My name is Joshua Matthews.
I'm a sophomore here at N.I.U.
Major Undecided.
I've been at Neptune for 2 years.
Between Neptune and New Hall
which residence hall has the greatest
amount of resources allocated
and why do you believe this?
I would say New Hall mainly because
it is like an expensive building
and gives you a higher living standard.
Annnnnnnd
...
It's pretty much hard to get into
if you don't have the money.
Do you believe that residential
segregation is present at N.I.U?
Why or Why not?
Oh definitely because umm when you look at
Ummm like
Neptune its really not that renovated they
didn't finish renting out any buildings or
(Collecting Thoughts)
the dorms. They promised us a game room
and they said it would have a pool table
and there's a Ping-Pong table and then
when you go to New Hall it looks perfect.
And it's more expensive so its kind of
like they give less funding to the places
that need them.
Hi i'm a student at N.I.U. I'm currently
a senior and i'm going to graduate this
semester. I have been here at N.I.U. for
2 years. I currently live in New Hall
otherwise last year I lived in Neptune.
Preparing Question
What would you say are the racial make ups
of Neptune and New Hall?
Thinking
I definitely feel that living in New Hall
there's definitely a large majority of
Caucasians residents compared to Neptune.
And in Neptune I feel that there's lesser
comparison of Caucasians there.
When you lived in either New Hall or
Neptune or both what was it like living
there? (Silent Pause)
Having the semi-private bathrooms
available for New Hall residents
definitely feels like a luxury compared
to having a shared bathroom in Neptune
with a whole floor of girls. Half a floor
of girls because its one wing and the
other wing. But, there was lots of messes
left in the bathrooms that were very
disgusting and it was very frustrating.
Then the bsw (building service workers)
they would have to deal with it constantly
And I was really concerned because we were
going to be threatened to pay fines
because of these messes because they
didn't know who was leaving them so
several times I cleaned up the messes
because I couldn't afford to pay a fine
for somebody else's messes they'd been
leaving in the bathrooms and even once
my mom cleaned a mess in the bathroom
because she knew that I wouldn't have
enough money to pay at least a fifty
dollar fine for some fool who keeps making
messes in the bathrooms. So its just
really hard dealing with that but living
here at New hall I really appreciate that
I am responsible for cleaning my own
bathroom and I am very responsible and
efficient with cleaning and I know that
I'm just cleaning my own messes so I don't
have to deal with that.
