OUR VIEW: Our gripes: things that get our goat

Every now and then, we come up with some complaint, grievance or objection that doesn’t quite allow us to vent our full frustration in an Our View. Rather than let perfectly good beef go to waste, we decided to compile them into an editorial. A few of our ideas for what needs to change on campus follow:

Stop telling us not to walk on the grass. Maybe pathways should be built where students walk instead of building an increasingly intricate and useless network of sidewalks. Try that and see if perhaps people stop walking on the grass when the grass is not on a pathway that many people use. Then the university doesn’t have ugly grass or annoyed students.

Why are all of these people who ride their bikes, skateboards, long boards and wheelchairs (of all things) barreling through crowds of walking people and making them dodge out of the way? They elbow people in the back, clip them in the heel, and run over toes. They go swerving through crowds of people looking for the next open spot to get through. We don’t go running down the sidewalks with our arms out smacking people, and you shouldn’t drive your wheelchair over the speed limit. You getting to class in record time is not more important than the safety of those who walk.

Students aren’t allowed to take ice cream out of the Marketplace in the TSC. The rule is that no food may be removed, presumably so no one feeds their friends. But if a student tries to walk out with a half-eaten ice cream cone he or she may get chased down by infuriated Marketplace employees. This is ridiculous.

Last but not least (and the most difficult and least likely to change), there is only one entrance to the library. This huge building smack in the middle of campus with students and faculty approaching it from all directions only has one entrance. Logical? We beg to differ. It gets cold here, and walking around to the West side of the building doesn’t warm anyone up.