No Recreation Center! Not Now! Not Ever!

NO RECREATION CENTER! NO NEW FEES!
NOT NOW! NOT EVER!

Associated Students, Inc. (ASI), a student governing body, developed a plan for a new Recreation and Wellness Center, a building housing a pool, exercise equipment, basketball courts, lockers and more. ASI, with the support of the Student Center Governing Board (SCGB), decided take the proposed Rec. Center on as a joint project and send the Rec. Center to an official vote where every student could decide. The student body was supposed to vote in late April whether the Rec. Center will be built but the election was postponed and will not take place.

The whole process has happened incredibly quickly through the pressure of administration. A “private consulting firm” Brailsford & Dunlavey (the architects of the center) conducted a biased survey that made it appear as if students were overwhelmingly in favor of the center. They were paid—with our student money—$300,000 before any of the decisions about the center were put to the democratic process or conducted in a transparent manner.

If approved, this Rec. Center, will literally force students to front the bill for a project we will never see as students on this campus (expected opening—2014???). This will further the gentrification of campus, displace the local community and underprivileged students, and cater to the needs of students seeking a “destination school” rather than fulfilling the needs of the diverse working-class students that make our school vibrant and socially conscious. Education not Institutionalized Recreation! No new fees, not now, not ever!

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