Sidewalk cracks cause student woes

Infotainment by LUKE MORITZ

It has happened to all of us: your professor keeps you in class for the full length outlined in the syllabus.

How dare she! Even worse, you are getting out of your class in Science II and you have 10 minutes to get to Family and Food Science. When I am in this kind of hurry, I do not normally notice a lot of my surroundings. What I still do notice is the multitude of cracks that have made their home in the miles of sidewalk we have here on campus.

Holding the old grade-school adage to be true, I am convinced that there are a lot of mothers out there with broken backs. This is probably my biggest problem with the number of cracks in the sidewalks on campus.

Of course, the fact that it helps keep our campus from looking beautiful is also important to consider. And on top of hundreds of mothers having back problems every day, these cracked sidewalks can pose a serious safety risk.

The buzzword on campus lately has been budget cuts, and I guess we can partially, if not wholly, attribute the lack of crack repair to this public-school menace. However, having pristine sidewalks winding through the grassy plains of our campus should still be a priority.

When these cracks are repaired, it might also be a good idea to work on fixing the other large problem associated with the sidewalks on campus. With the rain coming down heavily over the last few weeks, you would have had to try very hard to miss the lakes forming everywhere.

Every time we see rainfalls, Fresno State turns into the wetlands that Ducks Unlimited is trying so hard to preserve. I doubt they have been to Fresno. This is not a good situation...the flooding will inevitably pit me against Ducks Unlimited because I am trying to preserve the sidewalks.

Everyone should think of sidewalks as one of our most precious resources. Sometimes, I like to imagine that our country has the most sidewalks in the entire world, and it saddens me to think that so many of them are in disrepair. Beautiful sidewalks should be one of the many things Americans can be proud of.

Even as a Canadian living here, I am proud to call these sidewalks my own. Spread the word! Let everyone know that we need immaculate sidewalks, and let us take care of the ones we have. Of course, that is just my opinion.