2008 Woodie Awards
Laundry plan cleans up for students
Kyle Wiese
Issue date: 8/30/07 Section: Opinion
The frustrating thing about washing clothes on campus is how costs add up, especially if you wash your clothes every week.
There is something that the school can do about this: have students pay upfront for laundry for the entire semester at the beginning.
Students spend, if they wash their clothes every week and a half to two weeks, $4 per week for every 15 weeks per semester, in essence, approximately $60.
What is annoying is the fact that a student must always have cash on them and put money on their Cougar Card every single time to do laundry.
Why not allow the student to set up a meal plan-like account with the school, pay at the beginning of the semester, and be able to wash clothes an unlimited number of times?
The university would ensure they make the maximum amount of money off each student, and the student wouldn't have to worry about coming up with a couple of bucks just to wash clothes.
If students were allowed to have an account for laundry, other than the regular debit plan already used, that would remove their temptation to try to find other, cheaper Laundromats.
SIUE, like any other school, has many fees that students do not even know exist or exactly what their money is going to benefit.
Well, students may as well pay a flat fee to use the laundry services if they are going to have to pay $4 every time they go to do laundry anyway.
Some people on campus try to take advantage of doing laundry for a cheaper price by going to a laundry mat in town, or maybe by going to a friend's place off-campus to do laundry there, possibly for free.
Students already have so many other fees to worry about, along with homework, their jobs and even families.
Let the school take away one more concern by allowing students unlimited access to the laundry room, because the students will pay for it one way or another.
Open up Cougar Village laundry to 24 hours a day just like the dorms, and let students enjoy a luxury without wondering where their laundry money will come from.
The school should get its money for laundry anyway in a plan that will benefit both the students and SIUE.
There is something that the school can do about this: have students pay upfront for laundry for the entire semester at the beginning.
Students spend, if they wash their clothes every week and a half to two weeks, $4 per week for every 15 weeks per semester, in essence, approximately $60.
What is annoying is the fact that a student must always have cash on them and put money on their Cougar Card every single time to do laundry.
Why not allow the student to set up a meal plan-like account with the school, pay at the beginning of the semester, and be able to wash clothes an unlimited number of times?
The university would ensure they make the maximum amount of money off each student, and the student wouldn't have to worry about coming up with a couple of bucks just to wash clothes.
If students were allowed to have an account for laundry, other than the regular debit plan already used, that would remove their temptation to try to find other, cheaper Laundromats.
SIUE, like any other school, has many fees that students do not even know exist or exactly what their money is going to benefit.
Well, students may as well pay a flat fee to use the laundry services if they are going to have to pay $4 every time they go to do laundry anyway.
Some people on campus try to take advantage of doing laundry for a cheaper price by going to a laundry mat in town, or maybe by going to a friend's place off-campus to do laundry there, possibly for free.
Students already have so many other fees to worry about, along with homework, their jobs and even families.
Let the school take away one more concern by allowing students unlimited access to the laundry room, because the students will pay for it one way or another.
Open up Cougar Village laundry to 24 hours a day just like the dorms, and let students enjoy a luxury without wondering where their laundry money will come from.
The school should get its money for laundry anyway in a plan that will benefit both the students and SIUE.
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Zack Ziaja
posted 8/30/07 @ 11:30 AM CST
NO. Just No.
Doug S.
posted 8/30/07 @ 4:26 PM CST
As usual great input Zack
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