This week on Chronversations: A conversation with students about inflation and resources on campus
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0:08: Welcome back to the Chronicle Conversations.
0:11: I’m your host, Aaron Guzman.
0:13: This week on Chronversations, students talk about their ability to afford resources on campus with incoming price increases and inflation.
0:23: Junior Bobby McNamara talks about their ability to afford the resources that the college provides and their reliability.
0:31: I don’t know because it feels like these resources are like, kind of here but like I don’t know like this food court is like, really expensive.
0:44 Like, I don’t know. I guess it can be affordable to some but like I don’t know, to get something healthier to more like obtain or sustain you, it’s really expensive and like the MakerSpace is like, I know like that’s like a lot of I think donated things but like that’s dwindling too.
0:58 I feel like with the library, especially like the school shop, not like the students, like the ones that students make, but like the ones to get textbooks and folders is so expensive.
1:09: I can never get anything there ever, so I would say probably not.
1:15: McNamara also talks about how increasing prices within the college and the city could potentially turn away incoming students.
1:23: Turn away new students.
1:24: 100% if they’re looking at the right things.
1:27: I, I mean, definitely it’s, it’s stuff in the resources here like the price has increased dramatically since I started here like 2 years ago or whatever, almost 3 years ago, about 2 years ago, whatever.
1:43: But I think I didn’t do enough of my research because of how much it is like advertised as like a lot different than it is if that makes any sense which I feel like a lot of just universities in general do that but I definitely think that it would turn down incoming students if they’re not looking.
2:05: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that food prices have already increased by 1.1% in the month of January and by 1.8% for food at home prices.
2:18: That’s all for this week.
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2:35: I’m Aaron Guzman.
2:36: Thanks for listening.
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