Andrews University Michigan has neglected its dorms. Burman Hall the last dorms that was built was built in 1981.
Andrews has 3 dorms Lamson for the women and Meier Hall for the men and Burman. Lamson was built in the 40 almost 70 years ago and Meier hall was built around 1964 almost 40 years ago. The university enrollment hasn't gone anywhere.in other words it hovers around 3000 students.
Complaints.
1) Meier hall is outdated and needs to be torn down and replaced.
2) Meier hall needs an elevator and better security but it is an x shaped 8 pointed disaster which was designed in the 60s and like sendmail is impossible to make secure.
3) Meier hall is not secure and anyone can enter it even non students and stealing happened as well.
4) Burman Hall was built for the Graduate students and placed 150 feet away from Meier. It's almost like the University put it as far away as they could from Meier and then neglected the undergraduate dorm which hasn't changed in 50 years.
5) The university was unprofessional and unhelpful and not supportive. They don't spend any money on the dorms and then the University involuntarily assigned a room mate twice or prosecute students. They only provide 4 to 10 parking spots in the back of Burman Hall. The University uses the police to prosecute the students and the Berrien Springs Police harass the Andrews male students and are also unprofessional. It almost like the University has given the male students a bad reputation with the police.
5a) You get what you pay for. Good dorms really build up university enrollment. If you have a good dorm what does a bad dorm do? A bad dorm such as Meier and Burman lowers student standards and decreases enrollment. Andrews Enrollment has gone nowhere the past 30 years.
6) The head dean of the dorms was totally incompetent and didn't really support the students by attempting to improve the dorms or ask for additional funding to make the dorms more accessible or friendly or even promote rebuilding Meier Hall. The head dean made a group of students stop playing a card game because the poker cards were considered demonic or something.
6a) One of the RAs cussed one of the students out which illustrates that the University is unprofessional with managing the Mens dorms.
6b) The womens dorm was a lot more professionally designed and run. The University was able to attract a Miss America contestant. The male recruitment is somewhat lacking since the University doesn't have a national sports program and spends nothing on the mens dorms which were already outdated 20 years ago.
7) The University miniscule tiny dorm rooms in Burman or chicken cages. They are about 15 by 15 feet and if you share a room mate it is terrible.
8) They also force students to move out of Meier and walk 150 feet away during the summer down three flights of steps and cart all of there belongings to the other dorm. This is so that Meier can be used as a conference center.
The University used a 10 million dollar donation to fund a stable for the cows in the University farm.instead of improving the University 40 year old mens dorms they "gave the money to the cows." The cows were more important than the mens dorms.
Other universities are improving the security of their dorm by adding keyless locks and improving the rooms and electrical wiring and the university did nothing to improve the dorms even though they charge 15000 per year.
This is a snippet from cnn.com.
Http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/11/28/dorm. Overload. Ap/index.html
"Andrew Matthews, of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International, said many dorms were built in the 1950s and 1960s and don't have the electrical capacity for power-dependent students."
Ohio state spent 200 million to renovate their dorms and Andrews has no priority in renovating Meier Hall or Burman.
Http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/05/05/on_campus. ART_ART_05-05-08_B1_7QA44R6.html? Sid=101
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