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submitted by Jessie Tuckey
October 30, 2006 —
Like most girls on campus, I want to be in shape. So when I registered for classes last winter, I thought that a life fitness course would be a great way to get fit and learn how to stay that way.
I was nervous while walking to the Ryder Center for my first class. Would everyone else be in fantastic shape and leave me behind in their dust? Although I had been worried, this was not the problem I discovered when I began my class. The problem was that there was no classroom for me and my fellow students.
Instead, we met in the gymnasium where we would hear the day's agenda and then go and do it. This was fine and dandy until we got to a phase in the class where we were required to take exams on lectures we would be receiving.
We couldn't take notes or tests in the gym, so we were relocated to a stairwell. Week after week, we students trudged grudgingly to class only to sit in a chilly, abandoned stairwell and listen to our professor rattle off health information while we - like automatons - write in notebooks balanced precariously on our knees.
I was upset about my situation, but I foolishly thought my class was the only one. It was not until I read Mary Oakley's article in last week's Vanguard about SVSU's room shortage problem that I realized my mistake and decided to stand up and say something.
We pay good money in order to get a decent education here at Saginaw Valley. If the school is willing to pour $17 million into more housing for all of the new students coming here, it should be able to accommodate all of its current students with appropriate classrooms.
Jessie Tuckey
Student