2008 Woodie Awards
Letter to the Editor
Issue date: 12/8/05 Section: Opinion
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Dear Editor,
Normally the holidays are a time for happiness and delight.
However, there will be no delight for some international students this season.
Starting this winter break all students wishing to stay in their dorm over the break, will have to pay $100.
Now, this is my fourth year living in the University Conference Center.
My freshman year was the first year the conference center was turned into a residence hall.
Never in the years I have lived here has this been an issue.
It has always been understood the conference center would stay open for breaks and residents would be allowed to stay here, which is still true.
However, now it will cost $100. The University Conference Center is a SHIP based residence hall, broken up into music, criminal justice and global cultures.
The global cultures SHIP is composed of mainly international students and as anyone knows, they can't exactly go home for a two-and-a-half-week break.
I am the secretary of hall council, and it was brought up to us at our last meeting.
With only a couple weeks left in the semester, this did not allow much time for the international students to make arrangements.
Housing was approached about this matter and dismissed it making no attempts to come to any compromise.
Some of these students have lived here for years and have come to be used to the convenience of being able to stay in their dorms over break.
In fact, it was the deciding factor in some of them deciding to live here.
Now, housing will tell you this isn't being directed at the international students and they are charging everyone who wants to stay over break, but the Jim Crowe laws were not directed at African Americans eithe.
They just happened to be affected the most, and who has to stay?
Carl Staas,
Student
Normally the holidays are a time for happiness and delight.
However, there will be no delight for some international students this season.
Starting this winter break all students wishing to stay in their dorm over the break, will have to pay $100.
Now, this is my fourth year living in the University Conference Center.
My freshman year was the first year the conference center was turned into a residence hall.
Never in the years I have lived here has this been an issue.
It has always been understood the conference center would stay open for breaks and residents would be allowed to stay here, which is still true.
However, now it will cost $100. The University Conference Center is a SHIP based residence hall, broken up into music, criminal justice and global cultures.
The global cultures SHIP is composed of mainly international students and as anyone knows, they can't exactly go home for a two-and-a-half-week break.
I am the secretary of hall council, and it was brought up to us at our last meeting.
With only a couple weeks left in the semester, this did not allow much time for the international students to make arrangements.
Housing was approached about this matter and dismissed it making no attempts to come to any compromise.
Some of these students have lived here for years and have come to be used to the convenience of being able to stay in their dorms over break.
In fact, it was the deciding factor in some of them deciding to live here.
Now, housing will tell you this isn't being directed at the international students and they are charging everyone who wants to stay over break, but the Jim Crowe laws were not directed at African Americans eithe.
They just happened to be affected the most, and who has to stay?
Carl Staas,
Student