Care of the Hall

[Bolaji O]

Dear Jordan North,

I'm glad that each and everyone of you live here-both the ones I see all the time and the ones I barely see. I mean that.

To the person who threw up in the hallway:

First, I sincerely hope that you're alright. Please let me know if you need anything. I, too, have been wanting to throw-up lately. (Too soon to joke? Sorry, I have to get through this somehow). Please do take care of yourself.

At the same time, when you have taken care of yourself, please do not leave vomit in the hallway for Jesus or Billy depending on who works on our hall that day to clean up in the morning. While they are employed as custodial workers to maintain the building as a whole-they are none of our personal cleaners and it is disrespectful to leave vomit for them to clean-up just because it's in the hallway. I hope this tension makes sense. In our own homes when we get sick we address our illness and then we or someone close to us cleans up when we feel better-we don't leave it there-hopefully so let's please not to it here. Also, this is a shared space and it's not fair to your fellow housemates to have to deal with that.

I hope that you all are well. Please let me know if you need anything.

Warmly,

Bolaji

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Harvard Divinity School, c/o 2014

Harvard College Black Christian Fellowship, Staff

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