This semester, Andrés Rico will be blogging about all things broke and unsafe at SF State.

If you're a guy and you haven't noticed the big bathroom in the Cesar Chavez
Student Center is out of commission, --please let me know where to go about my
business without having to wait in line. If you are a woman, for now you are safe,
but bathroom changes in the building are about to affect you as well.

For the first time in 35 years, the restrooms in the Cesar Chavez Student Center are
being renovated. Though the past years have seen the installation of touch less
sinks (quickly replaced with normal ones) and automatic paper towel dispensers, it
seems the building management is doing a complete overhaul.

The project, in progress since the beginning of this semester, will cost $176,000 for
the men's room and $154,000 for the women's room, according to Guy
Dalpe, the managing director of the building.

The new men's room is set to be finished by the end of October, at which time, it
will be opened to women, while the renovation project starts on their old bathroom.
The estimated time of completion for the women's bathroom is the end of January
2011.

The renovation includes the installation of a separate unisex single occupant
bathroom adjacent to the entrances of both the women's and men's bathrooms.

Until next semester, I'll continue to search for a convenient spot that won't get me in
trouble for taking too long with my boss or with my bladder.