DIATRIBE TO UTAS
About how impossible it is to get a locker in Arts and everything that is wrong with UTAS:
Nola of Arts Student Central has instructed me to go to Social Sciences Administration on Level 5 Social Sciences and ask "Are there any lockers available in this building?".
Campus Services has instructed me to get a New User Form for the Online Works Request system signed by my Head of School. (I don't know who that is). Then submit it to Campus Services for consideration. (before I can even make the actual work request).
Nola insists the lockers are being used because they have padlocks on them, so she is certainly not going to assist me to have the lockers opened. How do I deal with that kind of logic? I don't know.
Basically I don't know what will happen when I go to Social Sciences Administration on Level 5 Social Sciences. But if past experience is anything to go by, I will not get reasonable answers.
I am rarely on campus. I have mental illness. The stress of getting half a dozen conflicting answers, being palmed off, doubted, or just ignored: All this has made me quite sick. I am struggling just to complete my assignments for this semester.
I really do not understand why it is up to me as a student with mental illness to deal with this issue on my own. With every UTAS employee telling me it is not their problem. I am not paid by UTAS, but I can see the errors of mismanagement and failures of maintenance. I get no reward for this.
I guess I will find out more after I have spoken to Social Science Administration. I did not call them today because dealing with this issue upsets me so much that I lose a whole day every time I think about it.
Example 1:
After months of emails to Campus Services regarding graffiti on campus nothing was done. I had to call Hobart City Council myself to get the graffiti removed.
Why was UTAS Campus Services not able to contact Hobart City Council themselves? Why was nothing done?
Example 2:
I have offered my services to Source Community Wholefoods Co-operative. to paint a sign for them in the "TUU tunnel" (property of Hobart City Council). Vicki Blackburn has refused this on the grounds that Source is not a Society.
Source was established by the Environment Collective/Society. Further, it is a not-for-profit community focused co-operative. The tunnel is not the property of TUU or UTAS but of Hobart City Council.
Example 3:
Students with lockers in the TUU building are not permitted to access the building after hours.
However, Muslim students are permitted to access the TUU building after hours.
On what grounds is this discrimination authorized?
Vicki Blackburn says it is because "that is the way it has always been". Is this really an appropriate attitude for a progressive, forward looking university? Which claims to be a world class university?
Please reform UTAS,
Felix Herbener.
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