TO THE EDITOR:
All pedestrian bridges are inherently evil! Cars go faster, and drivers become complacent. Should we convert South Road into Manning Drive? The pedestrian fatalities on this campus have occurred on Manning Drive, not South Road. This new bridge idea is completely different from previous plans for a bridge in terms of campus pedestrian functionality.
So the near-interchangeability of these two plans in the eyes of administrators confirms that the true agenda is to speed up vehicles by somehow corralling some students.
Random skate boarders and Facebook-checkers make our campus what it is: Do we want this part of our beautiful campus to become just another concrete canyon? How important is it that administrators can speed home at 5 p.m.? Or that National Science Foundation researchers from North Campus can hook up with National Institutes of Health principal researchers on South Campus without having to endure a little bit of solar radiation?
Bob Proctor
Professor
Mathematics
