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Herald blind on snow
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by Letters to the Editor
Monday, February 11, 2008
You completely missed the mark with your editorial on Wednesday’s
snowstorm (“Just another day,” Feb. 7). It was smug, dismissive and completely
out of touch.
Describing the situation on campus as an “inconvenience”
for students with disabilities and commuters was the understatement of the
year. No one who uses a wheelchair or other mobility device could have gotten
around campus. Bus riders were stranded for hours as Metro service deteriorated
into chaos.
Indeed, in your lead story (“Students grumble, UW
eventually cancels classes,” Feb. 7) you mention that the University of
Wisconsin most recently closed Dec. 3, 1990 — the last time it snowed this much
in one day. Under identical circumstances, then-Chancellor Donna Shalala felt
it appropriate to cancel classes. What changed between then and now?
Edgewood, MATC and UW-Whitewater closed Wednesday. There
was no shortage of reports on how the storm had slowed down and would park
itself over the area. It was by any measure an extraordinary weather event.
The administration should not have opened campus. They
deserve to be criticized for that decision, and you deserve to be criticized
for supporting it.
Daniel Bush
La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison
dpbush@wisc.edu
Anonymous (February 11, 2008 @ 2:45am):
the cb told you so
Anonymous (February 11, 2008 @ 2:21pm):
Forward!, On Wisconsin!... unless it snows?
Anonymous (February 11, 2008 @ 5:57pm):
Snow and Ice and Slippery Commutes, Oh My!
Snow and Ice and Slippery Commutes, Oh My!
Did you shovel out your sidewalk... and the old lady's next door, Daniel? Did you check on her and get her groceries, like a good neighbor should in adverse times? Or were you too busy with Public Affairs and Public Complaining to perform your personal civic duty of shoveling a sidewalk and offering help to a disadvantaged soul?
Adversity - Embrace It!!! You have a long life of it ahead of you...... You might as well engrain the self-respecting habit of 'Deal With It Now' and save yourself from a pathetic life of whining, unmet expectations, and 'being a victim'.
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