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Thursday: November 10. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
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Students share space with cockroaches
Despite use of pesticides hall residents complaining about high number of bugs
By Jeremy Kohn
Kansan staff writer
Amy Beckett may not be a typical statistician, but she has observed fewer cockroaches roaming her scholarship hall's cafeteria during the evenings this semester.
Beckett, a Topeka senior at Miller Hall, said that although the cochra cocktail experience had improved since last year, she remained unsatisfied. Last year, she said, about 10 cochra cocktails an hour could be seen late at night in Miller's cafeteria. About three an hour are common now.
"If they have somebody spraying, they should do a better job." Beckett said.
And students at some residence and scholarship halls said last week that weekly insect spraying by the student housing department has not destroyed cockroaches in their kitchens and cafeterias.
William Bell, chairman of the entomology department, said that under most circumstances, it is not possible to destroy all cockroaches. The insects, which can cause allergies, infiltrate most buildings. They have 16-30 offspring daily, eat anything, and can live anywhere.
"Where food is around, it is impossible to spray everything." Bell said.
everything. Although students may complain among themselves, the housing official who supervises pest control said that no complaints from those groups had been filed with the housing department this semester.
Marion Temple, assistant director of student housing, said the hallways, lobbies, trash chutes and janitor's closets in residence halls, scholarship halls, Jayhawk Towers, Stouffer Place and Sunflower apartments been sprayed weekly since last fall. Kitchens in residence and scholarship halls have been sprayed weekly since August, he said.
Residents can complete a request from their manager's office for their private rooms to be sprayed as well. Temple said that vacant buildings will be sprayed and fumigated this summer. However, fumigation is not possible during the school year because buildings must be vacant for at least half a day, he said.
Temple said he did not know how often the residence halls were sprayed between the end of 1985 and last fall, when he became supervisor of pest control. Before 1985, student housing paid a private firm $12,000 a year to spray its buildings and that the annual cost of spraying is now $17,000.
Temple said he was not sure whether spotting three cockroaches an hour meant a problem existed at Miller. But pest control had improved, he said, because there had been no complaints this
"I think we're doing a better job than we've done in the past." Temple said.
However, Michael Shumaker, Lawrence branch manager of Terminix, a pest control company, said that Beckett's observations meant that a cockroach problem existed at Miller and that the University might be mishandling its pest control. Weekly spraying for a year should have corrected the problem, he said.
"Somewhere within the technicians, the chemicals, the applications, you will find where the problem is." shumaker said.
The University cannot thoroughly spray all of its buildings during the school year because it has to follow state laws concerning entry rights. Tenants have to give permission for their rooms to be spraved.
Students from Jayhawker Towers said two weeks ago that they also had cockroach problems. The housing department received an Oct. 20 complaint from a Jayhawker Towers resident about cockroaches, garbage removal and a lack of hot water for the complex's laundry room.
Temple said that roaches were attracted to food, garbage and grease and that dirty kitchens were prime areas for the insects.
However, kitchens at residence and scholarship balls are cleaned daily.
However, Glogowski said he has seen fewer cockroaches this year.
Gerry Dixon, Great Bend junior at Battlefield Scholarship Hall, said the spraying kept the insects away from the hall's kitchen for about two days. But the insects always return.
Students at Ellsworth Hall, McCollum Hall and Hashinger Hall said they had seen the insects in cafeterias, kitchens, bathrooms and weight rooms.
Temple declined to comment on why the weekly spraying had not solved the problem in the residence or scholarship halls.
But Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that some cocochares always survive exterminating attempts. The spraying helps keep the problem limited.
"They have to go somewhere." Landkamer said.
Ken Glogowski, Emporia sophomore, who works in Hashinger's kitchen, said the insects probably entered the kitchen from the packing materials of each new food shipment. Temple said this explanation was likely.
"the goal is to control and minimize the pests," Stoner said. ___
"You should have come earlier this morning; you could have hidden one." Dixon said last week. David Landkamer, a licensed exterminator who is now a cook at McCollum hall, said he held the school's leadership halls weekly from February to Oct. 28, when he worked for housing maintenance.
He said the construction of a drainage system south of 14th and Louisiana streets near some scholarship halls may have increased the number of the insects in some of these halls.
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