Jessica Rude was fed up with the design on the walls of her dorm floor, so she and her neighbors attacked it with spoons. Hoxie House residents in Linden Hall scraped sections of paint off their hallway with spoons in hopes of getting it repainted, said Rude, freshman in animal science. The Department of Residence hasn’t charged anyone for damages, said Director of Residence Randy Alexander, but charges could arise if participants’ names are given and the allegations are proven. Alexander said the department has spent “a lot of money” on repainting the residence halls, but they would like to keep a three-year rotation for each floor. Hoxie House just ended its third year without being repainted, so this year they put in a request for fresh paint, said Amy Fullerton, Hoxie House resident assistant. Fullerton, senior in marketing, said she explained to her residents that ISU services would have to come and look at the walls before they would be repainted since the Department of Residence repaints hallways based on need. Poor paint jobs are touched up first. “I explained the situation of them having to come and look at the walls first, so I think the girls interpreted that as if they made the walls look bad, they’d get painted sooner,” Fullerton said. Fullerton said when she returned to her floor after doing rounds in Linden Hall on Aug. 30, there were patches of paint missing from the wall and paint chips on the carpet. The largest chipped spot on the wall was about three or four feet long and a foot and half wide, she said. Fullerton reported the incident to the Department of Residence. She said she didn’t know for sure who was involved, so no names were put on the report. The janitorial and maintenance staffs have the ability to charge the floor for any clean-up costs, Fullerton said. The janitorial staff is not charging Hoxie, but she hasn’t heard back from the maintenance staff. “I felt disrespected and that they disrespected the Department of Residence by taking matters into their own hands,” she said. Rude has admitted to removing paint from the walls. “We thought if it looked a little worse than it did already that maybe they would come and paint it for us,” she said. The road design currently painted in her hallway was “annoying and ugly,” Rude said, and she wanted to see what was underneath. “It got really bad when I brought out spoons,” she said. “If I had a paint scraper, I would have used that. I think its really stupid that they won’t let us prime the walls and paint them white ourselves.” Katie Wallace, sophomore in mathematics, wouldn’t comment on whether she participated in the paint removal. However, she said it’s frustrating that the department hasn’t painted the walls white. “They have to paint the walls white before we can do anything and we don’t know when they are going to paint them,” she said. “It’s frustrating because we want to paint our theme on the wall.” An assessment of damages to ISU residence halls will start next week and end around Oct. 1. The facility tours allow Alexander and other staff members to prioritize the order in which repairs will be made, said Karen Kellogg, facilities manager. “We’re on a budget, so we need to paint the worst areas first,” she said. “This year we are placing more emphasis and money on the aesthetics of residence halls.”