Kraettli is the worst of student housing. It’s farther from campus than the dorms and significantly lower in quality than Traditions Square.
While Traditions East, which is only four years old, is receiving renovations to keep it up to date and looking like new, Kraettli’s renovations are to update the roof.
Kraettli’s one benefit is that rent is nearly $200 cheaper than Traditions.
But students still aren’t getting their money’s worth.
The quality of life in Kraettli needs to be increased.
Instead of letting Kraettli go to pot, only renovated when it borders on livability, Housing and Food Services should follow its own example with Traditions and upgrade Kraettli more than simply for livability. And because Kraettli is lagging behind, they should cancel the upgrades of Traditions Square and put all those efforts into Kraettli until it’s on par.
Fixing a roof is a different matter than upgrading televisions; it’s more important and it should be a priority.
Kraettli doesn’t need the resort feel that surrounds Traditions, but a working roof, kitchen and a little less mold would be a good start.
It only makes sense to fix the big problems first. And a bad roof is a big problem for student housing.
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TheTroll 2 years, 3 months ago
Nice point, TheJR. I take back my previous comment.
But it was a nice try. Really it was.
TheTroll 2 years, 3 months ago
Finally, an editorial with issues and meat and sexy. Good.
TheJR 2 years, 3 months ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there just an article (in this same paper, mind you) about Kraettli renovations scheduled to take place soon?
http://oudaily.com/news/2010/feb/10/k... Huh, 2 days ago.
So... you're saying they need to fix a problem, one that they said 2 days ago is being addressed. Man, that's deep.