It seems to me Rick Russell, in his article on railroad improvements, has sought out and found whining, complaining cry-babies for his story.
I park every day in the Southern parking lot. And everyday I "scamper across the busy street" and "scale a hill or trudge through rock-encrusted trenches to reach the tracks."
I, however, have a better attitude. The fact that those walkways are only in 200-foot intervals and that, if I do not want to walk this far, I will have to "wobble over piles of rock" effects me not.
The student that Mr. Russell questioned about the condition of the tracks who stated, "The landscape looks like something out of a war zone," in my humble opinion needs to count his blessings.
He also stated he felt the need to wear "all terrain boots just to get to class."
If we were in a third-world counry and had to trudge through trenches and walk through war zones, I do not think we would be traveling to a university to get an education. Rather, I think we would be involved in war or in search of food.
I understand the tracks are an inconvenience to some students and a nightmare to drivers.
However, I think there needs to be a tremendous amount of introspection over the entire campus when we find nothing to complain about, save walking conditions to our beloved campus.
