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With access comes responsibility
Issue date: 10/16/03 Section: Editorial/Opinion
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10/16/03 - To the Cigar,
After reading your editorial entitled "Better student access to Ryan Center needed" on Oct. 9, I found myself pondering your final statement: "...it is difficult for the students and the university community to consider [the Ryan Center] our own, and part of our community."
Obviously I don't know the details, but why would the decision be made not to keep the Ryan Center as part of URI's community, for the use of the students? Could anyone truly want the students to feel as though "we have no grasp on [the Ryan Center]?" Why would they want to give the impression that the building is not "really affiliated with the university at all?" What could the management of the Ryan Center possibly want with large sums of money for use of the center? It's not like there's going to be a riot after a sporting event and they'll need the money for damages incurred by the students. What are we going to do? Burn benches and garbage cans? Break windows? Try to rip out a goal post?
Come on, it's not as if someone here is going to go outside after a game and roll a car or something. The students should have greater free (ab)use of the Ryan Center and all of the administrative offices for that matter. Maybe URI vehicles, too.
By the way, URI should consider buying only wooden benches and garbage bins. The plastic ones give off toxic fumes.
Jon Mitchell
After reading your editorial entitled "Better student access to Ryan Center needed" on Oct. 9, I found myself pondering your final statement: "...it is difficult for the students and the university community to consider [the Ryan Center] our own, and part of our community."
Obviously I don't know the details, but why would the decision be made not to keep the Ryan Center as part of URI's community, for the use of the students? Could anyone truly want the students to feel as though "we have no grasp on [the Ryan Center]?" Why would they want to give the impression that the building is not "really affiliated with the university at all?" What could the management of the Ryan Center possibly want with large sums of money for use of the center? It's not like there's going to be a riot after a sporting event and they'll need the money for damages incurred by the students. What are we going to do? Burn benches and garbage cans? Break windows? Try to rip out a goal post?
Come on, it's not as if someone here is going to go outside after a game and roll a car or something. The students should have greater free (ab)use of the Ryan Center and all of the administrative offices for that matter. Maybe URI vehicles, too.
By the way, URI should consider buying only wooden benches and garbage bins. The plastic ones give off toxic fumes.
Jon Mitchell
