I’m sure this isn’t the first letter you have received in response to Chancellor Silber’s letter to The Daily Free Press on Monday. It probably isn’t even the 100th. However, it might be one of few letters from students who are not coming back to BU next semester.
After two years at Boston University, I’ve finally had enough. I am sick of its bureaucracy, its only concern being about money and its flagrant disregard for the student body. Chancellor Silber’s letter on Monday only made me feel more confident in my decision to leave the University. It not only showed he thinks of his students as inconsiderate sex fiends, but it brilliantly exemplified his attitude toward the student body. His solution to the Guest Policy problem: Instead of listening to what the student leaders have to say and considering a revision of a current policy that is so obviously causing a problem among the BU community, he chose to make fun of us and completely skirt the issue.
My reasons for leaving BU are obviously not because I disagree with the Guest Policy; they are many-fold, including issues with majors, faculty (or lack thereof) and my hatred for living in BU dormitories. But the thing that stands the clearest in my mind, the one thing I have not wavered on throughout my decision to leave BU, is that the heads of the University do not care about their students. What would Chancellor Silber say to the students who were not allowed to move into their dormitories on move-in weekend because someone in Student Accounting Services forgot to file a sheet of paper? To the students who came from California with all their belongings and were told, “Oops, sorry, you can’t move in; says here you owe us $10,000.” Sure, let me pull that out of my back pocket. In the meantime, what would you like me to do with my cart full of stuff? What would Chancellor Silber say to the students who have to pay $160 to be able to stay in Boston over Spring Break because they cannot afford to go home? Or to the students who were, pardon the expression, screwed out of housing last year because of the Student Village?
I could go on to talk about the construction of the Hotel Commonwealth or about the lack of English-speaking educators or about the condition of the buildings on campus. I could even comment on the exorbitant amount of money we all pay to go here when a lot of us aren’t satisfied with what we’ve paid for. But my arguments would be futile, as I know what Chancellor Silber’s response would be: If you don’t like it here so much, leave. Thanks for the advice, John, but I already plan to. And if you continue to have this attitude toward your students, I don’t think I’ll be the last one.
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