To: Michael K. Young, Texas A&M president

Do not Move Student Services at Texas A&M

The demolition of Cain Hall has led to essential services such as Student Counseling and Student Disability to be moved to a remote location. This has a negative effect on the mental and physical health of the students who use these services.

Why is this important?

Texas A&M is changing, and sometimes those changes happen too quickly. Such is the case with Cain Hall. Moving student services to West Campus creates considerable distance between students and the help many of them need to successfully matriculate through A&M. Students in crisis can't get a counselor without travel; physically disabled students must travel on buses to reach accommodations.

This means that our more vulnerable populations are at risk. And we ask President Young to refrain from moving these offices until new on-campus accommodations are built or found.