2008 Woodie Awards
New students get an unexpected welcome
Patrice Bendig, Features Editor
Issue date: 4/16/08Section: Editorials and Opinion
The St. John's Web site displays pictures of green sprawling lawns, majestic academic buildings, and smiling students as they leisurely walk to class.
This gives a false impression of the Queens campus these days, and when prospective students come to visit, they are surprised-in an unpleasant way. What they see pales in comparison to the Web site; construction equipment, swarms of hard hat workers, disgruntled students trying to find alternative routes, and dust particles blowing in the wind. Welcome to St. John's University 2008.
Construction crews have overtaken our hundred acres of campus, making it an obstacle course for students. Barriers have been raised, blocking off main entrances to Carnesecca, Taffner Field House and the Little Theatre.
The only way to get into these places, which are vital parts of the school, is through the loading docks of Carnesecca, which is time consuming and is impossible to find unless someone explains the way.
This is the only way to gain access to these places for the next five weeks. This is not only inconvenient, but one cannot help but gain an instant headache after passing by the construction zone from all of the machines and workers.
Not only is the back of campus ripped to shreds, but the front of the campus, which is the pinnacle of our campus, has had construction crews on it for most of the year, for the completion of the new townhouses.
Although this is needed to increase residential housing, it is still an eyesore to the picturesque great lawn landscape. This is a crucial part of campus, since it is the first thing most people see when they enter the Queens campus.
This is a nuisance for current students, but the bigger impact is on prospective students of the University. Since there was a surge of applicants to the University this year, even more high school seniors came to campus to survey it.
A huge turnout occurred for Accepted Students Day, while the back of campus resembled a war zone, full of orange barriers, debris and dirt flying everywhere. The touring students did not expect to see this, because it did not resemble the graphics on the Web site.
This gives a false impression of the Queens campus these days, and when prospective students come to visit, they are surprised-in an unpleasant way. What they see pales in comparison to the Web site; construction equipment, swarms of hard hat workers, disgruntled students trying to find alternative routes, and dust particles blowing in the wind. Welcome to St. John's University 2008.
Construction crews have overtaken our hundred acres of campus, making it an obstacle course for students. Barriers have been raised, blocking off main entrances to Carnesecca, Taffner Field House and the Little Theatre.
The only way to get into these places, which are vital parts of the school, is through the loading docks of Carnesecca, which is time consuming and is impossible to find unless someone explains the way.
This is the only way to gain access to these places for the next five weeks. This is not only inconvenient, but one cannot help but gain an instant headache after passing by the construction zone from all of the machines and workers.
Not only is the back of campus ripped to shreds, but the front of the campus, which is the pinnacle of our campus, has had construction crews on it for most of the year, for the completion of the new townhouses.
Although this is needed to increase residential housing, it is still an eyesore to the picturesque great lawn landscape. This is a crucial part of campus, since it is the first thing most people see when they enter the Queens campus.
This is a nuisance for current students, but the bigger impact is on prospective students of the University. Since there was a surge of applicants to the University this year, even more high school seniors came to campus to survey it.
A huge turnout occurred for Accepted Students Day, while the back of campus resembled a war zone, full of orange barriers, debris and dirt flying everywhere. The touring students did not expect to see this, because it did not resemble the graphics on the Web site.
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