SCorp Insider
A Lack of Study Space
Conor Grennan
Issue date: 11/3/09 Section: Voices
There are few cities in the world like New York. Everybody wants to be here. Everybody wants to be downtown, in the Village. That's why we just keep building vertically and charge people nine thousand dollars a month for an apartment that can't even hold a full size refrigerator. Now, into that setting, we drop one of the planet's finest business schools, NYU Stern. It's a competitive advantage when we recruit, when we go for informational interviews, when we get out and have the world at our doorstep. But for the two years we are here, it's gonna get a little bit cramped.
My friends, it's time for us to look in the mirror. We are a tight community here at Stern, but there is one way in particular that we often fail to respect each other: using the space in the Second Floor Reading Room. There is a group of students who regularly flaunt the main rule by leaving their stuff in the cubicle and disappearing, either going to class or taking a long lunch or going to a recruiting event.
This is the single biggest complaint of the student body to SCorp. People are incredibly frustrated. And I can understand it.
These students are putting their needs above everybody else's. The rules are posted in every single cubicle, but certain students still choose to disregard them, leaving their books so that their classmates cannot sit there, even when they are gone.
So we are putting a new solution in place. Because we cannot rely on those students to self-police, we must start calling them out, and encouraging others to move their belongings, respectfully, to the side of the cubicle when they have been gone longer than 15 minutes. This will be done through a new "Parking Ticket" policy. We will elaborate on this in an upcoming email. But know that it is coming.
Please, avoid the embarrassment of coming back to your cubicle to find your stuff on the ground. Everybody will know that you're one of those people, and it is a source of frustration for many.
I'm sorry if this sounds a bit harsh. I say it out of peace and love and harmony and rainbows and lollypops.
In a second, related issue, Non-MBA students have been unlawfully entering our study space. We need to prevent this. As we said, space is tight enough as is. Here is what you can do: please do not prop doors, especially to the second floor study rooms. If you find the back door propped (the one at the end of the hallway), please un-prop it. You'll be doing your classmates a favor.
Okay, that's all. If you have any suggestions or would like to comment on any of this, please write to us at suggestions@stern.nyu.edu. We will respond the same day.
As always, we have a responsibility to be the voice of the class, and these are the issues the class is talking about. We're here to help. Thanks for listening.
My friends, it's time for us to look in the mirror. We are a tight community here at Stern, but there is one way in particular that we often fail to respect each other: using the space in the Second Floor Reading Room. There is a group of students who regularly flaunt the main rule by leaving their stuff in the cubicle and disappearing, either going to class or taking a long lunch or going to a recruiting event.
This is the single biggest complaint of the student body to SCorp. People are incredibly frustrated. And I can understand it.
These students are putting their needs above everybody else's. The rules are posted in every single cubicle, but certain students still choose to disregard them, leaving their books so that their classmates cannot sit there, even when they are gone.
So we are putting a new solution in place. Because we cannot rely on those students to self-police, we must start calling them out, and encouraging others to move their belongings, respectfully, to the side of the cubicle when they have been gone longer than 15 minutes. This will be done through a new "Parking Ticket" policy. We will elaborate on this in an upcoming email. But know that it is coming.
Please, avoid the embarrassment of coming back to your cubicle to find your stuff on the ground. Everybody will know that you're one of those people, and it is a source of frustration for many.
I'm sorry if this sounds a bit harsh. I say it out of peace and love and harmony and rainbows and lollypops.
In a second, related issue, Non-MBA students have been unlawfully entering our study space. We need to prevent this. As we said, space is tight enough as is. Here is what you can do: please do not prop doors, especially to the second floor study rooms. If you find the back door propped (the one at the end of the hallway), please un-prop it. You'll be doing your classmates a favor.
Okay, that's all. If you have any suggestions or would like to comment on any of this, please write to us at suggestions@stern.nyu.edu. We will respond the same day.
As always, we have a responsibility to be the voice of the class, and these are the issues the class is talking about. We're here to help. Thanks for listening.
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