The Electrical & Electronic Engineering department is in yet more trouble over its toilets - this time over male students using the female toilets.
Peter Cheung the Director of Undergraduate Studies (and Deputy Head of Department) was forced, today, to send out an email to all undergraduates advising them that they should use the toilet appropriate to their gender. It is understood that Mr Cheung received complaints from several female students that male students had been "ignoring the toilet signs on the doors" and using female toilets.
A disgruntled (male) EEE student claimed that the females tend to use the male toilets anyway. Perhaps this what Mr Cheung was bearing in mind when he said "any male student caught using the female toilets (or female student using the male toilets) will be disciplined".
Mr Cheung went on to suggest that explusion from the College would be considered for students caught comitting such offences. However several EEE students pointed out to the Live! that some of the toilets are missing the gender sign on the door.
The latest debacle over EEE toilets comes in the wake of a campaign by EEE student reps to combat the issue of smell in the toilets, voted worst in the College in a recent Live! poll. The issue was taken up at the staff-student committee by Dep Rep, Shovi Ghosh, who said that the "toilets are clean... but just smell". However, other EEE students have disputed the (un)cleanliness of the toilets - which was exposed in a recent issue of Fused (the departmental newsletter), resulting in the Editor being, constitutionally, "in the crap". As one student put it, "the toilets are generally shit, but the ones next to the Head of Department's office are ok".
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