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.
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