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Impossible Change

Wake up and smell the roses kiddies, the Guest Policy is never changing. I don’t care how many angry letters you write, no matter how many students you get to sign a petition, no matter how many pages are added to the Union’s proposal, the Guest Policy will never change. A snowball stands a better chance in hell than this proposal does. Call me a pessimist, but I prefer to be called a realist.

Look BU, you want to know why it won’t change? Money. Plain and simple. BU has no monetary incentive to alter its Guest Policy. Better students are applying each year, and more students are applying each year. They have a plethora of students willing to fill the dorms for the relatively low cost of living in urban Boston. This policy won’t change until something like this year happens over an extended period of time. This year, 200 fewer students enrolled than expected. If 200 less than this year enroll, and then another 200 and so on, soon BU will send a survey out to those who didn’t enroll. If they find out that just 50 percent of those students didn’t come because of the Guest Policy, then maybe, and I mean MAYBE, they might THINK of changing it. The only other way is if every student moves off campus after their freshman year. The revenue loss by 10,000 students moving off campus would be tremendous and would flare the tension the city has for universities allowing their students to take up affordable housing. If the city steps in, there might be something done to alter the Policy. But Silber knows you aren’t moving off campus. Not because it’s cheaper, because Lord knows four people in Allston is cheaper than a Warren Towers double, but because of the proximity and convenience. Honestly, do you think as sophomore, you would want to have to take the T every morning to get to class and have to come back and cook yourself meals, or would you rather wake up, roll out of bed, take a ten minute walk from South or Shelton, or even 20 from West, and come back to a cafeteria where food is already made for you? My money’s on option two, and so is Silber’s. But hey, maybe I am a cynic. Maybe BU won’t act like a cold-hearted business and more like a caring university. Yep, they might. When pigs fly.

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