Get Women's Studies out of Benson!
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The Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia is currently housed in the Benson Building on Lumpkin Street. This building, allegedly slated for demolition in 2001, is hardly an adequate facility for Women's Studies at UGA.
The physical state of the building is deplorable. Boasting black mold, potential asbestos, dead vermin, and a crumbling structure, the Benson building literally poses a health threat to any student, faculty, or staff member who spends a significant amount of time there. The administration should be deeply concerned with the health and safety of the over 120 Women's Studies students.
With approximately 50 Women's Studies majors, 40 minors, 2 undergraduate certificate students, 40 graduate certificate students, and countless students from other disciplines who take introductory Women's Studies courses, the Benson Building cannot accommodate the needs of Women's Studies students on campus.
This semester alone, 20 undergraduate WMST courses and 6 graduate WMST courses are being taught by the 10 core faculty members and 7 part-time instructors and graduate teaching assistants. However, the Benson building has only one classroom, two faculty offices, two staff offices, and a small library.
Students with classes in Benson must travel from all over campus to the isolated building on Lumpkin with no accessible bus stops, and most core faculty and teaching assistants must trek from their offices in North Campus to simply teach their classes or meet with students.
Many core and affiliate faculty are spread all over campus due to Benson's dismal capacity, and courses that are taught in Benson cannot be concurrently scheduled due to the lack of classrooms. Women's Studies students and faculty deserve a centralized location where they can meet, host discussions, lectures, and events, and hold more than one small class at a time.
With an essentially unoccupied art building sitting on North Campus, the Institute for Women's Studies should not have to fight to get an adequate learning space for its students. Women's Studies students at Georgia's flagship institution deserve better!
By signing this petition, you can tell the University that you care about Women's Studies. Let the administration know that you WILL NOT accept the terrible conditions imposed on Women's Studies students, faculty, and staff, and help get Women's Studies out of Benson!
The physical state of the building is deplorable. Boasting black mold, potential asbestos, dead vermin, and a crumbling structure, the Benson building literally poses a health threat to any student, faculty, or staff member who spends a significant amount of time there. The administration should be deeply concerned with the health and safety of the over 120 Women's Studies students.
With approximately 50 Women's Studies majors, 40 minors, 2 undergraduate certificate students, 40 graduate certificate students, and countless students from other disciplines who take introductory Women's Studies courses, the Benson Building cannot accommodate the needs of Women's Studies students on campus.
This semester alone, 20 undergraduate WMST courses and 6 graduate WMST courses are being taught by the 10 core faculty members and 7 part-time instructors and graduate teaching assistants. However, the Benson building has only one classroom, two faculty offices, two staff offices, and a small library.
Students with classes in Benson must travel from all over campus to the isolated building on Lumpkin with no accessible bus stops, and most core faculty and teaching assistants must trek from their offices in North Campus to simply teach their classes or meet with students.
Many core and affiliate faculty are spread all over campus due to Benson's dismal capacity, and courses that are taught in Benson cannot be concurrently scheduled due to the lack of classrooms. Women's Studies students and faculty deserve a centralized location where they can meet, host discussions, lectures, and events, and hold more than one small class at a time.
With an essentially unoccupied art building sitting on North Campus, the Institute for Women's Studies should not have to fight to get an adequate learning space for its students. Women's Studies students at Georgia's flagship institution deserve better!
By signing this petition, you can tell the University that you care about Women's Studies. Let the administration know that you WILL NOT accept the terrible conditions imposed on Women's Studies students, faculty, and staff, and help get Women's Studies out of Benson!
643 Signatures
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April Greene
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- As a Women's Studies major, I am appalled at the condition of this building. The Institute for Women's Studies is such a valuable and vital academic program at the University of Georgia, and the feminist scholarship supported by IWS only increases UGA's image as a leader in research and academics. Frankly, I cannot believe that the University has so little respect for me and my peers in Women's Studies. We want OUT of Benson!
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Zaid Jilani
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Tiffany Ball
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Cameron Kresl
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Avery Leigh White
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Clayton Ford
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Karen Sundstrom
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Brittney Baack
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Kate Babka
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- As a former IWS graduate student and instructor, I wholeheartedly support any move to get the program out of Benson and into a more adequate and centralized site.
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Amy Whisenhunt
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xavier kim
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Caroline C. Kilgore
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Ashley Speagle
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Kathleen Allison McCullen
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- We should not have to ask the university to consider the needs of its students and teachers!
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Diane Samdahl
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- The move to Benson was to be temporary yet years later it still houses the women's studies program. The building is deplorable and reflects poorly on UGA where elegant buildings and well-manicured landscape create a sense of pride-of-place for alumni and residents of Georgia. In stark contrast to the rest of campus, the implicit message of housing women's studies in Benson is a loud--and hopefully incorrect--dismissal of the value of the women's studies program to the university community.
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Olivia Taylor
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Franklin Ard
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- I am a 2007 graduate of the women's studies program.
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James Dustin Baker
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- I support the WMST department getting a better building and more adequate resources as soon as possible.
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Jennifer Cole
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- I am a women's studies minor, and surprised this petition hasn't occurred sooner;Benson is notorious for being an obsolete building even for people outside of women's studies.
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Emily Brock
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Whitney Waters
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Syeda Hira Mahmood
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Brooke McDaniel
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Karen Sichler
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Ray MacNair
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Kathleen Lynch
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Chip Tyndale
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Lucas Franklin
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- graduate of the wmst program
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Sarah Smith
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Craig Wiegert
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- This building is a physical mockery of the University's supposed commitment to diversity and gender equity.
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Amanda Trader
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- My eyes often begin to itch when I remain in the Benson building for more than thirty minutes.
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Blaise Astra Parker
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- PLEASE!!!!
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Natalie Blackburn
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Andrew Schwegler
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Caroline Bowman
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Callie Dodd
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Rebecca Cheney
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Carlye Norton
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Shelly Ford
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Denechia Powell
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Matthew Boynton
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Chelsea Chatham
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Kelsea Norris
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Joanna Randazzo
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Christian Avalon
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Kacy Welsh
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Morgan O'Kelley
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- The conditions of Benson described in the petion are detestable. I can't believe something hasn't been done by now.
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Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander
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Kristina Cromwell
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Rebecca Primm
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