Dear Editor,It is already bad enough that every morning I have to commute to school because of the ridiculous cost to live on campus, and then when I get here I can’t find a parking space because residential students are parking in them. Then my professor holds me after class just to tell me that I am about to get dropped, even though I turned in all of my financial aid papers, W-2 forms, 1099, and etc. early and in an orderly fashion.
Then I climb the ever-mounting stairs of the MSC all the way to the third floor just to hear that the system is down and that counselors aren’t seeing any students…”Please come back.” I sometimes wonder if I would have had to deal with such drama if I had gone to a predominantly white institution?
Probably not, but the issue is not about an HBCU or a more mainstream institution, it’s about the laziness that seems to be “acceptable” in faculty and staff. Since we are so famous for producing productive people why not hire productive people who actually do productive things except twiddling their thumbs all day.
In my opinion I pump too much money into this school to be treated as a second-class citizen! I know that I pay tuition, but my tax dollars at my part time job pays someone’s salary around here.
If I go to a restaurant and pay my money I want satisfactory service. When I go to the gas station and pay my money I want super unleaded. When I pay Verizon I want 500 min and free nights and weekends, but when I pay PV they let me down every time with unacceptable BEHAVIOR and SERVICES!
– A Graduating Senior