Dear Future Residents of Lo Rise,
As the current residents of Lo Rise A1, we know oh so well the adventure you are about to embark upon next year. We thought that we would share our hopes and dreams with you in this Wespeak, where all of campus can share in our joy at leaving Lo Rise forever this spring.
We hope that none of you are seniors, forced to live in Lo Rise because residential life allows juniors to “win” the housing lottery if they have just one senior in their group.
We hope that the university will decide to install wireless in the buildings, or at least put some ethernet jacks in the common room.
We hope that Physical Plant will not be so cheap in renovating the apartments that you end up having to buy and install your own drain cover for the shower.
We hope that you never return home from the bar in mid-December, only to find that your heat and electricity have been shut off, and that Physical Plant won’t return your calls.
We hope that when you go to ResLife the next week, they have more to offer you than $100 for groceries and apologies.
We hope that your housemates’ belongings never get stolen out of your apartment in the middle of the night, and that you never discover that the reason for the break-in was that the lock was defective.
We hope that when you call Public Safety, they actually inform your RA, change your lock immediately without trying to charge you, and increase security patrols at night not three months later, but that very same day.
We hope that your fellow residents don’t decide to dump trash outside your apartment in the hopes that it will magically get picked up by phantom maids that roam A1 at night.
We also hope that strangers will not choose to scream into their cell phones and smoke under your doorway, spewing noise and smoke into your rooms.
We hope that in the future, Residential Life, Physical Plant and Public Safety will communicate with each other, make decisions that actually benefit residents, and stop screwing over quiet, community-standard-compliant students for no reason at all.
Sincerely,
Anna Pinkert, Christie Roberts, Maya Wolf, Leah Stern
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