Some of the comfort in coming home after a long day of classes and schoolwork is entering your room, a sacred place where you hope everything is just right.

The same holds true for the safety felt in slipping into bed for the night.

In both of these instances, some strange invader crawling through your room or in your bed can totally undermine the feeling of safety that a home should afford.

In the past few weeks residents in East and South halls have reported insect problems, from cockroaches to blood-sucking bed bugs.

Students already have to be packed into overcrowded dormitories, and making them share their personal space with pests is flat-out unacceptable.

Insects like fleas -- not a known problem at Penn State -- carried a little something called the Plague back in the day, and although students aren't dropping like flies on campus from insect-carried pathogens, sanitary issues have to be a concern.

No one should be subjected to being bitten in his or her sleep by an insect or to share a room with roaches.

The real shame is that the university is not seemingly concerned about this issue. Apparently cockroaches are standard around here, and there is nothing that can be done. On top of that, no one has been reporting the problem to ResLife. What will it take to bring insect infestations to the attention of the university until it must find a solution? Let's hope an outbreak isn't the only thing that gets the administration's attention.

Students on campus should expect clean living conditions, and with tuition prices already quite elevated, room and board should cover insect removal. Though it could be a logistical nightmare to spray each and every dorm room, you can bet if this problem happened in an apartment the landlord would hear about it. Then he would be forced to do something about a bug problem to keep his tenants happy and healthy, yet somehow our administration doesn't have to adhere to this type of relationship with students on campus.

While a permanent solution to a potential bug problem could be nearly impossible to come by, the least that the university could do was deal with it like it was a serious issue -- not just ignoring it and sweeping it under the rug.

In the meantime, Penn State students living on campus should sleep tight. And remember, it's not the university's problem if the bed bugs bite.