Howard University student protest -- rats, roaches, mold in student housing for $50k/yr

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t they get a $40 mil donation recently?

No one gives money to improve aging infrastructure. Big gifts like this are always earmarked for something specific—scholarships, a new academic center, research, professorships. And when gifts are for capital projects, it’s never dorms; donors get excited about state-of-the art academic buildings, stadiums, etc.

Mold remediation comes out of operating budget.

Is that true? When we've toured colleges with our kids, more often than not the dorms have naming rights to donors. A famous example would be Princeton, where former eBay CEO Margaret Whitman, donated $30M for her own dorm. Houses 500 kids.

Horrible comparison... That's PRINCETON this is howard.

[Anonymous]

Howard has always been an administrative mess. There are other HBCUs (Morehouse and Spelman) that I would heartily recommend attending because the student experience is terrible at Howard and admin doesn't care...it sort of coasts on its reputation and defenders and that's that.

It's the NYU of HBCUs. The experience is very, very similar.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

Pest and mold problems are not the norm...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

Which universities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not Surprised. Worse than Georgetown honestly.

not possible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

Which universities?

Unfortunately, it can any two universities in the country. A lot of these dorms are decades old. Schools want to spent their money on research facilities, not remodeling old buildings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not Surprised. Worse than Georgetown honestly.

not possible

You forgot to mention UVA.

You seem to inject the same old nonsense whenever tangentially possible.

Absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

Which universities?

Unfortunately, it can any two universities in the country. A lot of these dorms are decades old. Schools want to spent their money on research facilities, not remodeling old buildings.

+1

True of many universities. I am shocked that more DCUM posters don't know this.

Well, maybe not so shocked......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

Pest and mold problems are not the norm...

+1. Lived in very old dorms at a well known school and did not have to deal with pest or mold. Don’t accept terrible living conditions, especially if money is getting diverted to other frills.

[Anonymous]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/us/howard-university-protests-dorm-conditions/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

Tell us you are some six figure hack at Howard without telling us you’re a six figure hack at Howard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have two kids at two different universities. Both have pest and mold problems. Seems to be the norm. Not sure why Howard feels special.

Tell us you are some six figure hack at Howard without telling us you’re a six figure hack at Howard.

Mold is not the norm at top universities but roaches, mice, and rats are. Have kids at 2 Ivies. I went to a big state school. We have mold and roaches. Never say rodents.

[Anonymous]

My son is at UVA. They have roaches and mice. No rats have been seen inside the dorms. We tell him to sleep with his mouth closed. Seriously, it's 4 years. I dealt with it in college. He can too. The education will be worth it and we will move him off campus his junior year.

My daughter would spend summers at UMD lax camp. Their dorms have mold and roaches.