By: Kimberly Juhas (Whetstone Contributor)

One night last semester, Livia DeMarco was returning from Loockerman to her room in Malmberg Hall when she noticed something dark in the light cover in the elevator.

She thought perhaps it was a dead bird, and poked at t.

She found out later it wasn’t a dead bird.

“I thought it was a bird, not a steaming hot turd,” she said.

It was just the latest in a rash of incidents she and other residents had noticed in the elevator.

“During another incident, we discovered two non-student guests damaging the light cover,” said head of security, Walter Beaupre. “They were also intoxicated and

we had them arrested by Dover police.”

Some Wesley students were unaware of what’s been going on in Malmberg.

“I didn’t know there was a pooping scandal in Malmberg,” said junior Les Ragan, a Malmberg resident. “I know they put a video camera in the elevator because people were vandalizing it.”

While the identity of the pooping perpetrator is unknown, many students said they blame Wesley security for their lack of sufficient safety patrolling.

“I think security should do a better job at making this campus safer for us students in general,” Ragan said.

Several students said they were dismayed that non-students were walking into any given place and vandalizing property.

“Honestly, as a person who lived in Malmberg last year, that’s really sad that people so blatantly disvalue the property in which they invest a great deal of money into,” said junior Travis Ragland, a Zimmerman hall resident.

Because of the damage, Malmberg residents lost their elevator privileges for about a month.

Since Wesley installed a video camera in the elevator, it has been spotless, said junior Lindsey Martin. She and others were able to use the elevator when the resident dorms opened back up after the holidays.

“The poop has been sent to the lab and we are awaiting the DNA results,” joked Beaupre.