2008 Woodie Awards
Letters to the editor
Issue date: 4/16/08 Section: Opinion
Old Main Lawn needs a better drainage system
Dear 5 percent tuition hike, and most specifically, the $2.00 per credit hour increases for additional facilities fees: I'm not sure if you have noticed but there has been a flowing stream of water from the Old Main Lawn steps, down busy Arkansas Avenue and feeding into Dickson Street.
The boggy hill, created six months ago, has proceeded to soil countless pairs of my sneakers.
And early on the morning of April 14, caused me to lose my footing and plant my face firmly into the hill that my father crossed so many times as a student nearly 30 years ago. As I relived this wonderful experience in my life with him, he never seemed to recall this problem.
In fact, I had never encountered this problem at the UA until this semester. It seems as if the university might want to disavow that there is a problem.
And I guess that is rightly so. I'm sure with the large number of university vehicles driving down Arkansas Avenue, splashing the water back onto the sidewalks, the maintenance crew who seems to have no trouble burying their weed-eaters into sludge and with the parking enforcement employees ticketing away, surely someone would have recognized this problem and handled it accordingly.
I'm sure with the $36 facilities fee that the university will collect from me next semester; they will have no trouble fixing one measly pipe.
I mean, the UA has had no trouble building David Gearhart a lovely new mansion on a hill with a pristine vista of our 50-yard line, tucked safely far and away from the waterlogged marsh that has become Arkansas Avenue.
Surely, prospective students love gingerly tiptoeing from one spot of solid ground to the next to begin their campus tours.
Lee Camp
Sophomore
Marketing Management
Dear 5 percent tuition hike, and most specifically, the $2.00 per credit hour increases for additional facilities fees: I'm not sure if you have noticed but there has been a flowing stream of water from the Old Main Lawn steps, down busy Arkansas Avenue and feeding into Dickson Street.
The boggy hill, created six months ago, has proceeded to soil countless pairs of my sneakers.
And early on the morning of April 14, caused me to lose my footing and plant my face firmly into the hill that my father crossed so many times as a student nearly 30 years ago. As I relived this wonderful experience in my life with him, he never seemed to recall this problem.
In fact, I had never encountered this problem at the UA until this semester. It seems as if the university might want to disavow that there is a problem.
And I guess that is rightly so. I'm sure with the large number of university vehicles driving down Arkansas Avenue, splashing the water back onto the sidewalks, the maintenance crew who seems to have no trouble burying their weed-eaters into sludge and with the parking enforcement employees ticketing away, surely someone would have recognized this problem and handled it accordingly.
I'm sure with the $36 facilities fee that the university will collect from me next semester; they will have no trouble fixing one measly pipe.
I mean, the UA has had no trouble building David Gearhart a lovely new mansion on a hill with a pristine vista of our 50-yard line, tucked safely far and away from the waterlogged marsh that has become Arkansas Avenue.
Surely, prospective students love gingerly tiptoeing from one spot of solid ground to the next to begin their campus tours.
Lee Camp
Sophomore
Marketing Management
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