UNA is well-known for its breath-taking campus, but with a flux of freshman waiting in the wings for fall 2014, all eager to live the dorm life, the question is whether or not residence halls are all they’re cleaned up to be.

“I think they (students) do a good job,” said evironmental sevices specialist Eliza Fields. “I go in there and clean them but it’s my job. If they wouldn’t mess them up I wouldn’t have a job to clean up.”

Environmental services specialists on campus deal with the up-keep of the residence halls on campus.

“I clean the bathrooms, the showers, the commodes, the sinks, the hallways, the water fountains as well as the lobbies,” Fields said.

Molly Schaefer, a freshman resident of Rivers Hall, is split on her opinion.

“I think it’s kind of half and half,” Schaefer said. “I think some students are really passionate about it whereas other students don’t really care that much, but that could be just living in Rivers.”

Rivers Hall is the only freshman co-ed dorm on campus.

“It’s kind of frustrating honestly because I take so much pride in UNA, but I can’t change people’s mindset I can only take care of myself,” Schaefer said.

Students take care of the main campus because it is beautiful but the residents living in the freshman dorms do not take care of them, said senior Jasmine Redus.

“I think the university is here for the students and to some degree we should own it and take care of it but at the same time not all of it,” Schaefer said. “I can’t fix the paint on that wall but I can pick up trash.”

Usually the lobbies of the residence hall need the most attending to, Fields said.

“When we came back after the Martin Luther King Day we had off, it was kind of a mess,” Fields said. “It was a little bit more than I wanted to see but I figured they partied too hard.”

Redus thought the worst clutter she saw was during the first semester, she said.

“The biggest mess I’ve seen was during homecoming week,” Redus said. “The residence halls were a trash bin.”

Residence staff should be stricter towards the people living in residence halls to insure they follow the rules and keep them clean, Redus said.

Fields still has faith in her freshman residents.

“But you know as I say there are good apples and there are bad apples and the in-between,” Fields said. “You never know who makes the mess.”