On October 8, students living in the River Terrace Suites received an email from Residential and Dining Services stating that, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 19, there will be a power outage in their buildings in order to provide “temporary electrical service for the Student Housing/University Center project.” About six hours later, those same residents received an email from Facilities and Campus Operations stating that, “These buildings will need to be vacated during the power outage,” confusing several students as it directly contradicted the previous email from Residential and Dining Services that stated, “There is no need for you to vacate.”
A reminder email was sent out by Residential and Dining Services on October 16 and included some suggestions for places to go while vacating the building, including “Go home,” among other suggestions such as Pierce Dining Hall, the library, Mindfulness Meditation with the Hoboken Historical Museum, and volunteering at the Hoboken Homeless Shelter. Eden Luvishis, a freshman resident of River Terrace, stated that she was “disheartened reading this, since it is obviously impossible for me to go home,” since Luvishis is from California. “I was upset that the university makes the assumption that most people here can go home, especially when they are trying to attract more diverse students.”
The latest correspondence from Residential and Dining Services states that they “encourage all students to vacate the building,” but students can remain in their rooms, and someone will be posted in the building to “perform Fire Watch for the duration of the outage.”
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