Fix The Door!

Campaign Overview

We here in the STTC building of San Francisco State University pay nearly 1200 dollars a month to live here. With prices like that, you would expect one’s front door to function. This is not the case here in the STTC building, where even entering your living space can become a major chore. The front door of the STTC breaks from 2-3 times a week. When the front door is broken, there is no way to pry it open and we’re not allowed to use the maintenance doors. The only exit is through the back, leading the exact opposite direction as the classrooms, with no way to get back to the front besides a long walk around the block. The fact that we pay 1200 dollars a month and our front door doesn’t work is simply absurd, and we demand the entrance be fixed.

The Demand

Fix the door! Make it so we can use it every day with no problems. Spend some money on a repairman. Whatever it takes—it can’t be that much! Seriously.

The Action

Our action is going to be awesome. It will consist of submitting written and verbal complaints, clogging the RHA office, and eventually, chanting all together. I think it will be quite a display. Listen up, here are the details:

The action will take place the Monday after this campaign tips, whenever that is (as long it tips during the school year when we’re all here). That Monday we will congregate in the lobby at STTC at 8:45am, so we can go over our plan & leave as a group. Then once everyone is there we’ll all walk together to the RHA offices located on the back of Mary Ward Hall.

Once we arrive, we will form a long line in the RHA office. One by one we will submit a written complaint to the person at the desk. (I can send you each a template complaint to just sign so you don’t have to write it, or you can write your own if you like). The written complaint will basically state what is already stated above, that the door is constantly in disrepair causing us constant inconveniences, and that as paying tenants we are demanding that they fix it. One by one we will give them the written complaint, and then also verbally express the complaint, saying essentially the same information that is included in the written complaint. After each person is done (should take each person 1-2 minutes), they’ll go to the back of the line. So we’ll have 30 people cycling through this line doing the same thing over & over again. Even if we all only go through once, it will clog their office for at least 30 minutes. We can all go through once or twice, and then I’ll signal to everyone at some point when it seems appropriate, & then we’ll all start chanting “Fix the door! Fix the door!” for 3-5 minutes or so. All together, the entire action should take somewhere between 45 and 75 minutes. After we chant, then we can go!