OUR VIEW: Muddy shoes or a shaky building?

There are just some things in life that – as new adults – you have to live with. These can vary from taking responsibility for our schoolwork to eating our vegetables even if we really don’t want to.

For any USU students who have to use the north end of campus, it now also includes trudging through the snow as they make their way around the fence around the oldest of the engineering buildings.

This should come as no surprise; our campus is constantly changing as old buildings give way to new and better ones.

The fact that a new engineering building is coming to campus is great. The old building was hardly used and hazardous. We’re excited to see that USU’s excellent engineering program will continue to grow and get better facilities.

Such growth is worth a little sacrifice and understanding from the student body.

However, it should also be worth a little planning from those involved.

Plans to construct a concrete walkway have been put off until the weather is better and the need has passed. If it’s too cold to create an alternate route, it should have been done earlier.

Laying some particleboard was a step in the right direction. However that same board is now covered in ice and is just as slippery as traipsing through the mud.

While Widtsoe Hall was being built, the dividing wall that kept people out of the construction site was placed so that the sidewalk from the Animal Science Building and Old Main could still be accessed by students.

While things could have been planned better, the time for such consideration seems to have passed. Now there is nothing for us to do but look forward to the new, state-of-the-art building that will be erected.

Except for the 50 percent of the student body who will graduate before the construction is done and the fences come down. We just have to grin and bear it.