The Mount Oswald scheme will deliver 1,000 beds to the university and will include a new building with a 300-seat eating hall, as well as sports and music facilities.
Work: Early each morning a dozen volunteers douse the kerosene heaters in their tumble down shacks, dress, wash up, trudge to the eating hall to dine on toast, cereal, fruit juice and cheese.
The site will also enable CUNY Hunter to create consolidated science and nursing facilities, eliminating the need for duplicate eating halls, libraries and other facilities at the current 25th Street campus, which will ultimately be vacated, the school's president said.
'The eating halls are open 24 hours a day, training is tapered down and you've got time on your hands so you tend to be sitting around in the eating halls a bit longer.'
As "sites of working-class culture," some unions offered activities such as photography classes, and many had bars and eating halls. The role of union press has also declined to what Aronowitz considers a "mere public relations vehicle for the established leadership."
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