Provide Adequate Living Spaces for Students at NSU in CLC/FFV


Provide Adequate Living Spaces for Students at NSU in CLC/FFV
The Issue
In the short time that student have lived on campus during the 2021-2022 academic year, the students at Nova Southeastern University who live within the CLC/FFV Community, consisting of the Founders, Farquhar, Vettel, and Cultural Living Center Residence Halls, have been faced with a series of problems and inadequate spaces within our buildings. Since the beginning of the semester, August 23rd, the air conditioning has broken on three seperate occasions, causing students within these spaces to deal with the heat of South Florida with no way to control the climate in their rooms. Students have reported their rooms reaching temperatures greater than 80° F throughout the night during these times where there is no AC, and the humidity in each room has surpassed over 80%. This environment creates hazards, like extremely slippery halls from condensation and a breeding ground for mold to begin to form on the walls and in the vents throughout the communities. In addition, between nearly 50 residents within each building of FFV, the residents must share just three washers and dryers, averaging about one washer and one dryer per 15 people. These washers and dryers consistently breakdown and leave the residents forced to wear dirty and unhygenic clothes repeatedly. Further, the CLC/FFV community has been defined as at high-risk for flooding during incliment weather, with many rooms having already experienced flooding this semester. Beyond these issues, the students face pest problems like roaches, palmetto bugs, spiders, lizards, stray cats, and racoons both in the surrounding areas and within the residence halls themselves. We call on the administration of Nova Southeastern University to provide better and adequate living conditions for their students and for the Broward County Department of Health to conduct thorough inspections of the residence halls at Nova Southeastern University to insure that students are in healthy living conditions. As students, we pay thousands upon thousands of dollars each year to live on campus to be welcomed with a series of issues we were not anticipating during our housing selection. Do better, care for your students NSU.
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The Issue
In the short time that student have lived on campus during the 2021-2022 academic year, the students at Nova Southeastern University who live within the CLC/FFV Community, consisting of the Founders, Farquhar, Vettel, and Cultural Living Center Residence Halls, have been faced with a series of problems and inadequate spaces within our buildings. Since the beginning of the semester, August 23rd, the air conditioning has broken on three seperate occasions, causing students within these spaces to deal with the heat of South Florida with no way to control the climate in their rooms. Students have reported their rooms reaching temperatures greater than 80° F throughout the night during these times where there is no AC, and the humidity in each room has surpassed over 80%. This environment creates hazards, like extremely slippery halls from condensation and a breeding ground for mold to begin to form on the walls and in the vents throughout the communities. In addition, between nearly 50 residents within each building of FFV, the residents must share just three washers and dryers, averaging about one washer and one dryer per 15 people. These washers and dryers consistently breakdown and leave the residents forced to wear dirty and unhygenic clothes repeatedly. Further, the CLC/FFV community has been defined as at high-risk for flooding during incliment weather, with many rooms having already experienced flooding this semester. Beyond these issues, the students face pest problems like roaches, palmetto bugs, spiders, lizards, stray cats, and racoons both in the surrounding areas and within the residence halls themselves. We call on the administration of Nova Southeastern University to provide better and adequate living conditions for their students and for the Broward County Department of Health to conduct thorough inspections of the residence halls at Nova Southeastern University to insure that students are in healthy living conditions. As students, we pay thousands upon thousands of dollars each year to live on campus to be welcomed with a series of issues we were not anticipating during our housing selection. Do better, care for your students NSU.
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The Decision Makers
Petition created on September 20, 2021