Friday, May 8, 1998
Saving water no longer determines when to flush
NASTINESS
By Rachel Munoz
Daily Bruin Staff
If it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down. Many
of you might know this saying from the water-saving days of the
1970s. But in today’s society with El Nino’s plentiful showers,
there is no excuse not to flush, no matter what color it is. There
is nothing more gross than walking into a stall, looking into the
toilet and seeing a big turd. The UCLA bathrooms smell bad enough,
why would people want to enhance these disgusting scents with their
waste sitting in the toilet? Why don’t people flush?
"Guys are disgusting. You sit there too long and you forget
about it. I do that all the time."
Jesse Doroshow
Fourth year
Political science
"I don’t like to go in when other people don’t flush the toilet
especially when they pee on the seat. Maybe girls don’t like to
flush because they don’t want to touch anything because it is germ
oriented."
Monica Escobedo
Third year
Communications
"Because they figure that someone else will flush it."
Matt Cabrera
First year
Film
"They want to show off (the size of their turds)."
Jason Rogers
First year
Computer science and engineering
"They might be scared of the noise."
Kara Janowsky
Third year
Theater
"They are scared that it is going to overflow or they don’t want
to waste water."
Gwen Patrick
Second year
History
"They were born in the barn."
Joel Brass
Second year
History
"If guys take a big dump they want everyone to see it."
Meg Spieker
First year
Undeclared
"It’s like a trophy. Hopefully the self-flushing toilets will
become more popular and we won’t have this problem anymore."
Joel Oxman
Third year
Political science