Comments on: Eastern Nazarene College: students cannot bring in ANY used furniture

By: hopelessnomo

hopelessnomo — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:55:16 +0000

I think this is smart. I imagine it’s very difficult to keep an infestation in a dorm room contained. And when it spreads it becomes so expensive to control.

There may be other common sense rules like this that would help elsewhere. I’d like to see airlines prohibiting passengers bringing their own pillows on board, for example.

By: parakeets

parakeets — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:27:06 +0000

I feel hopeful college students and their parents will be vanguards in speaking up about bedbugs. They are a group exposed to bedbugs do not have to protect a financial infrastructure as people in the real estate and hotel industries do. They do not have to “deflect” when the subject of bedbugs is brought up.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:46:25 +0000

HI Keets!

You’re right–I’d missed that in the article. I suspect, as you do, that it’s many more, but even a 50x increase is terrible.

Word does seem to be spreading. Even the kids’ and parents’ reactions to this rule are proof to me that people are starting to get it. Luckily ENC did not have to experience bed bugs to start thinking about them, as so many other individuals and institutions have had to.

By: parakeets

parakeets — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:12:50 +0000

Fox news in Boston covered this story.

Odd that the newspaper article said “Pest control companies who may have received one or two bedbug calls a year now say they are getting one or two a week, according to the National Pest Management Association.” I’m sure the statistics are much higher than one or two bedbug calls a week per pest control company. Even so, does this statistic from the NPMA mean that the number of bedbug calls are now 50 times what they used to be? Why isn’t that news getting out?