Letters to the Editor

Collegian editorial misplaces blame
This is regarding the fifth grade level editorial on the Psychology & Human Services building remodel.

It is interesting how simply you have destroyed the many years of hard work of many people on campus to obtain the funds to bring this much needed project to reality. We don’t get funds for project simply because we ask for it.

Maybe you should do some research about the facts rather than reading a report a half-hour before your deadline. Please check on state and federal guidelines, and stop by the Office of Environment Health & Safety on campus to get your facts and information.

This was real “X-file” reporting. We have better things to do than turn the lives of everyone on campus upside down to “address the health hazards.” If you want to look at a real health hazard, just look around the campus at people walking/driving and talking on cell phones.

This the opinion of one man who worked during the holidays to move everyone out of the building and who walks and works in many buildings similar to the PHS building.

Wish you the best. You have shown you have a place in the reporting world by stating half of the facts and having no real point in your editorial.

—Mehran Zarrinehteram
Facilities Project Supervisor
Plant Operations

Construction makes campus unsafe
It’s a great day in the realm of higher education when we can walk between metal fencing decorated with vibrant yellow “CAUTION” tape. Try walking under a multitude of dangling wires and exposed beams that open up to a corridor where we are greeted by a welder above our heads, sprinkling millions of live sparks that fall like rain in our path.

Oh, but if the wonderful men have time they will began a concerto of whistles and derogatory comments to signal their co-worker to stop for a moment as you pass by.

All this beauty to be able to consult with faculty and have to repeat yourself several times as the chorus of cranes, drills, saws and grinders overpowers your own voice.

What more can we wish for in our last semester at CSUF! President Welty, I am being sarcastic….How DARE YOU place the student body, faculty, staff and construction workers in such DANGER!!!

—Rosa Cobarruvias
Grad. student, social work