UC Berkeley unveils new 'luxury' dorm for transfer students
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- UC Berkeley is getting ready to unveil a brand new 14-story student housing building that many are saying resembles a luxury hotel more than a dorm. And with good reason, ABC7 News got a sneak peak at the first donor-funded housing built at Cal in almost 80 years. abc7ne.ws/3SDLbo0
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Nice, hope they have good security for the building too
I guess being clean is now a Luxury
It is a luxury. You have no idea how unhygienic some undergrads are. It’s a miracle if it stays that clean by the end of the year.
lucky!!!! I'm a transfer student here and I came one year too early to qualify for this :(
But you're still getting an amazing education. Best of luck to you
Now you can worry about your impending student loan debt in comfort.
Student debt is a choice
lol Berkeley is insanely cheap if you're in state, especially if youre only there for 2 years bc you did the first two in community college
Aw that's great , I wish I had something like this when I was a transfer at Berkeley. Great for the new incoming students. Studying is fun and you might get to live in a cute place
My friend was a transfer student and she lived in the co-ops. I skipped dorm life but wasn’t ready for apartment life so I moved straight into the co-ops. 20 years on and we’re still friends. This space is amazing and I hope they can maintain the facilities!
I will graduate from UC Berkeley, I just started my community college journey, I’m 23, by 2026 this facility should be well underway, working my a off already!
Wow! That's really nice!
A lottery? That's sad
I wish Berkeley would stop allowing the destruction of its legacy businesses and unique architecture. The history and character of the town is being paved over...beyond the limits its infrastructure can handle.
I wish Berkeley would stop literally forcing students into homelessness because there isn't any housing
I hope this goes to low income transfer students only.
lottery
Why? Are u classist?
Did you hear the man say that 95% of transfer students come from community colleges?
How generous!
Helen Diller is a shining example of philanthropy.
the safety is undermined
I paid $800 semester tuition back in the day 🤗
Nice😊
So nice this was privately funded. Of course I knew the comments would consist of so much whining. That is so Berkeley.
What I want to say can't be printed.
I would like to know
So much for colleges being about educating students.
It looks like some kind of high end hostile...
*hostel. Definitely hope the building and area are not hostile.
700 new students! In case you haven't noticed (or care) city mayor and UC president, downtown Berkeley has 2 grocery stores, and Target Express is tiny, and Trader Joe's under-stocked. There is no more Walgreens or CVS. Where are the huge numbers of people you have brought into the town in all the large buildings that have mushroomed in a short time, where are they and us supposed to buy food? We'll be squeezing into the buses and bart and crowding the sidewalks. All you care about is $$$.
Safeway and Berkeley Bowl are within walking distance or a very short bike or bus ride from the new facility. These grocery stores are much larger than Trader Joe's or the Target Express you mention. Plus students can purchase an on or off campus meal plan (usually included in your housing contract), corner convenience stores, and many restaurants nearby. Also there's two (out of three) farmers markets that are within walking distance that occur weekly and of course, grocery delivery services like Instacart (or free if you're an Amazon Prime member). So basically there's lots of alternatives for these students. W/r/t your comment about crowded bus, BART, and sidewalks, it's usually only first thing in the morning in my 15+ years living in Berkeley that I've experienced it commuting and it's not as bad as what pre-pandemic bridge and tunnel commuters experienced. If it bothers me, I just commute earlier or wait for the next bus/train. Meal and trip planning make quite a difference!
@@snurchy The university is swallowing up the entire city. It's a soulless mall downtown now.
700 ppl is not nearly enough people to that much of an affect on anything lol like that is a tiny number in comparison to the city's population also they are college students most of them will probably be eating campus provided food not shopping at trader joes lol
If you want to see luxury dorms, watch Back to School and see what Melon did to the dorms.
Luxury should never be in a college’s vocabulary. It should be “affordable”.
yes!
If u can’t afford it thrn don’t go
Also UC Berkeley is a very affordable college
Everyone seems to have a different definition of luxury. I don't see anything that says "luxury" to me in that building.
You must be insanely privileged
@@isaacthomson4246 Not at all, but I've seen what luxury looks like in videos and movies, plus I've known some rich people and seen their homes. I myself am poor. The dorm room I lived in when I went to college wasn't as nice as those. But that still doesn't make them luxurious.
The common areas look great, but the dorms look like depressing. Prisoners in Norway have more welcoming rooms. I am fine with simple dorms, but I bet the dorm room costs are not cheap.
Why are you comparing it to rich peoples home and not other college dorm rooms?@@mattbosley3531
The views??? Holy shit !!!
Reverse racism at Berkeley is a new 1
Only a handful of transfer students who won the lotto can live here, but everyone will be paying for it, thank you very much!
A wealthy donor paid for most of it. It's a good deal for the school and provides much-needed housing.
@@drypojall of it
this place is going to be trashed in 3 months
UCB has taken over Berkeley.
That’s pretty much been the case for a while now…
lol, where you been? 😂
this is a good start. next stop, lower tuition significantly for all students
How much lower do you want it to be? You're getting the equivalent of an Ivy League education for $16,000/yr and if you're poor you don't even pay that.
@@celestialnubianBro is just casually ignoring out of state students who have to carry the brunt of that benefit by paying triple. Costs need to be reduced for everyone.
@@keepitstraightfrrr Whatever state those "out of state" students come form... they have state schools there that are probably an even better bargain.
@@celestialnubian No- no state school is going to be a better bargain than UCLA & Berkeley since they both take the #1 spot.
@@keepitstraightfrrr Unless you have a reason to go to a top school, a $5,000/yr state school is the best choice because with the Pell Grant you won't pay anything.
They're always luxurious for about a semester. Then they're trashed.
Nothing is trashed. This get worn over time due to use and most of the interior design at least as we can see it's cheap furniture. They need to build things to last 50-100 years.
Don’t wonder if these kids go to college come out saying you’re beneath me oh, I deserve better. What the hell? Why on earth with anybody need all that luxury when they’re going to school I forgot they took out student loans that the rest of us have to pay for. That’s how they can afford it.
No one is paying their loans.
It’s also really not that luxurious, it’s just thoughtfully designed. It’s not like it has a spa, or a free Equinox gym. It’s just housing, and extra space for students in a new building, rather than an old run down building.
It's for the ball players. Cal is in a new, more competitive conference. They need to attract higher performing athletes.
@@anthonysnyder1152 Are you sure? Didn't several politicians promise student loan forgiveness? Taxpayers (many of whom are not wealthy) will be on the hook for these loans.
@@calvincoolidge1207 Tell me where on your taxes do you see how much you’ve spent on student loan forgiveness. Or for that matter what about the military? What about repaving the roads in Yosemite? Or the grants to NASA to built rockets? You act as if you’re spending money out of your own wallet but probably don’t realize how much you contribute to things you never can see or own. That said - there hasn’t been any major student loans forgiveness. I don’t believe that’s the solution to high cost of education anyway.
This is an insult to the decades of injustice for California renters who are condemned to substandard housing.
Exactly. Tons of new student housing and only one new building for thousands of adult citizens who have paid taxes and contributed to this country for decades and who know our laws and Constitution.
@@Jesse-gr2xo Blame the owners of the non-student housing properties. This housing unit should alleviate some of the pressure in the market. Landlords won't budge easily, but the lower demand should have an impact over the years. That is, if the university doesn't jack up enrollment to pay for the administrator's outrageous salaries and benefits.
How much money does education bring to the city of Berkeley. So you don't care that 400 low income students a year will get a chance at a better life and hopefully become taxpayers or teachers?
@@karencarpenter5845 We can only hope this is for students from low-income families. I may have missed the part about low-income families. I heard "junior college transfers" which could mean a lot of things, including Cal football ringers and rich international students with tiger mothers who know local junior colleges are backdoors to UC Berkeley.
@@Jesse-gr2xo yes
This is outrageous. As a a student I would take affordable anyday over luxury. The way these colleges..and mind you STATE colleges are wasting money is just plain crazy.
Berkeley’s already a very affordable school. It’s a public university
@@shawyonsharifi3394 calling Berkeley affordable when comparing it to other state universities 🤦♂️
@@portcybertryx222 Berkley tuition is literally less than 50k a year
This was all privately funded construction. Did you not even watch before commenting? How did the state waste money if entire building was donated to the school???
@@1970rsc privately funded but universities still have a say in how endowments are used and which ones they accept. Plus creating this artificial divide doesn’t make sense.
What a shit show it's only about money
I can't deal with this unless I know the pronouns of everyone in this story!
hahahahahaha
If ID is not checked and things aren't bolted down, expect the city's hobos to have a field day. Get security for the entrances and one to rove about. Tell the junior college Cal football ringers to keep the old neighborhood homies away, too.
as long as folks like you stay away, they’ll probably be fine
Damn
Must be nice 🙄
WGAS !!!? total BS....