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Some people have been asking since everything started with the whole Barat closing thing what my feelings are. And I'm attempting to explain that here and now, but I'll put it behind a cut so that those of you who do not care can pass over.
Alright, let me just state that I am, in fact, a DePaul student. I am enrolled and attend this university of my own free will. However, I am still a DePaul student more than anything else simply because if I were to transfer out, I will have to spend more money and more time towards achieving my degree, a sacrifice I am not willing to make. Now, that being said, I think just about everyone who knows me is familiar with my feelings and attitude towards this university. I hold strong feelings of contempt, anger, suspicion, paranoia and disrespect for the university, and those who run it. More than anything else, I see DePaul University as a conglamerate corporation, not unparalleled with the likes of Enron. I believe their corporate practices to be underhanded, immoral, utterly without humanity, and I believe that not all, though many, of their executive members are more touched with the notion of money than not the students whom should be their soul responsibility and their most valuable intrest. I have been told that by closing Barat, the money saved could be spent in other places for student-needs. I cannot believe this.
My upset feelings come not from the actual closing of Barat College, but what this closure represents. The fact that a University such as ours is ranked the happiest in the nation is contradictory to the feelings of the many students, who were, conveniently, left out of this survey. DePaul has a code of ethics, called they Vincentian tradtions. They cling to these traditions as a drowning victim would to a life preserver. However, these traditions are falsified by the acts of the university on this campus. One of the core values of this code is humanity and compassion, neither of which have been applied to Barat. DePaul has, in essance, turned their backs on nearly a thousand students. They have eliminated six degrees would very well could have led to successful carreers for a great many of us. They are closing a century of traditions, morals, ethics and society, the likes of which is found few other places in the world.
That DePaul would cast out members of its own society is what truly angers me. Rather than hear our voices, they closed the doors to our entry of their final decision vote. Rather than see our faces, they chose to ignore us. Rather than act humanely, that have gone the route of many corporations before them. They have chosen to cut ties with not only this campus, but with the thoughts, ideas, and voices of hundreds of students, faculty, and staff whose very life revolves around Barat College. This is what truly saddens and angers me. Are we not the same students who are attending such a "wonderful university"? Are we not people who deserve to give our thoughts and concerns? Do we not deserve such things? Through the recent course of actions, the implications seem to be NO. Why then do we continue to be loyal to a university that has chosen to be disloyal to us? I am still a DePaul student, yet with so many objections to my state of being, I wonder how many officials of the universty feel that I am.
These are the reasons that I am upset. It is true that I am sad to see Barat close. There is so much history here; it was a major factor in my decision to attend this school. It will be sad to see Barat go down the way it has. However, I am more upset over the actions of DePaul toward the students than to these buildings.
Alright, let me just state that I am, in fact, a DePaul student. I am enrolled and attend this university of my own free will. However, I am still a DePaul student more than anything else simply because if I were to transfer out, I will have to spend more money and more time towards achieving my degree, a sacrifice I am not willing to make. Now, that being said, I think just about everyone who knows me is familiar with my feelings and attitude towards this university. I hold strong feelings of contempt, anger, suspicion, paranoia and disrespect for the university, and those who run it. More than anything else, I see DePaul University as a conglamerate corporation, not unparalleled with the likes of Enron. I believe their corporate practices to be underhanded, immoral, utterly without humanity, and I believe that not all, though many, of their executive members are more touched with the notion of money than not the students whom should be their soul responsibility and their most valuable intrest. I have been told that by closing Barat, the money saved could be spent in other places for student-needs. I cannot believe this.
My upset feelings come not from the actual closing of Barat College, but what this closure represents. The fact that a University such as ours is ranked the happiest in the nation is contradictory to the feelings of the many students, who were, conveniently, left out of this survey. DePaul has a code of ethics, called they Vincentian tradtions. They cling to these traditions as a drowning victim would to a life preserver. However, these traditions are falsified by the acts of the university on this campus. One of the core values of this code is humanity and compassion, neither of which have been applied to Barat. DePaul has, in essance, turned their backs on nearly a thousand students. They have eliminated six degrees would very well could have led to successful carreers for a great many of us. They are closing a century of traditions, morals, ethics and society, the likes of which is found few other places in the world.
That DePaul would cast out members of its own society is what truly angers me. Rather than hear our voices, they closed the doors to our entry of their final decision vote. Rather than see our faces, they chose to ignore us. Rather than act humanely, that have gone the route of many corporations before them. They have chosen to cut ties with not only this campus, but with the thoughts, ideas, and voices of hundreds of students, faculty, and staff whose very life revolves around Barat College. This is what truly saddens and angers me. Are we not the same students who are attending such a "wonderful university"? Are we not people who deserve to give our thoughts and concerns? Do we not deserve such things? Through the recent course of actions, the implications seem to be NO. Why then do we continue to be loyal to a university that has chosen to be disloyal to us? I am still a DePaul student, yet with so many objections to my state of being, I wonder how many officials of the universty feel that I am.
These are the reasons that I am upset. It is true that I am sad to see Barat close. There is so much history here; it was a major factor in my decision to attend this school. It will be sad to see Barat go down the way it has. However, I am more upset over the actions of DePaul toward the students than to these buildings.