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Article: Lane Students Protest Bathrooms // Complain of Odors, Lack of Doors
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 3, 1994
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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 ...