The tour should be conducted entirely in the rises. If you don't like it, you can go to Yale.
The way we talk about "safety" on this campus is ridiculously demonizing. I know kids (since graduated) who were scared to live on Vine Street. For example, the ride is a necessary transport system, but the way some talk about it as though its the only safe means of point-A-to-B is appalling. I know people who are scared to walk down to klekolo's coffee at midnight. And there's enough fault, IMHO, to go around... Students are definately the problem, Parents too, but the university takes a lot of the blame. It is impossible (i've tried) to run an event on campus open to non-students. P-Safe harasses non-students who walk through the campus at night. Filling in the stair case between the rises and t-square was only the physical embodiment of a very pervasive attitude among the administration. In my WESU dealings, it seems assumed by the administration (Doug) that student/Community-member interactions at the station are somehow adversarial. And the administration also seems to feel that by building the Green Street Arts Center, they can absolve themselves of these sins.
that was my tounge-in-cheek point. It's not that bad here. but if this isn't classy enough, and one equates classy with safe, then go live behind huge stone walls in a town thats much less safe.
The way we talk about "safety" on this campus is ridiculously demonizing. I know kids (since graduated) who were scared to live on Vine Street. For example, the ride is a necessary transport system, but the way some talk about it as though its the only safe means of point-A-to-B is appalling. I know people who are scared to walk down to klekolo's coffee at midnight. And there's enough fault, IMHO, to go around... Students are definately the problem, Parents too, but the university takes a lot of the blame. It is impossible (i've tried) to run an event on campus open to non-students. P-Safe harasses non-students who walk through the campus at night.
Filling in the stair case between the rises and t-square was only the physical embodiment of a very pervasive attitude among the administration. In my WESU dealings, it seems assumed by the administration (Doug) that student/Community-member interactions at the station are somehow adversarial.
And the administration also seems to feel that by building the Green Street Arts Center, they can absolve themselves of these sins.
It's ridiculous.
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