Babson, an institution that prides itself upon its ethics and management skills as being first and foremost among its principles. But strangely, more than just the majority, more like almost all of the management are not educated or trained in or even aware of Babson’s curriculum or principle beliefs. See where I’m going yet?

A long time ago, my father instilled in me that in order for anyone to take you seriously, you need to practice what you preach. If you don’t follow through, with what you profess to others, you’ll lose their trust and their respect. Pretty simple lesson for a 7 or 8 year old to understand. Yet still, it seems that someone here in Babson’s uppermost management seems to have missed that one.

Lets go through a lil bit of recent events in Administration here at Babson.

• Library Rennovation: Last Year (can’t remember which semester exactly), Babson decides to revamp the front patio of the library. Alright, no big deal. Doesn’t really need it but maybe it’ll look nice.
• We get an idea to put a fountain in. Awesome!
• While laying the plumbing, for the fountain, Babson administration ceases all construction on the fountain having realized that the fountain is on the highest traffic route for Knight parties. Additionally, with the amount of careless smokers out in front of the library they’d be burning up $1000+ pumps once every two weeks due to cigarette butts clogging the pump.
• Wanna piss Barefoot off? Along the front most wall is a flower bed with these cube-like blocks along the border to the patio. They fall over if you step on them. Barefoot hates it when the view out his office isn’t perfect. I’m not advocating any vandalism or theft of these beds, but I’m just saying, Barefoot is anal about that shit.
• Outcome: The Fountain of Flags… need I say more? Maybe, but I suppose its such a nice day outside that maybe we should just go enjoy the lovely view from across the street of the library and the patio itslef. Wait, are those just overgrown weeds amongst those flagpoles?
• OCL: All I need to say here is, please come back Arlene, you’re the only person with a brain in that office. If anyone knows what kind of car Trish Godino drives, please contact me on AIM: Reverend Esby. I honestly don’t know if I can even cover every infraction they’ve committed against the students.
• Housing Lottery: (see my earlier entry about OCL)
• Summer Living summed up:
• They hardly cleaned Putney.
• They fucked up room assignments.
• They tried moving new people in with current residents after failing to notify the current resident that they were even getting a roommate. (Please consider if it were your room and you were taking full advantage of your privacy and suddenly someone starts unlocking your door)
• It took over 3 weeks to actually fix an a/c unit that was leaking water onto the floor. After a weeks worth of complaints, their first solution to a leaking/faulty evaporator unit in the a/c unit is….. da da dahhhhh! a dehumidifier. No I’m not joking. Hope you’re not allergic to mold if you live or want to live in Putney!
• In the middle of the summer, people who had nice rooms on the 4th floor were forced to move into other rooms in order to make room for some Italian exchange students who were here for some Babson program.
• John “Redman” Roche: John, I’m real sorry about whats going on, but if you don’t mind, I’m gonna plug the “Save John Roche Petition” on facebook right now. Hopefully that link works. If not, just search out the group on facebook. Please go there and read the full story but I’ll throw in a quote from the site for a lil teaser.

“In [MapHill] suite 516, room b, lives a man; a man of greatness, a man of passion, but a man who’s sophomore status threatens the constitution of the Office of Campus Life.That man is John Roche.”

• Long story short, OCL is just now trying to throw him out after he’s already been there all this time and they’ve known about it all summer.
• Parents have been calling about this issue but they need all of our support in their effort. So please, the only way we can make our lives here any better is if we take a collective effort as a student body to move against this administration that thinks we’re here to make them look good.
• Map (Crap) Hill: read Crap Hill Drive. Sero covers it pretty well seeing as he lives there. In my opinion, that is one of the worst designed buildings on Babson’s campus. They obviously just looked at a bunch of designs and picked the cheapest one. Nice to know that our tuition dollars are being spent well…
• Post Commencement HR activity: Now I hope anyone who has ever lived with or known a union laborer gets a little fire in their belly from this one. Immediately after commencement, the campus is trimmed up for the summer and looking ok but grounds and housekeeping are pushed by management to try and get things done ahead of the traditional schedule. Why? Because they lined up 35 pink slips for 35 oh-so-lucky employees. Thats right folks, 35 people, 26 from housekeeping and 6 from grounds and fields, who used to be important to making sure this campus looked awesome and stayed clean, were suddenly deemed unnecesarry and cut from the budget. Flagpoles and flowers are more important than the cleanliness of your dormitories. To all those who have to clean your bathrooms yourselves now, how does that make you feel considering you pay more than some apartments and definitely are on the high end of tuitions across the nation. 44 fuckin thousand dollars a year, AND you get to clean your own toilets! What a deal. I’d really like to see where all the money they’re saving is going. Maybe senseless things that make us think they’re doing good? Read on, dear friend.
• Trim: looks great… I love that Institution Yellow and Soggy Pea Green color scheme. Ok, maybe thats a little trivial to knock, but c’mon. They think they can just move things around a bit, slap down some smaller, cooler looking countertops, and that’ll make us really feel like the food and service is better? Sorry, I had to skip lunch today since the lines were too long for my 40 minute lunch break. I am happy they put air conditioning in there which everyone, except the freshmen, notices and appreciates, so we have to be thankful for that. But seriously, the a/c only keeps my temper cool until I realize that my already shitty food is now cold since the lines took too long. bitches.
• Mosaic Style Sidewalks: Alright now this is the secondmost stupid thing Babson has been up to in their recent activities. If you’ve been up Map Hill drive, then I’m sure you’ve seen them. My favorite one is the one for the crosswalks from Hollister to Trim. It’s right next to a normal painted crosswalk and personally, I don’t think anything could make our campus look cheaper than two mismatched crosswalks right next to each other. It sticks out like a fluorescent speedo at MTV’s Springbreak. Now I just mentioned that its right next to a normal painted crosswalk, and I feel some people might be saying, “wait, thats not painted?” No. Let me explain to you how its actually laid down. First, the pavement is heated up until it is soft and malleable. Next, they lay down a template and use a gas operated tamping machine that basically pounds an impression into the pavement from this template. Finally, they lay down a thick, tape like material in the impression, and I’m not sure if its just sticky or if they melt it again but I do know that this whole process takes about 3 hours PER CROSSWALK! It used to take Babson about 3 hours to paint every crosswalk on campus! I’m no expert on imitation mosaic crosswalks but 3 hours of labor per crosswalk has definitely got to cost some serious loot. On top of all that, they’re ugly. There, I’m done with that one.
• Golf Course Beautifcation Project: What? HUH?! Whoa now, what the hell is this. Right out the main gate of our campus, you may have noticed what appears to be some construciton activity. Someone in Babson Administration thought it would really help make our entrance look even nicer and more noticeable if we take the land across the street (which isn’t ours), and make it look all pretty. Well guess what, they also thought it would be done before school started. Where’s that sound for the wrong answer buzzer? Yeah anyways, they’re fuckin morons. If you’ve been watching it, they’ve had to do so much prep work just to all that ready to even plant in it; pulling out boulders, trees and stumps, basically ripping everything out in there. and boy doesn’t that front gate look good right now (if you’re missing the sarcasm, you’d probably miss the sun). Look, no one is gonna think its anymore beautfied just cause you blew about 30 grand developing shit that you don’t even own. Of course the golf course ain’t complainin’.

Ok, so now I’m done with the evidence so lets wrap this thing up. Babson prides itself on the ethics they teach. Last year a few kids in the ethics class had to do an ethical study. So they picked the housekeeping staff. Lets just say the Babson teaching faculty were not to happy when they saw the results. Babson may teach us these wonderful humanitarian ethics, but they do not practice them. So how is that gonna look if any of our pottential employers know how this school works more than what it teaches.

I was speaking with one of the facilities people and they have asked me to tell you all to do something to help them. Complain. Flood Babson’s facilities administration with complaints about the service and cleaning you have received this year, ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE IN MAP HILL!!! These guys have a whole new dorm to be cleaning in addition to every other one and they have 26 less people. That’s cruel. So to help get more people on the payroll again, please send in some complaints and have your parents complain that your dorms and buildings aren’t getting adequate cleaning attention often enough.

Oh and btw, I recently heard OCL is investigating us here at crapcampus.com. I’m just gonna say this. They wanna make a big deal over our freedom of speech, do it. Please. Two phonecalls and the Boston Globe will be all over your shit and you’ll be out of a job and me and my class mates will be quite pissed that your negligence to serve US, the students, has cost us a hit to the reputation of our degree. I don’t want to do it, but if OCL wants to bring it, then here we are waiting, middle fingers fully extended. You bitches up there, Trish Godino and all the other moronic fools, I own you. And I will make that publicly known. Try me. I dare you. Just be good to the students and remember that you’re here to help us.

Send this entry to your folks, kiddies.

The Good Reverend at your service,
Reverend Esby.