So, this tagging doesn’t help anything, it serves no purpose whatsoever, other than stigmatizing. And *that’s* what the Nazi-style tagging was. So, my comparison stands.
A notice of illness does not prevent people from entering an apartment but gives them information to let them make their own decisions. Personally, I care about the people who visit me and I think it’s my responsibility to give them notice if I’m contagious to let them.
]]>The housing guarantee if of course a whole other minefield. In fact, Mr. Zeller botched that, and that was pretty much what got him fired.
UCI simply doesn’t have enough graduate housing for the housing guarantee. And everybody knew that, but Mr. Zeller lied about being able to implement it.
The litmus test for Lisa Cornish will be how honest she is about the housing guarantee. To actually being able to guarantee housing, PV, Verano and VDC are not enough. They should implement an idea that, if I remember right, came from AGS: negotiate with the Irvine Company to get a block of apartments across from Campus and subsidize it. With Bill Zeller, AGS ran into a brick wall with this, but Lisa may be more open to the idea. We’ll see.
So the VdC leases end on Sept. 6th (ridiculous, yes) and we are not being told that housing will not even get to our applications (much less be able to fill them) until as late as October. So many of us our officially homeless for two months come the beginning of September.
Housing needs a HUGE overhaul. I really have no idea how an administrative department this disorganized has functioned at all in the past.
]]>I have a great little story about the incredibly competent UCI staff… and I hope it will help those who read and maybe criticize these blogs to better understand our frustrations. I’m currently up late gathering documentation against housing in an attempt to handle the situation I’m currently in…
I’m in a 3 bdr at PV housing, only 2 of us at present. About a month ago my roommate and I received an assignment for a third roommate, but the women failed to ever contact us and we received an email that she had lost her spot on the waiting list. However, PV continued to then forward this girl and my current roommate updates about turning over the old room and mysteriously lost any documentation that I lived in the apartment.
Today at about 5:10 pm I received an incoherent email from PV Offices with some bizarre lecture about moving to graduate school being so stressful and forgetting to contact people and indicating some woman was driving from up North and would contact us???
Anyways, this is the first indication I’ve received about getting another applicant. Confused, I called my current roommate who informed me that this woman who we have never heard about entered our apartment, (while she was taking a nap, to add to her shock), and began moving into the unit. I did not even know her name let alone anything else about her, except that she smokes and we are both quite allergic. PV is conveniently closed for the day and all I hear is Kerri Sherwood will contact us sometime tomrrow.
(But luckily I’ll be in that office right at 8 am to raise hell.)
I’d like to know how this can be legal? I’d go as far to say it is grossly immoral to impose such a situation on anyone, especially when we students have our time and energies so stretched. To say PV has dropped the ball cannot even begin to describe this mess I’m in.
All the best to you and others reading this…