Volume 67, Issue 3

While “easy come, easy go” seems to be the laissez-faire attitude Yeshiva administrators have adopted when it comes to the major cutbacks in both inter and intra campus shuttle services, students are not amused.  In following the service changes with considerable interest, these pages have reported significant student condemnation of the curtailed service, and we fully identify with our colleagues.

Presently, local runs between 10 AM and 4 PM were canned, and pick-ups past 1 AM are reliant upon the availability of a solitary 7-passenger minivan required to split its time between patrolling the campus and picking us up.  Small wonder then that some of us have been stranded for an hour before being serviced, while others disregarded the intimidating late-night loiterers and took to the streets.

Although the Office of Safety and Security swears by a the-NYPD-says-the-area-is-secure chorus, our fears still abound, especially considering the recent, down-the-block murder.  Despite Security’s token evaluations, we have spoken distinctly: Yeshiva’s leaving us to trek back from the subways unescorted in a threatening locale is simply an overall reflection of the respect this university accords us.  If Yeshiva aspires to provide sincere security as well as cater to its most fundamental block – the students – then changes must be made and in a spirit starkly different than the one typifying the late night local van pick-ups.      

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