Complex sentence: The college's chemistry don, E. J. Bowen, had to clean paint off the statue, for example, and the room it is housed in has at one point been flooded and infested with goldfish.
Split into simpler sentences: The college's chemistry don, E. J. Bowen, had to clean paint off the statue, for example. The room it is housed in has also been flooded and infested with goldfish.