Students marched from Community Hall to Bexell Hall on Thursday to propose increased resources and transparency regarding funding selections on behalf of the Music Department of Oregon State University.
Fliers have been determined to remain in Community Hall, which houses the tuning branch, criticizing the lack of stability and the song application’s modern-day state. According to Baylor Turnbow, a track essential and an organizer of the rally, the occasion was prompted by frequent losses of music faculty contributors, inadequate resources, and an old curriculum but ultimately spurred by the lack of the director of bands, Christopher Chapman, Ph.D. The students rallying played “We’re Not Gonna Take It” on their gadgets and chanted, calling for the college to make music education extra of a concern and growth investment transparency.
“The declaration that Dr. Christopher Chapman, our modern-day director, is leaving was made three months in the past, and the placement continues to be now not open for candidates, and alas, the position will in all likelihood now not be granted tenure track,” Turnbow stated via email. “We marched these days particularly to deal with those issues in cohesion to suggest for a director of bands position with tenure tune and also on behalf of all of our professors who’ve to fear approximately dropping their jobs every year.”
Janie Anderson, a fourth-12 months track fundamental, Community Hall, the tune building, is administered down, with inadequate exercise rooms that aren’t soundproofed. Anderson said the administration no longer supports the music program.
“We will stand in the front of your workplace till you realize that the tune department is a part of your department,” Anderson said. “We have some of the first-class schools inside the kingdom here; however, I’m sure they all are bored with being pushed down by management. Music isn’t just the students in this building. It’s everybody.”
Turnbow said in addition to inadequate exercise rooms, there are broken chairs in the recital hall, no longer sufficient song stands to go around, and the home windows regularly will not stay open, rendering fireplace escapes inaccessible.
“Issues relating such things as fire escapes are the most effective problems that get resolved in our department because they’re emergent,” Turnbow stated. “We rallied nowadays because our department is in an emergent kingdom. I like our centers and always attended to them; we can no longer feature theme.”
Abby Cohen, a first-year music student, said she found what’s going on at the branch unsettling.
“I want to fight for my rights as a track pupil. We are just as qualified and on the equal levels as everybody else at this school,” Cohen stated. “It’s just unhappy to me to see how we are tested, and there’s inequality with the scholars at such a lot of exclusive universities. I suppose that for what we can do, protesting is making sure we’ve got a voice, and I want to be heard.”
