UO No Longer Allowed to go Postal
According to various news sources, the post office in the EMU will be shut down effective December 31st. This is going to be a large problem for international students, freshmen, students with disabilities for whom travel is no small task, students with no wheeled transport, and busy people in general.
Will there be a protest? Will there be an outcry? Unlikely, as no one at UO enjoys protesting things that have an actual impact on student’s day-to-day lives. Did the Phil Knight just gift the University a 41.7 million dollar moated glass brick in order for athletes to more effectively copy their homework? Yes. But, lets be real, no one really gives a shit about anything but sports at this school, so why would they spend on anything else?
A map with directions to the University’s new post office location will be posted whenever we can figure out where exactly the “Southside Station” is.
Betcha if those free-speech-free-thinking folks who attended the Pacifica Forum in the Walnut Room (across from the EMU post office) were still there, they’d be the first to stand up for all those who are now going to have a difficult time.
We’re talking about “international students, freshmen, students with disabilities for whom travel is no small task, students with no wheeled transport, and busy people in general,” and some that Sophie forgot to mention – all of whom were represented in one way or another by the people who showed up at the Walnut Room to listen and/or to speak their mind. And you wouldn’t have to call in DPS either…
“This is going to be a large problem for international students, freshmen, students with disabilities for whom travel is no small task, students with no wheeled transport…”
Speaking as a former international student, I reckon the damn foreigners will probably be able to cope with walking a few blocks to the Hirons or wherever.
(All those other folks you mention are screwed, however.)
Walking to Hirons ? Travelling Eastward from the Jack off center at 13th and Agate ? Good luck…..you had better be suicidal if you are going to walk by the arena construction clusterfuck . At least all those monster truck shows at the arena will be worth all this….the question remains: Will Puddles the Duck drive one of the monster Trucks ?