In the editorial that ran Monday, the Edit Board expressed discontent with the HelpVan not providing service to areas of Ames that are considered to be off-campus. However, we were unaware this inconvenience existed because of a lawsuit initiated in the ’90s that prevents the HelpVan from competing with private businesses that provide roadside assistance services, such as Locksmith.

It’s hard to not get frustrated and want to point fingers at someone when your car is stalled in the middle of Lincoln Way and University Boulevard and there’s no one around to provide immediate assistance. But we should have done our homework before we went around blaming campus services.

So we’re sorry, HelpVan, for losing our cool because of the January frosts that make our cars break down.