Article: Lane Students Protest Bathrooms // Complain of Odors, Lack of Doors

There's a new flurry of activism at Lane Tech, one of the city's premier public high schools.

Politics? Censorship? Racial conflict?

No, Lane Tech's problem is more mundane: Some of the student bathrooms - as one volunteer puts it - smell like the Lion House at the zoo.

Urinals, water faucets and hand driers that don't work - combined with an absence of toilet paper, soap and doors on the bathroom stalls - have ignited an "Adopt-a-Washroom" movement by students and the local school council.

"It is probably the biggest issue with the students," said senior Marshall Harris, a student member of the local school council, who concedes that students have contributed to the problem.

"The ...

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