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For the University, the safety of students may have been the biggest concern, but for the students <br />still on campus, not being able to use the bathroom was a big worry. <br />Rick Bradley, associate director of the Department of Housing and Residential Education, said the <br />University put up signs in the dorms prohibiting any water use which included using the bathrooms. <br />Alert Carolina messages were sent out to students to reinforce the no bathroom use. <br />“We were never worried about the students using their bathrooms," Bradley said. "We trusted that <br />they would listen to us like any good citizen would." <br />He said there were nearly 100 port-a-johns brought in and placed near residential communities all <br />around campus. <br />Finding sources for food and drinking water was also a concern. Rams Head Dining Hall and Rams <br />Head Market were the only open places on campus serving food. <br />Employees at the dining hall handed out almost 9,000 bottles of water to students as they came in <br />to the dining hall this weekend, Haxton said. <br />Hunter Stegall, food chef at Rams Head Dining Hall, said the staff had to go through the menu and <br />figure out what needed to be changed based on the new circumstances. There was no water to <br />wash raw chicken. There was no water to boil pasta or rice. <br />“We changed chicken to roast pork loin, we made bacon potato corn chowder with all milk and we <br />took rice off the menu and added tater tots, which the students loved,” Stegall said. <br />Learning from this past weekend, Haxton said the University gathered how much water the dining <br />hall needed to hand out to students and how much water was needed to provide people still on <br />campus with food, so it will have an action plan moving forward. <br />“We’ve never really had to worry about a plan such as this, which is exactly why they call it a crisis,” <br />Haxton said. <br />