Injuries abound in harsh winter weather
Alison Eide, sophomore nursing major
This letter is in response to the Sept. 9 issue of The Collegian. The hot topic was parking and I, too, would like to express my concerns. I am a commuter and I agree, we do pay a lot of money for a parking spot we are not necessarily guaranteed.
More importantly, however, I am concerned with this winter’s snow removal plan. This past January I fell on an unshoveled sidewalk and my medical bills have yet to be paid by SDSU and their insurance company. If SDSU is not going to claim liability for injuries that could be prevented by simply shoveling snow off the sidewalks, the students and faculty are all going to have problems once the snow flies, especially during our transition to an “all-walking campus.”
I have asked Administration and Facilities and Services many questions, but my questions have all been ignored. Is SDSU going to clear commuter lots, as well as reserved and residential, right away? Are they going to scoop snow off all the sidewalks, especially those heavily traveled, in a timely manner? (I fell on a fairly heavily traveled sidewalk that had not been shoveled for one week.)
Is SDSU going to hire more employees in order to clear all the snow? Or is SDSU going to continue to pay attourney fees when the injured person(s) demand payment? What is SDSU’s plan?
Vampire comeback with recent books
Gay LeClair, SDSU student
The article written by Billie Kubat in the Sept. 16 issue was, for the most part, very well done.
There is one piece of Kubat’s work that is incorrect. “Interview with the Vampire”, by Anne Rice, did not start the vampire craze. It was a book called “Dracula” written by an Irish author named Bram Stoker. The book was published in 1897 and has not gone out of print since that time.
Many other vampire novels and movies were created using Stoker’s vampire character as the role model. And if you want to go back further than 1897, you can find plenty of books that deal with the subject of vampires.
Every culture in every part of the world has a legend or two about blood-drinkers, werewolves and witches too. Please do not misunderstand, Rice’s book is very good and well worth reading, but if you want to read the book that indeed started it all and if you want to “expand your literary horizons”, as Kubat encourages people to do in her story, read “Dracula”.
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