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opinion:
our view
Get used to many
workers
We think the whole
campus would like to know Cal State Long Beach will be a better
campus when the construction is finished, both aesthetically
and health-wise, and every seventh-grader planning on coming
to CSULB will enjoy it, but that doesn't change the fact that
we, the current CSULB population, are the ones having to deal
with it now.
Ask a student who
is trying to find art supplies on campus what they think of
the construction. First, the art store isn't where it used
to be; instead rubble and fences occupy the space.
And once the student
finds the store - in its "temporary" location -
the crammed quarters offer less of a selection than the old
store, but at least the clerks still can't help you find what
you need.
Ask a student who
ate at The Outpost during the summer. There's nothing quite
like eating your chili fries beside a mountain of dirt and
having tractors coat said fries with a layer of dust to make
your day that much more special.
Ironically, the
mound of dirt, which graced The Outpost for most of the summer
and was here as late as last Friday, was magically gone come
Monday's first day of school. Hmmm.
How about Brotman
Hall? That project was scheduled to be finished before school
started. Uh, doesn't look done to us, and from the looks of
things, no completion date is in sight.
For those of you
new to CSULB, there's a beautiful fountain in the middle of
the Brotman Hall plaza - stick around a couple years, maybe
you'll get to see it.
What about Hardfact
Hill, which will be ravaged for the next two years in order
to build a new science building.
Imagine, two years
- or more - of watching bulldozers moving earth and construction
worker's cracks instead of having a friendly debate about
philosophy on the hill's slope of grass.
Closer to our hearts
here at the Forty-Niner, ask a student who was in the basement
of the SSPA building during the summer.
Trying to put out
a weekly paper during the summer while dodging air vents laid
out in the hall or having shrapnel fall from the holes in
the ceiling was quite character-building, but still not a
way to conduct business.
Or even better,
try taking a difficult final while the building shakes with
earthquake-like intensity or a mind-numbing drone of some
unknown construction tool goes on for what seems like hours.
Oh, the journalism basement had it going on this summer.
Word is some construction
crews walked off the job during the summer, causing the delays.
Think it had anything to do with the Cal State low-bid policy,
which, as the name implies, means Cal State schools must take
the low-bidder in any construction project in order to save
money.
Now we're getting
somewhere.
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