We need public art. We need public gathering places. Last summer when the temperatures were amazingly hot they closed the commons for two weeks, so that people who were here had no air-conditioned place to sit. It feels to the student that decisions are made to benefit someone other than students. I think we need to differentiate between graduate and undergraduate.
Undergraduates are here only three quarters.
I think we need to talk about graduate students. I think UCR's effort to grow so quickly has been a problem, and it must be remedied by putting more money into graduate education. It is still very hard to pay for grad school. You are either teaching all the time or you have too much to pay back. When I am teaching I don't have time to do my own research.