More colleges are looking at emergency housing solutions, including have students sleeping in alumni’s homes, napping pods, Airbnbs and even an assisted living facility.
More colleges are looking at emergency housing solutions, including have students sleeping in alumni’s homes, napping pods, Airbnbs and even an assisted living facility.
Look, the money we would give our students is going towards a new football stadium okay? We’re sorry, there’s just no money for new dorms or anything.
(Actually what happened on my campus. My tuition went to a new football not even stadium but tail gating entrance area, so out of town non students could come in and drink while I lived in moldy apartments. Grand total was something like 300 million)
Oooo, this is so close to my college experience. There was a vote on funding a new stadium (for a God awful football team). The student vote failed spectacularly, and we all breathed a sigh of relief that millions weren’t going to be spent. We desperately needed additional parking (to clarify for car haters, it was a commuter school, the student population was larger than the city population). Paying a couple hundred bucks (back then) a semester to park, and not having a spot to park was awful and led to many late arrivals to class.
The student government body said lol and passed it anyway. So a new stadium was built, the old one torn down, and 25 FUCKING YEARS LATER there is still not one additional parking spot.
While I don’t like parking, I’ll say that student needs should take massive precedence over football needs. Absolutely insane that they can take student money and put it there. They view students as “We’ll always have them” but that they have to keep wowing people to come buy hot dogs. Absolutely infuriating. I also resent the fans of the football teams too, because they think they are supporting the college when really supporting the college would be not going to sporting events in protest.