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| − | The 2012 '''Barnard Housing Crisis''' was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY 2012-2013. As its name implies, it has to do with [[Barnard]] and its lack of housing. | + | The 2012 '''Barnard Housing Crisis''' was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY 2012-2013. As its name implies, it has to do with [[Barnard]] and its lack of [[housing]]. |
The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future Plimpton single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing. | The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future Plimpton single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing. | ||
Revision as of 13:19, 3 October 2012
The 2012 Barnard Housing Crisis was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY 2012-2013. As its name implies, it has to do with Barnard and its lack of housing.
The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future Plimpton single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.[1] As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing.
On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave which told them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.[2] On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only did Barnard guarantee returning students housing in 2009, it had guaranteed them housing in their 2011 contracts, and then went ahead and changed those contracts in the middle of the summer, within the terms those contracts stipulated.[3][4]
Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and Dean Hinkson wrote an email[5] and there were town halls[6], and no changes.
References
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/
- ↑ http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall
