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...extend shuttles into the early morning, low late-night ridership recently led University Hall to consider scaling back service to 3 a.m. or 2 a.m. But faced with a volley of student e-mails imploring them to keep the shuttles running, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 last week wisely decided, in spite of the high cost, to maintain weekday late night shuttle service for the rest of the school year...
...first glance, Gross and McLoughlin seemed to have a reasonable justification for, at the very least, scaling back the weekday shuttles. Unlike the late-night weekend shuttles, whose ridership remains high well into the early morning, shuttles on Sunday through Thursday nights have been running nearly empty. According to McLoughlin, an average of one or two riders per day rode a weekday shuttle after 3 a.m. this semester, and the post-3 a.m. service was spared only because shuffling the drivers’ schedules would not have saved a substantial amount of money...
...shuttle’s low ridership) appears to be the administration’s primary factor in making decisions about the duration of nighttime shuttle service; the cost of running shuttles between 12:30 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. is about $35,000 per semester, according to McLoughlin. But student safety should be a far more important concern. Students who are schlepping from the River Houses to the Quad at 3:15 a.m. do not take the shuttle merely because of convenience; there are serious questions about the safety of walking alone on Garden Street at that hour...
...McLoughlin said Corker contributed more actively in the planning of events than first expected...
...When I brought Zac in, I thought what we needed was someone on the administrative side,” McLoughlin said. “I thought students were chomping at the bit to plan their own activities...