Letters to the Editor
Shoddy equipment, second-class learning environment
I am a senior at the university and surprisingly had never had a lecture in the Macbride Auditorium. This semester I have two lectures there, and I’m sure many fellow students would agree that the audio and visual equipment is unacceptable. The syllabus for most classes, at least in part, focuses on distractions caused by unavoidable noise issues. All said, it is hard to focus on a lecture when it is not loud enough and sounds as if it were coming through a couple of blown speakers on a cheap TV set. Add to the clear sound a 6-foot rip across the projection screen, and it makes for a first-class learning environment. We, as students, pay thousands of dollars to attend this university and deserve a lot better.
Lance Gruhn
UI senior
Help a cyclist out
Recently, a few people I know have been pulled over for biking on the sidewalks downtown and informed me of the hefty fine that comes with breaking bicycling laws. Also, I found out that a good friend of mine had a collision with a car while on her bicycle and was sent to the hospital. In light of these events, I feel even more strongly that bikers should have every right to bike on sidewalks and be fined only should a collision happen. Just an observation, but cyclist-car collisions are potentially more dangerous than pedestrian-cyclist collisions. It’s basic physics. All I’m saying is that if we are going to be fined $80 a pop for biking on the sidewalks, then there should be bike lanes on all roads in Iowa City in an effort to prevent these accidents. Also, buy us poor college kids a good helmet.
Julie Jennings
UI sophomore
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