Heavily secured toilet paper in Siemens Hall. John Ferrara.

The great Humboldt State toilet paper famine of 2016 has ended.

Director of Housing and Residence Life Steve St. Onge tells the Outpost that toilet paper is flowing freely to all campus residents once again.

The announcement comes weeks after student protests heaped national attention onto the university when administrators decided to stop supplying doo-doo paper to all residence halls with private restrooms.

St. Onge said that the decision was a matter of privacy, and was not necessarily a money saving measure.

“We clean and maintain the bathrooms in traditional residence halls. But apartment and suite style residences have more independence, we don’t clean those,” St. Onge said. “It’s like we were going into their personal space. So we decided we weren’t going to continue delivering cases of toilet paper and violate their personal space.”

However, KRCR news quotes an HSU associate housing director saying that cost was a factor. Furthermore, toilet paper was never placed directly into private bathrooms by housing staff. Instead, T.P. was typically put in secure common areas like laundry rooms, where students could stock up on the white stuff as needed.

Either way, the university has given in to the students’ demands, and St. Onge said that the campus will soon be notified via email.

“We heard students say that it’s hard to get to the store at times, or that it would be helpful, so that’s how decided [to offer the toilet paper again],” St. Onge said. “It is available now.”

Campus residents can now pick up free toilet paper at the Resident Housing Association office, or the Housing and Residence Life desk on the second floor of the Jolly Giant Commons.

Happy wiping!