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Distance from the Harvard Quad to Lamont Library, as the crow flies. Too far for Harvard students.
Students claim that their safety will be at issue when the shuttle bus service, which currently runs until 3:45 a.m., stops running at 1:30 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday.
Harvard government professor Steven R. Levitsky believes that the complaints were motivated by a different factor. "Students need to walk the frickin’ seven minutes from the Quad to the Yard," he told the Crimson, adding, "Lazy students."
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OK, former Quadling checking in. I always walked during daylight hours, unless I had a deadline and needed those 7 minutes to add random adjectives to my paper in order to hit the page requirement.
BUT. Garden Street is not well-lit at night, there have been muggings there, and there is a history of violent crime in adjecent Cambridge Common. I can totally understand the concern about cutting evening service.
oh, tell it to the emersonians walking home at night near the (okay, former) combat zone!
As a non-student living in Central Square, I'd pissed if I were a student and this service was taken away from me. There's tons of street crime between central and harvard, as well as around harvard itself. Yeah, I know it's a city and all, with everything that goes along with that, but it seems like a pretty valid service with what goes on in the area. If I were female and walking alone late, I'd probably be really nervous.
I'd imagine that Levitsky has never experienced being a young woman walking alone at night.
Makes as much sense as a bunch of middle-aged men making decisions about womens' reproductive health.
Allow me to introduce you to Harvard's evening van service.
Not using the evening van for safety makes about as much sense as voting for Hitler.
People have been mugged while waiting for the evening van to get to them, since it doesn't have a set schedule like the shuttle, and it doesn't necessarily pick people up in well-lit areas.
Yes, but there is likely to be far LESS crime if there are lots of people walking around at night...maybe they should lobby for better campus police and lighting?
Oh wait, people are concerned about muggings at 2:30 a.m.
Ok. But I still don't think you're getting your shuttle back.
Isn't walking through the city at night a regular occurrence for, like, everyone who lives in a city? As is street crime? To Levitsky's description of Harvard students as "lazy" let us add "unable to comprehend encountering basic realities of non-privileged life."
i would hope no one is surprised by that addition.
Huh. Thanks a lot.
Considering I once had a freaking forest(!) between where I lived and either of the main parts of campus*, and personally know someone who was held up at knifepoint in said forest, I can both sympathize and say, "Harvard kids, this happens everywhere."
* Huge contributing factor in people not wanting to go to our parties, incidentally. Haha.