Jacob Curtis - Oregon State University | Student Experience Center

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[zach4618]

@DangoDC Per term.

[zach4618]

@DangoDC Google inflation calculator. $9 in 1925 (im not sure exactly which year it was so I picked something in the middle) is equivalent to $112.12 today according to the bureau of labor statistics.

[DangoDC]

@zach4618 $9 dollars per term or per year? This would be 40-50 dollars per term so close to 120-150 dollars per student per year.

[zach4618]

@DangoDC In the 1920's students approved a $9 increase in their student fees to build the MU. Adjusting for inflation, that is the equivalent of us approving a $110 increase in our student fees. This will be an increase of less than half that.

[zach4618]

I am a member of Engineers Without Borders @ OSU. This building would be a dream come true for our group. We are in need of storage space and it is virtually impossible to find any on campus right now. We end up storing things in professors offices or at peoples houses. Please vote yes for this.

[zach4618]

@DangoDC The MU was designed for a student body of 4000. That does not mean it can hold 4000 students. What the video is saying is that our student body has quadrupled since the MU was built and therefore it is no longer capable of supporting all of our needs.

[kxiee]

@DangoDC the MU is ANYTHING but underused. The ballroom itself is booked out 2 years in advance. The MU also owns almost all of the cafes and restaurants you see around campus. Good, usable study space is a rarity on campus, and the MU cannot physically support people plugging their laptops in. Add that to a bunch of wi-fi dead spots, and that's probably why you only ever see 1,000 people in there at a time.

[ttfourme]

A. Sure they raised the money in different ways, but the similarity, in the poorly worded "history repeating" statement, is that the students are initiating this change.

B. The building was NOT meant to hold 4,000 people at one time, it was built to fulfill the needs of a student population that was much smaller then our 20,000+ now. If you really think the MU is being under used check out the events calender on the MU website.

[DangoDC]

A. How is this history repeating itself. The MU was fund-raised not taken from student fees. There was no student center then and now there is one we are abandoning for some waste of space.

B. Yes the MU may only accommodate 4,000 students but I can't remember a time when I saw more than 1,000 students in the MU. Why build a new meeting place if the one we have is not being used.