MSU employee Charlotte Wilks knows firsthand that railroad crossings can be dangerous.
She once saw a fellow employee climb between the cars of a stopped train near her laboratory in the Life Sciences Building. The employee’s daughter had gotten sick while in day care on the other side of the tracks.
She was just desperate to get to her daughter, Wilks said.
This story is all The State News could come up with as evidence of the necessity of the bridge being built on Farm Lane.
Now, an estimated $35 million later, we have a nearly complete “Bridge to the Future” that’s supposed to bring us a safer tomorrow.
Really, MSU?
The university concerns itself with things like building a completely unnecessary bridge that costs millions, paying $150,000 for an artist to create a 26-foot sculpture to promote art and removing all phone landlines from every residence hall on campus. Yet, nearly every day, money seems to be the No. 1 concern.
We are in a recession and the state is cutting university funding. I get it.
But in our apparent struggle for cash, where do these millions of dollars come from for all of these frivolous things that for some reason MSU finds important?
I can’t for the life of me figure this out.
Nor can I figure out why, when the state doesn’t provide us with as much funding, MSU only gives us two options: A huge percent increase in tuition or a huge number of layoffs.
How about adjusting the university’s budget and cutting some of those expenses? Where’s that option?
Oh wait, I forgot. We need those huge flat-screen televisions outside the cafeteria so I can watch TV while I wait in line to get my card swiped.
Emme Miller
zoology senior
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