Hunter College Is Falling Down

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  1. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member

    In early March, it looked as if the main campus of Hunter College, the so-called crown jewel of CUNY, was overrun by rats. State Assemblyman Zohran K. Mamdani tweeted that a student told him no one was allowed to eat below the sixth floor in one building because the infestation was so bad. But Jen Gaboury, a gender studies professor at the school, says this isn’t true: There’s actually a full-on mouse infestation, she says, and rodent species don’t like to share the same space. The campus, which dominates the corner of 68th and Lexington, has so many mice that Gaboury flips over her keyboard every morning to let the droppings fall out, and students watch the rodents running around while class is in session. The ubiquity of mice is almost the least of the issues plaguing a school that is in an astonishing state of disrepair.

    Hunter College Is Falling Down (curbed.com)
     
    Tireman 44444, Apr 1, 2022
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  2. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    Given today's date I assumed this was an April Fool's joke (especially with the mouse vs rat comment) but the article was published a few days ago.
     
    Dustin, Apr 1, 2022
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  3. Futuredegree

    Futuredegree Well-Known Member

    It is a real problem
     
    Futuredegree, Apr 1, 2022
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  4. Rachel83az

    Rachel83az Well-Known Member

    That's... not safe.
     
    Rachel83az, Apr 2, 2022
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  5. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I have quite an extensive history with Hunter College which includes me having been on campus 100+ times over the years despite never having been an enrolled student nor employee. I can tell you two things that will sound absolutely tragic when juxtaposed.

    First, the rodent problem has been rampant for decades now. I've been on campus when the health department had to shut down entire wings of the school due to, what the signs posted up referred to as, "excessive vermin population". Which, naturally, made me wonder if there was some magic number of acceptable levels of vermin that weren't considered "excessive"... :emoji_neutral_face:

    Secondly, the burritos served by the cafeteria are just plain awesome.

    Yeah...

    Anyway, I'm surprised to hear that Hunter College is so highly regarded. It's overcrowded, poorly organized, inconsistently climate controlled and the elevators and escalators frequently break down. Most of the professors I met there cared more about their students agreeing with their politics than whether or not they actually learned anything or produced quality work.

    If anyone here has ever wondered why I, despite being at least slightly left of center, have come down so hard over the years on the "woke" identity politics and social Marxism of the left, it's because I was bombarded with it 10 years earlier than most people were in the form of the extremist idiologues at Hunter College. I was already overstuffed with it before it was even on the average person's radar.

    All that said, I still always enjoyed going there. I don't know why, really. Maybe I have a thing for unbridled chaos. I definitely enjoyed the fruit stand out front and the mile or so walk to and from grand central station to get there. Much nicer than taking the subway when the weather was nice.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Apr 2, 2022
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  6. Rachel83az

    Rachel83az Well-Known Member

    Mouse-meat burritos?
     
    Rachel83az, Apr 2, 2022
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  7. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

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    Maniac Craniac, Apr 2, 2022
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  8. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    All restaurants are Taco Bell.
     
    SteveFoerster, Apr 2, 2022
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  9. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    I had similar experiences in 'nice' restaurants in Harvard Square. Gentrification was pushing out of the neighborhood the interesting little-guy shopkeepers, while notably failing to push out these little-guys.

    In the halls at Harvard Science Center we'd also see mice or rats we whimsically figured liberated themselves from a lab.
     
    Jonathan Whatley, Apr 2, 2022
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  10. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    And downtown, I see ratty-looking people I whimsically figured liberated themselves from a job..
     
    Johann, Apr 3, 2022
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