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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 23, 2024 18:33:47 GMT -5
Equipment will break. Unfortunately it happened during a cold spell. Those students from other inferior schools have way more problems than a busted boiler that was corrected asap.
Some guys on this subject sound like the biased television stations and news papers that has covered this mishap too long.
Damn it happened, let it go. It ain't killed no one. These students that have experienced this unfortunate situation will be laughing about this 20 years from now and telling their grandchildren about it.
Let it go!!
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Post by DOOMS on Jan 23, 2024 20:34:20 GMT -5
I'm looking at it from a) my own opinion as a 51 year old who graduated a long time ago and lived in much worse conditions and b) trying to see it from the viewpoint of a 19 year old whose parents paid 30 grand or more to go to the school and was raised on twitter and instagram. So I can see both sides.
The fact that you're online posting about it asking folks to let it go on a message board shows the power of the internet and the information age. There's irony in that.
Ayantee could use a skilled fixer.
When I was a freshman we deemed our dorms so bad we staged a sit-in at Dowdy. The administration sent someone over to listen to our concerns and bought us pizza. I don't think they actually ACTED on any of our complaints lol. But we felt heard and they humored us. Sometimes that's all it takes. And I'm not entirely sure we don't already do that sort of thing, but we need someone who is savvy with the information age that can take control of the narrative before all these twitter fingers can get to typing too fast.
Belittling other schools who laugh at our misfortune and belittling the opinions of the students who are complaining does what exactly? Nothing positive is going to come out of it. The school is understaffed in any number of key areas and when that's the case, this sort of thing is more likely to happen.
As I type this diatribe from my warm a$$ home, I wonder how I would feel if one of my kids was in that situation. Would I be as forgiving? Better yet, if my kid was in that situation at a school I didn't necessarily want them to go to in the first place. A lot of variables are being left out just to call the students whose money keeps the school open afloat "spoiled."
Just my opinion.
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 23, 2024 21:03:50 GMT -5
No one died, no one was hurt. I remember my 4 plus years way back in the 60's. We had more serious stuff happening than a busted boiler. I remember 3 serious riots where a student was killed and numerous students were shot or injured.
Students survived those riots, clanging heated pipes in Scott Hall that kept a student woke all night, bag meals on Sundays consisting of a apple 🍎, hard a$$ sandwich a nab and cookie.
It don't matter if the tuition is $30,00, $40,000 or $400 a semester back in the day. In each era that money is. was hard to come up with.
Too much is being made of this unfortunate situation. Why keep talking about it like the white folks want.
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Post by jbrob on Jan 23, 2024 21:17:03 GMT -5
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When you live in Pittsburgh, you expect to have to bundle up during the winter months. But you'd never think you'd have to wear that same winter attire when you go to bed. Sleeping in earmuffs has become the norm for some students inside a dorm at the University of Pittsburgh. No heat is just the latest problem students in about half of Bouquet Gardens Building J have had to endure. Last semester, the hot water was sporadic at best and was just permanently fixed earlier this month. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/university-of-pittsburgh-bouquet-gardens-dorms-no-heat/ |
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 23, 2024 21:18:02 GMT -5
Does anybody know what actually caused the heat to fail? And more importantly, has there been a process put in place to prevent something like this from happening again?
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Post by jbrob on Jan 23, 2024 21:37:15 GMT -5
Does anybody know what actually caused the heat to fail? And more importantly, has there been a process put in place to prevent something like this from happening again? I think parts on the temporary boiler froze. I think it's similar to what happened in Texas when the power grid failed. I'm not sure when we get permanent repairs or a new system. |
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 23, 2024 22:59:56 GMT -5
T got it under control. We got too many positives going on to keep hammering on something that could happen here or anywhere else.
Some folks are the worse enemy for this university by bad mouthing something of this nature and keeping it alive.
This story should have been closed "yesterday ". Talk about some positive stuff going on at T.
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Post by oldschool on Jan 24, 2024 0:36:23 GMT -5
It doesn't matter if you are paying $100k a year, equipment will break. The response is what matters. Amen! In life, sh*t happens! Hell, several years ago a cold front knocked out the electrical grid in Texas. They damn sure have the resources for that not to happen but... sh*t happens. The heat at A&T didn't fail because our maintenance department is understaffed, or the Administration was cutting corners to save money, or The University's Housing Department was incompetent. The heat failed because of an unusually cold front that knocked other heating systems. It was a legitimate problem but did going on social media and whinnying get it fixed sooner. Nope! Exactly if A&T was negligent in any form or fashion I could understand some of the complaints ,but that was not the case .My only legitimate concern is maybe they didn't communicate as well as they could have ,but to be honest ,anytime you do anything for the first time ,there will be mistakes made .And to this argument that "I'm paying $30,000 plus ",therefore this should have never happened is ludicrous. The dollar amount is irrelevant , sh*t happens no matter what .All of the car makers ,Cadillac, Mercedes,Porsche ,Ferrari ,Lamborghini,etc ,have repair shops ,because sh*t happens .So it's not so much about what happened ,it's all about the response . |
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Post by oldschool on Jan 24, 2024 0:40:10 GMT -5
Does anybody know what actually caused the heat to fail? And more importantly, has there been a process put in place to prevent something like this from happening again? Anything that is man made ,can and will fail at some point in time ,there is no such thing as "preventing something like this from happening again". Especially when you're dealing with temperature extremes like we had this past week . |
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 24, 2024 23:04:04 GMT -5
Was there anything the other 5 colleges in the city of Greensboro did that week that allowed them to prevent something like this from happening to them?
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 25, 2024 19:39:10 GMT -5
Case closed.
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Post by The Professor on Jan 26, 2024 9:37:51 GMT -5
Was there anything the other 5 colleges in the city of Greensboro did that week that allowed them to prevent something like this from happening to them? Lol the boiler went out. Actually the boiler blew this summer and what failed was the backup solution. Hence no heat on campus. I don't think it's anything you can go unless you replace the system with a brand new system. It's just like your furnace or AC unit. It goes out at some point, this was just bad timing |
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 26, 2024 9:56:49 GMT -5
Mann call in Perry Mason, Dick Tracy, Shaft and Sherlock Holmes to investigate this situation. Some people ain't gone let it go just for the hell of it.
The damn problem was identified on our campus and I don't give a damn about the other college campuses.
Let it go. Why keep it going to make us look bad. sheeet happens.
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Post by DOOMS on Jan 26, 2024 10:18:11 GMT -5
Was there anything the other 5 colleges in the city of Greensboro did that week that allowed them to prevent something like this from happening to them? Lol the boiler went out. Actually the boiler blew this summer and what failed was the backup solution. Hence no heat on campus. I don't think it's anything you can go unless you replace the system with a brand new system. It's just like your furnace or AC unit. It goes out at some point, this was just bad timing Dang, is that something we could've/should've gotten emergency funding from the state to cover? I imagine if the boiler went out at some other state institutions (you're welcome to guess which ones I'm thinking about) then there would be a priority placed on adequate replacement. Honestly, if played correctly any news report about the event would start out with “a prominent state school that is owed BILLIONS of dollars by the state lost heat during a cold wave…”. Then when you interview complaining students ask them if they were aware of the money the state owes us and that the school cannot sue for the money on its own behalf. Heat be back on in 17 minutes 😂 |
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 26, 2024 20:33:38 GMT -5
Mann call in Perry Mason, Dick Tracy, Shaft and Sherlock Holmes to investigate this situation. Some people ain't gone let it go just for the hell of it. The damn problem was identified on our campus and I don't give a damn about the other college campuses. Let it go. Why keep it going to make us look bad. sheeet happens. It's amazing that you keep complaining about people posting on this thread ... and yet you continue to keep the thread alive by posting on this thread. You dont see the irony in that? |
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