New Housing Stopped
The Student Association in Bergen’s (SiB) plans to build
shared apartments units were blocked by ROS, the advisory
apparatus for student housing, because the individual rooms
would be one square meter too small.
-I hate ROS, says an exasperated Vibeke Herikstad from SiB,
following a discussion concerning the cost of the planned
housing units at Sverresgate. SiB’s proposal was to build
units that would be shared because they would be less expensive
per person, and many students prefer living with other students.
Because the planned rooms would not be large enough, ROS recommended
that the Department of Education and Research (UFD) not provide
funding. UFD is covering 60 per cent of construction costs
at the Sverresgate housing area. The cheapest apartments at
the Sverresgate housing area rent out at NKr 3 400 per month,
while the most luxurious units go for NKr 5 900, electricity
not included. However, the elevators talk, and the rubbish
system is top-notch.
Training Center to be Built
UiB plans on using NKr 500 000 to build new exercise facilities
at the Student Center even though the center is due to be
torn down in only a few years.
-Our opinion was that this was economically sound, because
the amount involved was so small. If we’d leased premises
elsewhere, we would soon have reached this amount anyway,
says Sverre Spildo, Vice-president at UiB. The new exercise
area is being built to relieve the Vektertorget facility,
which has become so successful that overcrowding has become
a problem.
Just Average
About 80 per cent of students at the Faculty of Arts (HF)
and the Faculty of Social Sciences receive grades ranging
between 2.1 and 3.0. (1 is the best and 4 is the worst of
the counting grades. Below 4, you don’t pass the exam.) This
is true of most faculties, though a wider spread is found
at Faculty of Maths and Natural Sciences, for example. -There
is an enormous variation in how grades are given, but we hope
that the new system to be introduced in the summer of 2003,
based on letters (A-F), will improve the situation, says Etelka
Dahl, Director of Studies at UiB.
RUSSEL SHULER
24.04.02
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