Yale Daily News

While I never shared your squeamishness for this act, I must suggest one more rule of thumb:

Never turn on a dryer with someone else's clothes in it! You may think you're doing them a favor but maybe just maybe they have something in their load that isn't supposed to go in the dryer, or should go at low heat. So take things out of the washer, maybe set them in a dryer, but don't turn it on!

Thanks...

"Yo’ momma ain’t around to do yo’ laundry no mo’."

hmm....i wonder if this would be considered rascist by some?

Don't worry, anonymous. I can't imagine anyone actually ponying up $$$ to pay to dry a rando's clothes :)

When I was an undergrad out in CA, a similar phenomenon began in my freshman dorm: one person folded another person's laundry when they took it out and it began a chain reaction of people "paying it forward." What is impressive is that it actually lasted a couple months before running out of steam. Anyway, nice to see that there are some good souls here at Yale too.

why is this a big deal? i just take the clothes out and put them on the cleanest surface i can find, and if someone asks me if i did it, i say yes. i don't think we should have to wait around for people who want to do laundry over the course of more than a couple of hours. while there's nothing wrong with leisurely laundry-doing, those who are so concerned with others touching their clothes should bear the burden of sitting in the room with them.

I wrote the original post requesting people to not turn on dryers for other people. You're right that it isn't a problem here at Yale because you have to pay for laundry here. I'm a grad student here and went to undergrad at another esteemed Ivy a few states down the road, where the laundry machines in the dorms were free, so people putting your clothes on high in the dryer was a constant problem!!

Why is Yale so obsessed with people being "racist"? Dropping one's R's is hardly the mark of a particular ethnic group, and even if it were, what would the implication be? That X race can't do their laundry without their mothers' help?

#4 is a joke, right? If not, it's hilarious.

I don't know if I lack the proper respect for the fairer sex, but I see no problem taking girls' clothes out as well. -a male.

To Stephen B;

Well sir, thats because you like the idea of having random girls touch your underwear and of touching random girls' underwear...correct?

Many of us don't share such sentiments