{"id":10593,"date":"2015-05-13T06:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:19:00","slug":"microwave-maintenance-making-waves-at-camosun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/05\/13\/microwave-maintenance-making-waves-at-camosun\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwave maintenance making waves at Camosun"},"content":{"rendered":"

The microwaves on both Camosun campuses are a bit of a hot potato when it comes to the daily cleaning and maintenance they need, according to the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS).<\/p>\n

The maintenance work is divided between CCSS staff and Camosun College custodial workers, but the CCSS says that somewhere in the division communication is lost and students suffer.<\/p>\n

CCSS student services representative Michael Glover says that providing microwaves for students is important.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a necessary resource for a lot of Camosun students, as not everyone can afford to buy food at school,\u201d says Glover.<\/p>\n

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The student society\u2019s Michael Glover expresses his microwave concerns (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Glover has noticed a large number of old microwaves on campus and suspects people have been using Camosun to rid themselves of their old kitchen appliances. Camosun has also installed new microwaves, creating a tricky situation in regards to who is responsible for cleaning what.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe student society has a small number of microwaves that we are responsible for,\u201d says Glover. \u201cHowever, the college has installed a bunch of new microwaves, and that\u2019s a whole other job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CCSS and Camosun recently had a preliminary meeting to assess the scope of the issue. It was just the first of many meetings, says Brian Calvert, Camosun\u2019s associate director of facilities.<\/p>\n

Calvert says that he\u2019s known for a while that the maintenance of campus microwaves needs direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe college is looking into some way to fix the problem,\u201d says Calvert. \u201cThere is still a great deal of work that has to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lot of information still needs to be gathered before any solid plans can be made, says Calvert.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more than just microwaves we have to look at,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are all kinds of third-party appliances to take into account, so it\u2019s a big undertaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

First year Environmental Technology student John McGoff uses the Fisher building microwave on a daily basis. He says he\u2019s thought about taking matters into his own hands because of the state of the microwaves on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be nice to see them a bit cleaner,\u201d says McGoff. \u201cSometimes I want to clean them myself but I don\u2019t really know what the protocol is for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calvert says that the college hopes to have a new management plan and guidelines in place for September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The microwaves on both Camosun campuses are a bit of a hot potato when it comes to the daily cleaning and maintenance they need, according to the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS). The maintenance work is divided between CCSS staff and Camosun College custodial workers, but the CCSS says that somewhere in the division communication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-may-13-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions\/10595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}