Barnard housing crisis - Revision history

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	* [http://bwog.com/tag/barnard-housing-crisis/ Bwog's coverage of the Barnard Housing Crisis]		* [http://bwog.com/tag/barnard-housing-crisis/ Bwog's coverage of the Barnard Housing Crisis]

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-The 2012 '''Barnard Housing Crisis''' was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY [[2012]]-[[2013]]. As its name implies, it has to do with [[Barnard]] and its lack of [[housing]].
+A '''Barnard Housing Crisis'''  is, unfortunately for Barnard students, a recurring event.
 The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future [[Plimpton]] single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing (due to successive class size increases without commensurate expansion of facilities).
-On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave which told them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/</ref> On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in [[2009]], it had guaranteed them housing in the [[2011]] contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/</ref><ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/</ref>.
+On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave received an email telling them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/</ref> On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in [[2009]], it had guaranteed them housing in the [[2011]] contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/</ref><ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/</ref>.
 Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and [[Avis Hinkson|Dean Hinkson]] wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.

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	Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and [[Avis Hinkson\|Dean Hinkson]] wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.		Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and [[Avis Hinkson\|Dean Hinkson]] wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.
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		+	== Past Crises ==
		+	Housing shortages have been a recurring theme for Barnard students. In Fall of [[2004]], students lucked out when the College resolved a shortage by leasing two floors in the newly built [[Manhattan School of Music]] residential tower on [[122nd Street]].<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2004/09/27/barnard-wait-list-moves-students-music-school]</ref> A few months later, however, transfer students living in [[Hewitt Hall]] were kicked out of there rooms to make space for 18 first-year students who were admitted for spring enrollment<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2004/11/23/barnard-transfers-forced-out-quad]</ref>, and in Fall [[2005]], first-year students were forced to bunk in dormitory lounges at the beginning of the school year.<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2005/09/29/first-years-housed-study-lounges-barnard]</ref> Matters didn't improve in the Spring when the [[Office of Residential Life and Housing]] converted a number of 5-room suites in [[Plimpton]] into 4-room suites by reserving the fifth rooms for "contingency" plans.<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2005/04/05/plimpton-debacle-shocks-bc-students]</ref> Thanks to Columbia and Barnard's unforgiving room selection process that forces students to pick a group size and pray that a suite of corresponding size remains available by their turn to pick, this meant that students who had registered as groups of five were suddenly dealing with a 27% reduction in the number of suites they would be able to fit into, effectively throwing 12 unsuspecting groups of students out into the cold of general housing selection (who might otherwise have formed groups of different sizes).

	==References==		==References==

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 The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future [[Plimpton]] single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing (due to successive class size increases without commensurate expansion of facilities).
-On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave which told them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/</ref> On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in [[2009]], it had guaranteed them housing in the [[2011]] contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/</ref><ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/</ref>
+On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave which told them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/</ref> On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in [[2009]], it had guaranteed them housing in the [[2011]] contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/</ref><ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/</ref>.
 Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and [[Avis Hinkson|Dean Hinkson]] wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.

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 On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave which told them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/</ref> On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in [[2009]], it had guaranteed them housing in the [[2011]] contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/</ref><ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/</ref>
-Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and [[Dean Hinkson]] wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.
+Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and [[Avis Hinkson|Dean Hinkson]] wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.
 ==References==

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-The 2012 '''Barnard Housing Crisis''' was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY 2012-2013. As its name implies, it has to do with [[Barnard]] and its lack of [[housing]].
+The 2012 '''Barnard Housing Crisis''' was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY [[2012]]-[[2013]]. As its name implies, it has to do with [[Barnard]] and its lack of [[housing]].
-The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future Plimpton single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing (due to successive class size increases without commensurate expansion of facilities).
+The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future [[Plimpton]] single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing (due to successive class size increases without commensurate expansion of facilities).
-On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave which told them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/</ref> On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in 2009, it had guaranteed them housing in the 2011 contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/</ref><ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/</ref>
+On August 10th, Barnard students returning from leave which told them that they still hadn't been assigned housing, and that it wasn't guaranteed, anyways.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/10/its-fun-to-stay-at-the/</ref> On August 15 and 16, 2012, Bwog successively learned that not only had Barnard guaranteed returning students housing in [[2009]], it had guaranteed them housing in the [[2011]] contracts, and then went ahead and removed those guarantees in the middle of the summer, while the contracts were still active.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/15/returning-barnardians-were-guaranteed-housing-in-2009/</ref><ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/16/did-barnard-break-its-housing-guarantee/</ref>
-Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and Dean Hinkson wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.
+Then people got mad and wrote angry comments, and [[Dean Hinkson]] wrote an email<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/10/02/an-update-on-the-barnards-campus-housing-update/</ref> and there were town halls<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/03/barnard-admins-try-heal-trust-issues-sga-town-hall</ref>, and unsurprisingly no changes.
 ==References==
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 * [http://bwog.com/tag/barnard-housing-crisis/ Bwog's coverage of the Barnard Housing Crisis]
-[[Category:scandals]]
+[[Category:Scandals]]

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−	The 2012 '''Barnard Housing Crisis''' was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY 2012-2013. As its name implies, it has to do with [[Barnard]] and its lack of housing.	+	The 2012 '''Barnard Housing Crisis''' was a scandal that came to a head before the start of AY 2012-2013. As its name implies, it has to do with [[Barnard]] and its lack of [[housing]].

	The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future Plimpton single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing.		The situation began on August 8, 2012, when Barnard Res Life sent out an email to future Plimpton single residents letting them know that they would have roommates.<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/08/08/unlucky-sbbws-no-longer-single/</ref> As the summer went on, it became clear that Barnard did not have enough rooms for the number of students it had guaranteed housing.