It took this for UH to try to limit access to AAH. They put out the same halfass’d statement which caused everyone to rile up.
I know you guys reach out and provide feedback to Athletics, and get a bunch of season tickets. I don’t know how fast UH will do something, but I gave a bit to the Fund for UH and put down:
“This is specifically made for the University of Houston to begin taking immediate action for the prevention of student suicides in Agnes Arnold Hall, and any other campus buildings that can pose the same problem”
If y’all are able to do the same, please do. Maybe it will force their hand. Specifically for the Fund for UH. Sounds weird, but strength in numbers and alumni threats I guess.
They either have to use the money to fix AAH, or they can’t use the donation at all. Ridiculous that they didn’t try last month.
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(DustinK - Still 76 hostages held by Hamas for over 15 months)
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Direct your donation to CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services) instead of the fund for uh. It will go more directly to address the cause. I donate to them annually.
Every time I think of that building, I think of the massive falling block that fell from above me down to the courtyard below.
One day after a final in Spring 97 (freshman year), I was a few floors up looking out across campus while on the balcony. I think i was between a daydream and reflecting on how my abysmal semester went.
Suddenly, and quietly out of the corner of my eye I see something falling about 10-15 feet away. Then it hit like a bomb on the exposed aggregate courtyard below. It was so surreal, it happened so quick, my mind didn’t even have time to process it until I saw people come out from under the AGH below and look around and up. Then it began to sink in the gravity (no pun intended) of what just happened. So lucky someone wasn’t killed or injured. As I recall the building was being worked on that year, and I think it was due to that. An errant massive block of concrete fell like a silent missile. The block looked to be the size of a suitcase. Easily as big as maybe 4-6 cinder blocks tied together and not hollow.
I had freshman English in the open air basement in Agnes Arnold. Even then I remember looking up and realizing it would be too easy for someone to jump from there.
From news reports today it sounds like AA is going to be closed for the semester, and then torn down and replaced.
