeting next week with our building director. We made a list of concerns and questions to talk to her about and to see where to go from there.