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Post by CharlotteCat on Dec 1, 2020 20:10:14 GMT -5
We have $80 million for this but not one penny for athletic facilities. Idiots! In all fairness, they do have a way to pay for this, it's called student housing fees. They don't have a good way to pay for $80 million on athletic facilities. Just because you can't do athletic facilities, doesn't mean you should not upgrade dorm space.
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Dec 1, 2020 20:59:08 GMT -5
We have $80 million for this but not one penny for athletic facilities. Idiots! In all fairness, they do have a way to pay for this, it's called student housing fees. They don't have a good way to pay for $80 million on athletic facilities. Just because you can't do athletic facilities, doesn't mean you should not upgrade dorm space. There is no will to get anything for athletics. Other schools have done it using bond money just like this project was paid for. They paid for it with increased ticket sales and student fees. You are letting the BOT off the hook. They are paying for these dorms with housing fees that will be used as payment so we will not have those fees to spend on other things for the university so they are trading those future revenues for new dorms now which were really not needed at the expense of tearing down 2 perfectly good functional dorms. I don’t see other schools tearing down their high rise dorms.
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Post by CharlotteCat on Dec 1, 2020 21:12:30 GMT -5
In all fairness, they do have a way to pay for this, it's called student housing fees. They don't have a good way to pay for $80 million on athletic facilities. Just because you can't do athletic facilities, doesn't mean you should not upgrade dorm space. There is no will to get anything for athletics. Other schools have done it using bond money just like this project was paid for. They paid for it with increased ticket sales and student fees. You are letting the BOT off the hook. They are paying for these dorms with housing fees that will be used as payment so we will not have those fees to spend on other things for the university so they are trading those future revenues for new dorms now which were really not needed at the expense of tearing down 2 perfectly good functional dorms. I don’t see other schools tearing down their high rise dorms. Come on, how many times do you have to say the same thing over and over? By now, even a casual reader to this board knows how you feel, what is accomplished by saying the same things in every thread? Certainly, the AD, the chancellor and BOT turned you off a long time ago, so you accomplish nothing but give them reasons to dig in deeper, just to piss you off.
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Dec 2, 2020 7:50:57 GMT -5
There is no will to get anything for athletics. Other schools have done it using bond money just like this project was paid for. They paid for it with increased ticket sales and student fees. You are letting the BOT off the hook. They are paying for these dorms with housing fees that will be used as payment so we will not have those fees to spend on other things for the university so they are trading those future revenues for new dorms now which were really not needed at the expense of tearing down 2 perfectly good functional dorms. I don’t see other schools tearing down their high rise dorms. Come on, how many times do you have to say the same thing over and over? By now, even a casual reader to this board knows how you feel, what is accomplished by saying the same things in every thread? Certainly, the AD, the chancellor and BOT turned you off a long time ago, so you accomplish nothing but give them reasons to dig in deeper, just to piss you off. I am sure the groups you mention do not care and have never cared about what I think. I have no delusion that they care what any of us think or want. Also, they are not concerned about this message board or anyone on it. I don’t expect anything to change at Western as far as athletics are concerned and neither should you or anyone else. I wish it would change for the better but it will not because it is not a priority. I just feel sorry for the student athletes that we dupe into coming to Western because those folks and their families are the ones being lied to and short changed by the so called leadership.
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Post by CharlotteCat on Dec 2, 2020 7:58:18 GMT -5
Come on, how many times do you have to say the same thing over and over? By now, even a casual reader to this board knows how you feel, what is accomplished by saying the same things in every thread? Certainly, the AD, the chancellor and BOT turned you off a long time ago, so you accomplish nothing but give them reasons to dig in deeper, just to piss you off. I am sure the groups you mention do not care and have never cared about what I think. I have no delusion that they care what any of us think or want. Also, they are not concerned about this message board or anyone on it. I don’t expect anything to change at Western as far as athletics are concerned and neither should you or anyone else. I wish it would change for the better but it will not because it is not a priority. I just feel sorry for the student athletes that we dupe into coming to Western because those folks and their families are the ones being lied to and short changed by the so called leadership. Tell me in what way you think the student athletes recruited by WCU are being lied to? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not their own facts. Give me one example of a student athlete that was lied to, not what you think, but a real, concrete lie that was told.
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Post by scottbeach on Dec 4, 2020 7:17:59 GMT -5
tearing down 2 perfectly good functional dorms.
Nope, that era of communal living is over. Young people today don't want it. Certainly not in high rise buildings with no A/C. What they want, at best, is a private sleeping room with common area and shared bath. I'm not sure how much remodeling Harrill cost but App St opted not to do so when they targeted similarly aged dorms across from the stadium lot.
Scott was always hot as hell. It caught all the afternoon sun. There is a reason Scott Beach could open as early as late Feb. I ran a fan in the window 24 hrs a day for four years with the middle window cracked open.
I spent a lot of time in Scott and have fond memories of my home away from home but I understand why its gone.
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Post by The Cats on Dec 21, 2020 15:43:30 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2021 12:17:19 GMT -5
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Mar 6, 2021 14:50:37 GMT -5
What a total waste of $80 million dollars. Only school in America that tears down perfectly good 45 year old dorms just because they want to change the look of the campus. Many schools have similar dorms and they don’t do this. Poor leadership on display.
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Post by bonsaiburke on Mar 6, 2021 22:28:04 GMT -5
What a total waste of $80 million dollars. Only school in America that tears down perfectly good 45 year old dorms just because they want to change the look of the campus. Many schools have similar dorms and they don’t do this. Poor leadership on display. What? The dorms were sketchy when I was there 16 years ago. I can't imagine what kind of shape they were in before being torn down.
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