If you are looking for C.A.U.S.E., you may have trouble finding it.Since last spring, the student organization has changed locations twotimes, each time moving into a smaller room.
“A lot of people have signed up for C.A.U.S.E.,” said junior IvoryEllison, co-president of the organization. “But they don’t know where weare. Everything still says we?re in the trailer.”
Since 1956, the organization has provided community service to the St.John?s community as well the metropolitan area.
C.A.U.S.E. was forced out of its trailer behind the U. C. last spring tomake room for the minor league baseball team, the Queens Kings.C.A.U.S.E. then moved into Conference Room C in the U.C., but had tomove to a room across the hall when the Kings needed a storage room. Itscurrent location is on the second floor of the U.C., a tiny office withhardly enough room for two couches and a desk, let alone more than 100members, volunteers, and the students that it serves.
“The trailer was comfortable, it was like our home,” Ellison said. “In alittle office like we have, it’s really hard to do anything.”
The space issue has not only cramped C.A.U.S.E.S.’s operation. also hasforced the organization to restructure its tutoring program and cancelsome programs, such as the Income Tax Assistance Program, which helpedstudents file their tax forms last year.
“A lot of people, outside and on campus, are really used to gettingtheir taxes done for free,” Ellison said. “But now they have to gosomewhere else and pay to have them done.”
With the Kings gone, the trailer behind the U.C. stands empty.Officials in the department of student activities would not comment onwhether or not that trailer would be used in the future.