Brittney Keith

Freshman Brittney Keith is one of the students living in Baynes Hall who has found herself with a hot head in a cold shower.

Charles Messick, who lives in Chidley Hall, has the same problem—no hot water.

Billy Deaver, steam plant supervisor, said Baynes Hall’s water problem is that students take long showers. “Baynes uses eight electric heaters to heat approximately 900 gallons of water per minute and when the hot water runs out, the heaters cannot recover fast enough,” he said.

“In Chidley Hall, the problem is with the conversion of hot water due to a leak in the heat exchanger, which holds steam in the water to keep it hot.”

But George McGhee, NCCU steam plant maintenance supervisor said the problem is not new.

“There has always been inconsistency with hot water in the dormitories,” he said.

“The students would get hot water if they let the water run a while and not to jump right in.”

“I think the water problem is a great inconvenience and I really don’t appreciate it because I pay tuition here. It sucks,” said Keith.

According to Deaver, the dorm will be upgraded this summer. New converters will be put in although an improvement is not gauranteed. “The high-rises have more sinks more showers and washing machines, more people using water as oppose to the smaller dorms that is why they encounter more hot water shortage” says Deaver.

Messick said “People in Chidley have to go to Latham and other dorms to shower that’s terrible and so inconvenient.”