Independent Perspective News

Translation by Carolina Friszman.

To the limit. The School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) is dangerously approaching a space collapse: next Monday, when the second term begins, 1394 students coming from the CBC will add to more than 25.000 who have already been studying there, crammed in the two buildings of the School and in nine classrooms borrowed from others.

Less than a week to go, and there are still five classes of about 70 students each that have no room to work at all.

Hurried by the prediction that the growth in the registration will not stop next year, the School authorities have decided to give a new impulse to the demands they have been struggling for since the beginning of the year, when they took over the administration.

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During the last five years, the number of students of Social Sciences at the UBA grew a 104%, while the summoning of professors -mostly ad honorem- grew a 54% and the budget, only a 7%.

Against all statistics, the number of new students in the second term overcome the number of those who started in the first half of the year, so the authorities were forced to once more ask for classrooms they can borrow from neighbor schools, such as Medicine, Economics, Pharmacology, one of the CBS seats and Carlos Pellegrini High School.

"We do not want to resort to patch-solutions anymore. Our goal is to build an authentic school, and that does not only mean more classrooms, but a building that contains spaces for professors and students and a good library", said Schuster, surrounded by representatives of the professors, the personnel and the students.