2008 Woodie Awards
Once again: Being the Change
Kyle West
Issue date: 4/15/05 Section: Forum
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Everyone, at some point or another, manages to find something to get upset with Campus Life about. I've found mine. So have three of my friends. Housing.
Now, it's not like we're lazy buffoons, we just forgot to do the online application. I didn't even know about it. Yet now we're placed behind the Spring Into Guilford first-years, and that feels like a slap in the face.
We pay enough per year that even if we do miss the deadline for the online application, we should still be ahead of incoming first-years. That shouldn't even be a concern.
The issue is the online application. I understand having the paper housing application, but what's need for the online application? According to Aaron Fetrow, Associate Dean of Campus Life, the online application registers you as eligible for housing. That makes sense. Everything is on the manual application that's on the online one, yet you need to fill them both out. Same information, different mediums.
On the manual application, there's no statement saying you need to fill out another application, or do anything other than hand your current copy in. I don't want Campus Life to baby us current first-years, but we're new to this. That's not to say we can't figure it out, but why not include a sentence on the manual application, reminding students to fill out the online application if they haven't already done so?
Another thing that bothered our little housing group was that Campus Life said we had gotten the apartment, only to be told on Selection Day that we didn't. Why can't someone in Campus Life send a mass email, a day or two before the deadline, to everyone who hadn't filled out the online application? That's a reasonable request.
More reasonable than wasting paper and time printing, then placing, pamphlets in people's mailboxes. I was told repeatedly that I had one placed in my mailbox, yet when I checked it for a package, there was no such pamphlet. It's far easier and cheaper to send an email. Then everyone will get what they need, and the college will save money.
Now, it's not like we're lazy buffoons, we just forgot to do the online application. I didn't even know about it. Yet now we're placed behind the Spring Into Guilford first-years, and that feels like a slap in the face.
We pay enough per year that even if we do miss the deadline for the online application, we should still be ahead of incoming first-years. That shouldn't even be a concern.
The issue is the online application. I understand having the paper housing application, but what's need for the online application? According to Aaron Fetrow, Associate Dean of Campus Life, the online application registers you as eligible for housing. That makes sense. Everything is on the manual application that's on the online one, yet you need to fill them both out. Same information, different mediums.
On the manual application, there's no statement saying you need to fill out another application, or do anything other than hand your current copy in. I don't want Campus Life to baby us current first-years, but we're new to this. That's not to say we can't figure it out, but why not include a sentence on the manual application, reminding students to fill out the online application if they haven't already done so?
Another thing that bothered our little housing group was that Campus Life said we had gotten the apartment, only to be told on Selection Day that we didn't. Why can't someone in Campus Life send a mass email, a day or two before the deadline, to everyone who hadn't filled out the online application? That's a reasonable request.
More reasonable than wasting paper and time printing, then placing, pamphlets in people's mailboxes. I was told repeatedly that I had one placed in my mailbox, yet when I checked it for a package, there was no such pamphlet. It's far easier and cheaper to send an email. Then everyone will get what they need, and the college will save money.
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