Among the prose and poetry scrawled across the insides of bathroom stalls, one stanza reads: "If you sprinkle when you tinkle/be a sweetie, wipe the seatie." Distasteful or not, this clean-up-after-yourself attitude is a good one to carry, especially in the days to come.

Campus Support Services, which provides custodial services on campus, has received a 10 percent cut in funding, according to CSS Director Delma Munoz. But custodians are still expected to help maintain the same level of cleanliness inside and outside of classrooms for less pay.

Yet fears of an unsightly campus should be the least of anyone's worries. Janitors tend to be under-appreciated as is, and the custodial staff is among the last who should take a pay cut.

At least one professor is looking beyond his own wallet.

"Cutting 10 percent of my salary is lousy, but I will get by," said Prof. Saul Steier, humanities department chair. "Cutting 10 percent of [custodians' salaries] puts them dangerously close to not being able to pay rent and feed their families."

While the average college professor earns between $45,000 and $76,000 annually, the average custodial service job in San Francisco only pays almost half as much -- between $28,000 and $39,000, according to PayScale, an online database of global employee salaries.

But a single adult needs at least $28,000 for basic needs such as housing, food and transportation, according to the 2007 California Budget Project report. This figure doubles for a single parent family, needing an income of almost $60,000 to cover these same costs. With two working parents, the annual household income should be more than $72,000.

Equal cuts across the board do not work when staff and administration did not earn equal amounts to begin with. Senate Bill 217 would have prevented pay increases for executives in both the UC and CSU systems. It was buried without a vote on August 27.

How is this fair?

Some may argue that some people's jobs are more important than others. But whether or not you believe that, no one can argue that everyone deserves to be able to take care of themselves and their families.