She taps her toes and rolls her eyes. Once in a while she’ll catch another person’s eye and exchange exasperated looks.

Schwooo.

Click.

Another stall opens up and relieves her of her wait. She steps up and goes into the vacant bathroom stall.

On the ground level of Winston Hall, girls line up between classes to use the two toilets. According to an observation on a Friday between 10:00 and 10:15 a.m., at least four women were waiting at all times and five decided that using the restroom was not worth the wait.

“It’s obnoxious when you only have 15 minutes between classes,” Leigh Allen, a junior in psychology, said.

Edward Funkhouser, College of Humanities and Social Sciences facilities coordinator, said the problem concerns him.

“I am sure the issue is similar to what I see outside to 124 Dabney,” Funkhouser said.

Funkhouser said there is a sign at the bathroom near Dabney Hall 124 informing those waiting in line where other facilities are located in building.

“I’ll make a sign myself and make sure it is put up,” Funkhouser said.

Sign or not, the bathroom situation is an inconvenience to more than just the students.

“Waiting in line is bad for the University because it can make you late for class and disturb the professor,” April Swarey, a graduate student in English, said.

The Winston Hall bathrooms meet the 1998 building codes, according to Lisa Johnson, associate university architect. In 1998, her office did a count and found “Winston Hall met the fixture count in women’s fixtures and exceeded what was required in men’s fixtures by six.”

Funkhouser does not have any say in how many toilets are put in a building. When a building is renovated or built, a meeting is held with the architects. They ask what the college wants for classrooms, seating and offices, but “tells us about the bathrooms,” Funkhouser said.

“I just think they should have more stalls,” Maria Tergliafera, a freshman in business management, said.

According to Funkhouser, plans for renovating the Winston Hall bathrooms are not in the immediate future.

“In the short run, we can redirect people to other restrooms,” Funkhouser said. “Winston will be due for some sort of renovation in a couple of years.”

He does not know what the renovations will be or if they will affect bathrooms, but the building will be assessed.

Funkhouser said the problem is like the one at the Winston computer lab. People would line up and wait for a free computer when there were other labs in the building. He said they put signs up informing students of the other labs, rectifying the problem.

According to Johnson, “there is more of an issue with women’s fixture count than men’s on north campus,” and students agree.

“[The problem] is gender-specific because I don’t see a line in the men’s room,” Swarey said.

However, if the problem is like the one in Dabney, it is not gender-specific. Funkhouser said even the men’s bathroom outside of Dabney Hall 124 is “very crowded.”

When Winston Hall undergoes its next renovation, the bathroom facilities will be assessed to make sure they meet the current code, according to Funkhouser.