Cruel and...unusual

We made the news (the main story on the website, even!). It's almost never good when that happens...

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ST. PETERSBURG — As if preparing for this week's final exams isn't stressful enough, several students living at a University of South Florida St. Petersburg dorm say they've been without hot water for weeks.
And rumor has it that the cold showers might continue at the seven-story building through the rest of the semester.
"For residents to be paying over $3300 a semester and to lack such a basic necessity is a borderline criminal activity*," student Philip Takacs-Senske wrote in an e-mail to the residence hall staff, which he forwarded to the St. Petersburg Times Monday. "There are a multitude of sick students in the dorms and the university is further endangering their welfare by subjecting them to nothing but cold showers."
Eloise Leng, a mother of one of the students living at the 95-unit Residence Hall One, said she was outraged, as her daughter has complained about the cold water for two weeks.

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Now, according to the article, this has been a problem since Thursday, the 3rd. Doing some simple math, this is the 7th, so that is 4 days, not two weeks. I have to wonder why they insisted on using an artist's drawing of a building that has been open since 2006, as well.


*That is...interesting...logic?