SFU's Poor Facilities

      It's difficult to imagine the facilities of such an important university are so poor. Quantitatively, the space for both study and exercise is very limited for a university with over 22,000 full-time students and 13,000 part-time students. The silence study areas on campus can only be found on the fourth to sixth floors in the library where there are only less than 300 spots existing. Swimming pool has only half length of a standard one while soccer field has no seats for audience. The number of positions of the residence is about 1700, who occupy 7.7% of the full-time students. It is unreasonably low comparing with 80% or 90% on-campus accommodation rates of top universities in the world.
      The size of SFU's hardware facilities can only satisfy no more than 10,000 students which makes most of the students be not involved with the campus deeply. For those students come to school only for the lectures or even exam only, they come right before the class starts and leave after the class ends, the university to them is like a technical school.
      Qualitatively, the hardware facilities of SFU are inadequate as well. First of all, in about 50% of the area on campus, the students cannot detect the WIFI signal by their terminals. Secondly, the appearance of almost all buildings are so dirty, which makes the atmosphere of the campus lifeless. Some internal facilities like the showering equipment of the gym cannot even work properly--the water is cold even in the winter.
      There was a discussion about where the second medical school of BC should be built four years ago. The options are SFU or UBC (expanding). The only constraint for SFU is the limited space on campus. I can hardly understand why the university allowed the construction of the real estate continue on the eastside of burnaby campus.
      Honestly, the slogan, put forward by the new president, engaging the world, doesn't attract me at all. The administration, from my point of view, is doing very little or less effective thing to improve the quality of the university.