Moving More Cars Off Campus
This brief USA Today article by Gwen Purdom uses few words to summarize and share a number of ways campuses are planning to get students on foot or onto two wheels, for health and energy reasons:
This fall, Ripon College in Ripon, Wis., is offering freshmen free mountain bikes, helmets and locks in exchange for a promise not to bring a car to campus. The $300-per-student cost is funded by private donations.The college's president, David Joyce, says the project was meant to avoid building a parking garage, but its side effects are beneficial: less pollution, more exercise and savings on gas.
The timing was right, Joyce says: "We were either extremely brilliant or extremely lucky."
Labels: Association for the Advancement of Sustainability In Higher Education, climate change, parking, transportation
posted by Terry Calhoun at
1:13 PM
1 Comments:
Today, it seems like many colleges and universities are denying students the right to own cars during the freshmen year. It is a shame because they ought to be exploring their college environment: soaking in their new surroundings.
It also is a shame that freshman are required to live on campus at virtually all colleges.
Why are colleges so strict now? Why do they have the right to demand so much from the students? They are paying them!
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