Project 1 Update

From the last blog entry a couple of new changes have taken place in our project. Our main purpose is still to make the bathroom a cleaner environment. Instead of just putting various amounts of posters up and hoping that the students comply, and also conducting surveys, we came up with a better more concrete plan. Our new plan is to still conduct simple tasks to remind the students to keep the bathroom in better shape but we have also come up with a goal for the dorm halls. We have now gotten the janitors more involved. The janitors keep a tab on the events that happen in the bathroom. Whether it is cleaning up throw up or any other messes that is not in their daily routines. We have made a plan to check with the janitors every so often to see if anything, like cleaning up throw up has been reported. We will ask them about which halls have done what and see who has been the cleanest. The hall that has the best reports of the cleanliness of their bathroom at the end of the year will be given a pizza party. The pizza party idea came about after talking about what we have done so far in front of our comp class. Once we took that idea and made it our own we talked with the building director in our hall and started the process in making the pizza party a possibility. With the help of our building director and with the help of the money compiled by our hall council the possibility of having the pizza party was made a reality. Our group changed up our plans a little because we felt that the students have already been told to keep the bathrooms cleaned and have not responded to that kind of reinforcement. We felt that we needed to take it a step further and take a different approach to get a better response from the student body. With the perk of a pizza party we figured that there would be a better possibility that they would try to abide by the rules of keeping the bathroom cleaner. Also giving the hall with the cleanest bathroom a pizza party should be seen as a reward and maybe in the next years they could keep this contest a tradition. Hopefully this new approach will have a better affect on the student body.