CSULB fine arts students say portable AC units aren't enough during heat waves and ceilings tiles are falling. They say they want to see renovations.
California State University Long Beach students say their fine arts buildings do not have central air condition and parts of the ceiling have been falling.
Huizar says the lack of air conditioning has been an ongoing issue. She says cooling rooms that are set up on hot days are not cool enough and portable air condition units are leaking outside the building or being drained into the sink where they wash paintbrushes."All they did was screw them in with these placement holders, so when you go in, you see the little circles, the holders, screwed into the edges of each tile. They're still breaking and some of them are still falling.
In pursuing solutions, we confront many issues. At the system level, the CSU receives a fraction of the deferred maintenance and capital funds required by the campuses to repair or renovate space. And we, at The Beach, share only a fraction of that with 22 other campuses. Here at The Beach, we are forced to make difficult decisions on how to prioritize the funds we do receive.