Opinion in Brief: The best-laid plans

You should be glad today if you aren’t one of the honors students living in West Grace Student Housing. (To those who are, that kind of sucks for you.)

Their private bathrooms aren’t doing them much good, not for bathing anyway, seeing as they haven’t had hot water since 7 a.m. Wednesday. Residents on the upper floors are lucky if they’ve had any water pressure at all since then. And at the same time, all of the building has been without heat. Granted it’s only a 12-hour ordeal, and it’s not exactly snowing outside, but still. Smart people probably need showers like everyone else.

This had to be done for renovations – you know, the same thing that has you and 56 other students crammed into a shoebox in the Business Building; the thing that scatters your classes across campus; the same thing that makes exams an elbows-in deal in Temple’s lecture halls.

But of course all of this will pay off in the future. VCU is going to rock after it finishes all these renovations. Too bad that a good portion of the students who have to put up with the crappy part won’t be here to revel the glorious aftermath.