Murray Building Closure

Not sure how to flair this, but this is a call to action especially for all Art Department students.

As we know, the Murray building closure was originally scheduled earlier this October. Our courses were scheduled around it, our assignments were scheduled around it. This is an unfair and highly disruptive change to a singular department that could have had much better coordination and communication to cause less problems (such as pushing the maintenance to December—***as there are no final exams for most Art department courses.***) They made the original schedule; if they couldn’t meet their deadlines, then it is up to them to find the least disruptive time period to do so, and to give proper notice for any disruption to students.

We do not have access to the specialized resources of the building in other areas of campus. The 184 computer lab, photography darkroom and studio, printmaking studio, painting studio, drawing room—all of these areas provide specialized resources that we need for our coursework.

Please, ***please*** take the time to send an email to Andrew Denton, and express your frustration about the sudden change to the building closure. Express how our semester was structured in good faith with the original timeline, and please stress how this change affects your ability to complete your coursework and how the sudden change fails to showcase the university’s commitment to academic success of its students.

Don’t let maintenance push us around like this. Barely a week’s notice on the schedule change is unacceptable. Can’t say it’ll change anything, but we deserve to make a little noise given the cost to attend university and the fact that access to these resources is part of our tuition fees.

If you’re not sure how to word your email, send me a DM and I’ll meet up with you sometime this week and help you draft it. ***Speak up.*** It’s not just students affected by this and frustrated by it. I can only speak for my own instructors, but they too are frustrated by the sudden change.

And if anyone who isn’t affected by the building closure wishes to send an email, please do so as well!