Hello fellow community. I write to you in hopes that the changes brought out by this message will reach you as well as incoming students. The first issue amongst this school is the lack of money management. I’m sure you’re aware of the locks in Map Hill and Park Manor North. The “really high tech” ones that lock you out if you leave the door alone, and without your onecard leads to a long wait for your roomate or a call to Babo. These annoying locks are not only unnecessary, but over priced. Market value of locks like these range from $700-900 each. And Babson is considering using these locks in all dorms. Could you imagine how much money it would cost to fund all 15 or so dorms??? And where is that money coming from??? The money would be better spent on an exterminator to eliminate all of the rats in Forest, or better (or more) bathrooms/showers for the dorms, or even they could lower tuition.

Another problem with this school and money is the fact that Babson flat out extorts us out of money, and because they are a business entity and we are “lowly worms” they can get away with it. For example, one student I know moved from a triple to a double, literally 3-4 rooms down the hall (on the same floor of the same dorm building) and was hit with a $350 bill for the move…This makes as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antietam. Another student moved from one dorm to another one (with Air Conditioning) and was hit with a $400-$500 bill, in which the A/C was only on for about a week longer (then they shut it off). I wonder how much they charge an hour to have Air Conditioned Dorms.

Another idea on how to improve Babson would be to have students return on Sundays, or on weekends, instead of during the middle of the week. The current plan disables many parents from going with the students (because of their work, and you’d think a business school would take that into account) and, in turn for having these few “free days”, we are punished with the Friday class at the end of the week. Now returning on weekends would save a day and not cost anybody wasted time/energy, and we’d save the Friday for whatever students do on Fridays.