OUR VIEW: Step lightly, avoid cost, time

The sun is shining, the air is warmer and spring is in the air. The ice and snow are quickly becoming memories.

However, with the melting snow comes squishy, vulnerable grass all over campus. Already, the paths that were once iced over across the Quad are muddy “cow trails” (as many of the men and women who care for Utah State University’s grounds call them).

Additionally, areas near the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion just west of the Taggart Student Center suffer annually from students and faculty members taking short cuts to save a measly 10-or-so paces.

Nobody is in such a hurry that a few extra steps will make a big enough difference to justify destroying expensive-to-replace grass.

Besides costliness, time also becomes an issue for replacing destroyed grass. With graduation falling on the first weekend of May, grounds crews are working tirelessly to ensure visitors are presented with the beautiful campus the university is well known for. This is difficult enough considering all the flowers and plants that must be planted and the raking, sweeping and clearing of winter debris that must be done in addition to setting up graduation weekend facilitations.

As students and faculty members, a few steps more to get to paved sidewalks are not too much to ask.