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Cambridge, Mass. City Council trying to do more to address bed bugs
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Blue_Ox
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Wed Oct 28 2009 23:02:10
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Cambridge has a huge transient student population with young people (who tend to like discarded furniture) moving in and out of apartments and dorms every fall and summer. The city has their work cut out for them. They need to work with all the local universities to get this problem solved as this goes beyond the housing authority buildings etc. that nobugs mentions in the blog piece (I did not click on the video.)
A friend was telling me of a Harvard freshman, born and raised all 18 years in NYC, who she encountered this fall. Just before the first day of school he was asking a local Mass. based relative to take him to Bed Bath and Beyond so he could buy a bedbug pillow protector for his pillow, because somehow he had lost the protected pillow he had started with.
Good news, right? Students already educated about the bedbug problems and being cautious? Sorry, but the story has a bad ending. As he and the relative are leaving the store with the newly purchased protectors, he launches into a story about the great week he had doing dorm crew, where students are hired onto teams to empty out dorm rooms that have been used by summer school students. One reason students love being on dorm crew is because of all the great loot they can find that summer students have left behind. He mentioned that one of his great finds was an enormous floor cushion (or some upholstered thing). So at the same moment he is dutifully shopping for a bedbug cover for the pillow as his NYC mom taught him, he is also scavenging other people's discarded cushions. Smart!
Also, MIT runs a very popular international students' furniture exchange, where last year's students can leave furniture, rugs, etc. for the incoming students.
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