Dear Editors,
I honestly dislike spam e-mails as much as the next person. I have a personal e-mail that has thousands of unread e-mails. It’s with carbon-tax apathy that I know these unread notifications burden a system somewhere free of actual environmental regulation. I see most of them though. As a child of the internet age, despite the utilization of a flip-phone in recent months as an experiment of sorts, I still am burdened with them.
When I saw the roll out of the QUAlerts emergency response notification system grace my inbox on Wednesday, I thought it was time to discuss some of the issues that Queen’s seems to be having—and I don’t mean to discuss the financial issues which are plaguing the Smith-Bader School of Momentous Magnitude—as I have been assured that someone studying business here must know.
But I do have one question for the rest of you: Where are the blue safety lights at An Clachan Complex? I can already hear the response: it’s on the list of things to do. By a show of hands, can anyone tell me what the blue lights on campus mean? How far are you from safety on campus? Can anyone tell me if graduate students are considered students?
I know a lot of grad students are international students and therefore the safety of these students and their families may not be as high of a priority to the school. But the istration can at least pretend with us here—they already have their tuition money and these students also deserve the safety afforded to the rest of our student body.
It’s my belief that all students deserve safety during their education here at our school. I will simplify my question: Do all Queen’s students deserve safety? As I watched them tear out the speed bumps at the building where the children ride their bikes at An Clachan I realized the University deserves to be shamed. These lights should have been built when the rest of the lights on campus were. For now, I’m outside walking in the dark, listening to the children scream in the night wondering where the blue lights are at An Clachan.
Sincerely,
Colby Latocha
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