By: Peter Olesen Lund

Peter Olesen Lund
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:01 +0000

NO! The University planning and announcement for this expansion and 'temporary relocation' of Graduate and Graduate Family Housing' is wrong and is contrary to 'transparent conversations' held with us, Graduate Students and Graduate Family Housing residents during 2017. The University SHOULD complete their moral obligation - complete the replacement Graduate Housing Community WITH EXPANSION and transfer the current residents BEFORE further athletic development. Anything less is mockery and contrary of the '2017 listening and conversation process' that the University hosted in 2017. Profound breech of trust between the University and Graduate and Graduate Family Housing residents IS the reality of this current plan. Hooray for the University and athletics to HELL with the Graduate and Graduate Family Housing - majority being International Graduate Student Families, vulnerable and easy to malign. Here in this announcement IS the reality I had sensed was present and in the room with us during the "2017 Good Faith Listening Sessions" that I and many other Graduate students and Buckeye Village residents had attended. The University points to the 2017 community listening sessions as they run roughshod over a unique, vulnerable and needed community of Buckeyes. Whatever is built well after the current community of structures, Buckeye Village, are erased, if ever, the University replacement community will be a shell and shadow, smoke and mirror, of the present Buckeye Village. This announcement is Buckeye Betrayal, an in your face absence of Buckeye Pride.