Barnard housing crisis
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 (due to successive class size increases without commensurate expansion of facilities).
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 had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in 2009, it had guaranteed them housing in the 2011 contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active.[3][4]
Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and Dean Hinkson wrote an email[5] and there were town halls[6], and unsurprisingly 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
