By Chelsea Reil

Despite recent media reports that people residing in the residential half of the YMCA live in deplorable conditions, the Northeastern administration has not received any complaints from the students who live in the building, said Bob Jose, associate dean and director of residential life.

“We have not had one complaint from the YMCA [this year] – not from parents, not from students,” Jose said. “We haven’t had any issues at all. It’s really strange.”

Oscar Roman, a sophomore business management major and transfer student, has lived in the YMCA since September and has a different view on the situation. There are unwanted visitors in the building all the time, he said: mice.

“The guys across the hall have traps and stuff, but there’s no point,” Roman said. “You might be able to trap one, but they just keep coming.”

The building is old, but the workers keep the place relatively clean, said Roman, who has put in three work requests this year about the presence of rodents. Facilities workers do what they can in order to fix the problems, he said.

Roman said his view of Northeastern and his experience at college have not been negatively affected by his living conditions at the YMCA.

“I’m told this happens at a lot of colleges, but that’s definitely one of the gripes we all have. Why did we get stuck at the ‘Y?,'” Roman said. “I don’t think the housing situation has been completely horrible.