Joshua Gibbar
270-303-3546
Morgantown
Junior

It has come to my attention that Tom Riley’s solution for the AC problems in Grise Hall is to let mother nature do the work for you, temporary solution at best. If a 13.5% increase in expenditures has resulted in
a good part of the student population having to be miserable during class, tests, and studying, in a building where the temperatures meet or exceed 80 degrees; what do you think the 30-50% increase in heating expenses will do? Do you expect students to come to class and feel comfortable if the temperature inside is just as cold as it is outside? It’s not just grise hall either, many buildings on campus are like this such as Ivan Wilson center. Western has spent millions of
dollars to “pretty” up this campus over the past few years and heating/cooling has been a problem for much longer than the image of
the campus. I think that the more reasonable approach would be for WKU to start on the inside and provide a better learning condition for it students before attempting to raise its “curb appeal”. I along with many other students could get over the fact that we wouldn’t have constrution for a semester or two so this problem could be addressed.