<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4bvSnc_1GvEi8b000" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4bvSnc_1GvEi8b000" width="2001" height="1334" >Members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at Oregon State University met at the Kelley Engineering Center to discuss campus housing conditions and strategies for future changes on Oct. 18. Both facilitators of the town hall noted that specific residence halls, such as McNary and Poling, need special attention because of how old the buildings are.During the town hall, third-year YDSA town hall facilitator and chemical engineering student Jay Andrews said that YDSA hosted the town hall because “we want to know what we’re doing so that when we go and ask these things of the university, it’s what the students want.” While students are looking to influence the university’s priorities, Housing &amp; Dining Services says its existing planning project already includes student feedback. “We have a multi-year capital plan that informs which buildings need investment and we prioritize that list based on student input/feedback and building needs that improve safety, security and livability,” Brian Stroup, director of operations and facilities at University Housing &amp; Dining Services, said in an email. “For me, it’s always been about the community, first and foremost, rather than the living conditions,” said Sam Tehrani, first-year digital communications arts major and McNary Hall resident. “But I’m not going to sit up here and lie and act like the bathrooms here aren’t disgusting.”First-year biohealth sciences student and McNary Hall resident Aliyah Doyle Guerrero shared concerns regarding the showers. “There’s a specific one that I use all the time because I feel comfortable in it, but it has mold on the top of the shower,” Doyle Guerrero said. “It really smells bad in there.”Ahlias O’Neil, a first-year mechanical engineering student and McNary Hall resident, noted numerous incidents with pests.“I’ve found three bugs so far. One initially when I moved in, one in the shower, and then one in the lounge area,” said O’Neil.Jayden Thompson, a first-year biochemistry and molecular biology major and a Poling Hall resident, shared a different point of view.“For the prices, (the dorms) do offer what it says they do. And you get used to it after a while,” Thompson said. Since the beginning of the school year, some residents from McNary and Poling said they had overall maintenance issues in the buildings.“The biggest issue is the elevator sometimes goes out of order, and I live on the 6th floor,” said Nghi Luu, a first-year chemistry major and McNary Hall resident.First-year public health student and Poling Hall resident Preston Acosta said, “Maintenance-wise, for example, our fridge has a water filter. The resident assistant did put a request to fix that … around the first week of school, and it’s week 3.”Andrews, the YDSA member, explained the first steps that they said can be taken to improve the conditions.“The priority should go towards actually maintaining (changes) once we can get through. So there are a lot of these things where we are fighting simply for them to exist first and then maintenance to happen,” Andrews said. “You can’t maintain something that doesn’t exist.”Stroup noted that even with new hall construction, the conditions of the older buildings have not gone unnoticed by UHDS.“In addition to building new spaces, there are plans to more aggressively renovate some of our existing halls like McNary and Poling,” Stroup.</div></body>

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Members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at Oregon State University met at the Kelley Engineering Center to discuss campus housing conditions and strategies for future changes on Oct. 18. Both facilitators of the town hall noted that specific residence halls, such as McNary and Poling, need special...

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