I received a second email from David May today. It read: I copied Kathy Irla-chesney, Director of Housing on the email. She is very interested in working with you to make the right decision for all the residents at the Gables. Kathy said-“Her goal is to provide a living community that allows students to socialize while maintaining an atmosphere where those who want to sleep or study at night can do so. There are many ways we can gather feedback and ideas and move this in a positive direction. In fact it might strengthen the community.” This beings said, she would very much like to work with you to make the right decision for the Gables Community. I am hoping you could find time to meet and help us.
That sounds pretty good to me... for now. I am extremely busy right now, but I am hoping to squeeze in a meeting with them sometime next week. Please let me know what you think, especially if you are Gables or Woodsides resident. I want to present something respectable and reasonable. I am taking my time out of my schedule because I believe that 1 a.m. quiet hours on Friday and Saturday nights at the campus apartments are what most students want. I'll keep you posted as I learn and go through more.
Stay classy, not UMassy.
Update: I will be meeting with the director of housing and the director of UNH apartments next week to discuss the new quiet hours. Please let me know what you think of the situation. I am your representative on this situation, not the student senate. I will be asking for 1 a.m. weekend quiet hours to be reestablished.
I personally think they should put the hours back the way they were (1 AM on the weekends). The only thing they're doing (in my opinion) by moving the hours up is creating more noise violations, arrests, and evictions. My friends just got evicted this week due to an illegal action made by the CA, and a simple copy-and-paste police report that was clearly not about them. Absolute nonsense.
ReplyDeleteAs a result of the quiet hours, it is causing students to start earlier without having time to spread their night out, which can lead to binge drinking. This by itself will cause more noise then keeping the quiet hours till one.
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honesty, i think you should not bring up partying/drinking unless they bring it up. To me, it was able paying the extra money for more privacy of being in an apartment and not being in a residence hall
ReplyDeleteAs long as I can do it anonymously, i'll try and help your cause
ReplyDeleteI definitely think quiet hours should go back to 1am in the Gables. That's the appeal of the on-campus apartments, otherwise it's just like living in the dorms. As for quiet hours changing so students can study/sleep, no one studies from midnight til 1am on a friday or saturday night, and anyone who has lived in a dorm has learned to sleep with some background noise.
ReplyDeleteWe pay more money to live in a place where we are granted more privileges. Now we're paying the same amount of money for less privileges? Not okay. As a 22 year old senior gables resident who doesn't appreciate being treated like a child, especially when my roommates and I have never had any sort of violation, I am flat out offended at the change in quiet hours.
ReplyDeleteThe new quiet hours are really stupid. I seriously doubt that any students are actually worried about noise level, especially because the Gables' most marketable trait is its fun factor. I'm appalled at how often we get straight up lied to by staff members who don't want to admit the real reason they're messing with quiet hours is to minimize drinking and partying on campus. Whether or not I agree with the philosophy, at least then I could respect their honesty and conviction rather than their veiled attempt at passing the blame back on us...
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