FIX Baruch

Our building’s escalators, despite years of false promises, have not moved one inch since many of us first stepped foot in this college. And our elevators, on the rare occasion they do work, make the 6 train look positively roomy.

As business students, we are not allowed to double major, unlike our neighbors at NYU. As club leaders, we are frustrated by the virtual impossibility of booking the room we need for the date we need. As patrons of the gym, we are fed up with the endless waits for broken lockers so we can exercise on rusty equipment.

Our tuition and fees are climbing towards the stratosphere with every passing semester, and we have nothing more to show for it except a larger burden of student loan debt. Classes are more and more packed, with students sitting on staircases instead of desks. Textbooks cost more than their weight in gold.

And our Undergraduate Student Government has largely failed our student body. We hear promises, but don’t see results.

Club budgets are allocated by favor, not merit. In a year of all-around belt-tightening, a certain well-connected few saw increases, while everyone else pinched pennies. These trying economic times seem to have not affected USG, as we have seen them take our money and spend it lavishly on themselves and their friends. Just recently, USG earmarked $20,000 to buy themselves new furniture.

This is a Baruch problem. This is why we are running for the Undergraduate Student Government. Because today, every dime is important. Because while the club room is important, so is the class room, and the exercise room, and the lunch room. It’s high time for something to actually get done.

This is a Baruch problem. We need a Baruch solution. It’s time to Fix Baruch.

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