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...street from Johnston Gate to complain to the shuttle service, the shuttle might come and leave me behind. If I call Harvard's escort service, the controller will tell me to take the shuttle, or that there will be an hour's wait for the escort. So I walk home, cursing the shuttle powers-that-be, glancing behind me at two-minute intervals to make sure I'm not being followed by would-be rapists, and arriving at Currier House 15 minutes later cold, scared and angry...
...year of fuming in silence, I've started calling the shuttle service every time a shuttle doesn't arrive. The last time I did that. I had been waiting at the Science Center ten minutes after an evening shuttle was scheduled to come. When it didn't. I walked home and called the shuttle service. The operator told me that the driver had reported he had been two minutes late--I had waited for 10 and then decided to walk...
Aside from the safety concerns--walking down Garden St. by myself at midnight doesn't exactly make me feel secure--"lost shuttles" are a massive waste of everyone else's time. If I know the shuttle won't come, at least I can make alternate plans. But if I wait ten minutes after the shuttle is supposed to come and then walk home, that's nearly a half hour of my time down the drain. Similarly, I could call the revamped SafetyWalk, but after waiting for an absentee shuttle. I just don't have time to wait anymore...
This year, many administrators are trekking up to the Quad once a week for Administrative Board meetings, held for the first time in Hilles instead of in the soon-to-be-renovated Union. I'm glad they have to walk up to the Quad, because it gives them a taste of what we endure day after day. I'll be even gladder when it gets too cold or snowy to walk comfortably and they must try out the shuttles themselves. I'd be gladder still if they had to wait outside the dark Science Center for shuttles...
Capitalism is a wonderful thing when you are at the top of the heap. It is hard to argue with the good of entrepreneurial business and the benefits of Social Darwinism while sitting in a common room in Grays Hall, with all the comforts imaginable available through a short walk or quick e-mail. A Harvard student's everyday problems might amount to little more than deciding how he or she is going to fit in doing the laundry between dinner, "Friends" and writing a paper. Sometimes it is easy to blow our problems out of proportion, but it takes...