The Bakeless Center for Humanities, known among students as the English and literature academic building, has had multiple ceiling leaks and heating issues in the past week. The classrooms experiencing the majority of troubles are 306 and 207, and the main stairway of the building has four haphazard puddles of sewage water, dripping down from above and forcing students and faculty to use the elevator or side stairs for their safety.  

Room 306 has a pipe that extends from a hole in the ceiling to down along the front classroom wall, draining murky yellow water into a bucket on the floor. And ceiling leaks of the main stairwell have occasionally issued a wet floor sign to block the main stairwell from being used. There is also Room 207, which is some degrees colder than the rest of the building. A professor stated that the heating AC unit was so loud that he “practically had to shout” in order to be heard.  

Bucket collecting one leak in Bakeless (Elizabeth Mauser)

Roman Ring, sophomore English secondary Education major, stated Bakeless has always had a cooler temperature. Along with the various ceiling leaks throughout the building and cramped classrooms, they urge the campus community to give up on the building entirely. “Say goodbye to Bakeless – it’s gonna fall apart.”  

The building was established in 1970, before the construction of popular buildings such as Scranton Commons and Kehr Student Union. Since then, it has served Bloomsburg University as its primary English and literature academic building and also houses the Writing and Literacy Engagement Studio (WALES) on its second floor.  

Bakeless is one of many buildings Bloomsburg campus in need of maintenance. The Games Room in Kehr Student Union; Luzerne and Columbia Residence halls; The Voice’s very own office; and many more locations have pipes exposed due to large holes in the ceiling. Soltz Hall, one of the university’s newer renovation projects, isn’t safe either – one of two elevators broke down last semester, and still is not fixed.