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Letters to the Editor
Kaushal Toprani
Issue date: 6/6/08 Section: Ed-Op
Dear Editor,
In my previous four springs at Drexel, around this time of year facilities and maintenance usually are busy working around campus to fix up before graduation. The grass around the Daskalakis Athletic Center is re-sodded, flowers are planted and small renovations would be made to clean up. It's the time of year I'm used to campus hitting its peak greenery level. I remember one year when USGA students worked day and night to finish up the shuttle stop shelter at 33rd and Market streets as a part of its Campus Improvement Initiative just to finish by graduation.
This year, the year my friends and I graduate, it looks like the complete opposite. In preparation for the College of Law naming ceremony, some greenery was added, a couple trees were cleared out to make room the massive white tents, and the University found drapes to hide the exposed steam pipe at the corner of 33rd and Market streets. After the white tents came down, the bulldozers came back out and massive digging began. Walkways are blocked off, bulldozers are parked in the DAC Quad, and orange construction fence is everywhere. With all the digging that's going on over there, you would think they were looking for oil.
I understand the University is expanding, making a Drexel degree worth more in the job market, and the cost of expansion is the construction mess. However, I hope the University takes into consideration that graduation is the capstone moment of our five year Drexel career. Our parents have been waiting for this moment to take pride in our achievements. We all know Drexel can pull it off. The transformation of the campus before the Democratic Debate at Drexel was miraculous.
So, I'll be hopeful that next week Drexel will dig deep and pull off another transformation from beast to beauty. They've already whipped up a new set of banners for graduating seniors. Let's hope the construction zone will be gone and enough of those drapes will be out to do the trick.
Kaushal Toprani
Editor Emeritus
Senior
Information Systems
In my previous four springs at Drexel, around this time of year facilities and maintenance usually are busy working around campus to fix up before graduation. The grass around the Daskalakis Athletic Center is re-sodded, flowers are planted and small renovations would be made to clean up. It's the time of year I'm used to campus hitting its peak greenery level. I remember one year when USGA students worked day and night to finish up the shuttle stop shelter at 33rd and Market streets as a part of its Campus Improvement Initiative just to finish by graduation.
This year, the year my friends and I graduate, it looks like the complete opposite. In preparation for the College of Law naming ceremony, some greenery was added, a couple trees were cleared out to make room the massive white tents, and the University found drapes to hide the exposed steam pipe at the corner of 33rd and Market streets. After the white tents came down, the bulldozers came back out and massive digging began. Walkways are blocked off, bulldozers are parked in the DAC Quad, and orange construction fence is everywhere. With all the digging that's going on over there, you would think they were looking for oil.
I understand the University is expanding, making a Drexel degree worth more in the job market, and the cost of expansion is the construction mess. However, I hope the University takes into consideration that graduation is the capstone moment of our five year Drexel career. Our parents have been waiting for this moment to take pride in our achievements. We all know Drexel can pull it off. The transformation of the campus before the Democratic Debate at Drexel was miraculous.
So, I'll be hopeful that next week Drexel will dig deep and pull off another transformation from beast to beauty. They've already whipped up a new set of banners for graduating seniors. Let's hope the construction zone will be gone and enough of those drapes will be out to do the trick.
Kaushal Toprani
Editor Emeritus
Senior
Information Systems
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