WE NEED AIR CONDITIONING IN OUR DORMS!!!!!

As we started school two weeks ago, we were hit with a heat wave in Los Angeles. Many live on a single fan to keep us "cool" in our dorm rooms. Yet, it only seems to circulate the heat. Carondelet residents at Mount Saint Mary's University- Los Angeles are struggling to cope with the heat in our dorms. That is not the worst of it, though. We CAN NOT SLEEP. 

With air conditioning in our hallways, students are forced to leave their doors open just to get a breeze of cool air. We leave it open throughout the day, and throughout the night, yet, our rooms stay hot. Students have purchased extra fans, and it just does not help! MSMU-LA sent a Safety Email regarding the LA heat and how we can stay cool by drinking fluids and remaining indoors with cooler temperatures. Unfortunately, for the residents at Carondelet, we cannot stay in cooler temperatures with our dorm rooms being just as hot as outside.

Students are going home most of the weekend, some have gone home throughout the week, many of us wake up in the middle of the night just to shower with cold water and stay cool, a few students have slept on the FLOOR, and others wake up in the middle of the night out of DEHYDRATION. Health risks pose a threat to students with asthma and flare-ups, susceptibility to heat stroke, and heat exhaustion, students are getting muscle cramps, dizziness, nausea, and some wake up with chest pain due to breathlessness. 

How are we to study with this heat? How do we get ADEQUATE rest to attend our early morning classes? How does the Mount shout about a healthy lifestyle when the residents in their dorms are struggling with symptoms of unbearable heat? 

PLEASE sign this petition so we can raise awareness about the dire need for air conditioning in our dorm rooms! We will send this petition to MSMU Residents Life and the Dean of Students.