I’m very disappointed that IRHA is even considering making Towers residents pay for the brown route, especially now that it is granting $125,000 for a bus shelter for the commuter lot.

This is a lot for a bus shelter when you can buy a new house for the same price.

The brown route should be provided free of charge for the students living at Towers.

Old and new RCA have a bus service provided to them free of charge on the orange route, so Towers would be the only hall to pay for transportation to campus, and they are the only off-campus residence halls.

Many students at Towers did not choose to live there. This is where the university stuck them.

So why should they be punished when it wasn’t even their choice to live there?

I’ve heard other opinions on the subject, like “the residence halls are using YOUR money to pay for the Towers students bus passes,” and I’d like to tell these people that they should look at the other side.

Would YOU want to pay out more money to the university for a service that everyone else living in the residence halls is getting for free?

I’d rather see my money going to the brown route than to commuters.

I feel for those who have to wait 20 minutes in the cold for a bus, but I still can’t imagine why they need to spend $125,000 on a bus shelter.

Take the $125,000 and use half of it to supply a bus to the students at Towers and use the rest to build a bus shelter for the students who commute.

Briony M. Lachinski

Sophomore

Microbiology