I run on a different schedule than most people. My classes start at 11 a.m. so I don’t get up until at least 10, and bedtime is usually somewhere around 3 a.m. I realize this isn’t typical behavior, but am I the only one who thinks RIMAC Arena closing at 11 at night is ridiculous?
For far too many nights, I’ve heard the familiar sound of the announcements over the loudspeakers that the building is about to close, and far too many times, it has closed before I’m ready to leave. I’m not the only one. A lot of people get herded to the exits right along with me, or cut their workouts short because they know the close is coming. And why? To save some money in operating costs?
I don’t know about you, but of all the things I pay for at this school, RIMAC is probably the one I find most useful. It’s a great facility; there are a lot of recreation options and, at least for now, there’s always parking nearby. I’d be more than willing to pay a few extra dollars a quarter to keep RIMAC open longer. Twenty-four hours would be nice, but I’d settle for the building staying open until 2 a.m.
Isn’t this the time in our lives when our sleep schedules are the most outrageous? Don’t we need something to do at one in the morning when we just can’t study any more? Shouldn’t there be something to do on this ridiculously dead campus at night?
I realize that you have a potential safety concern if you have people coming onto campus or walking across campus late at night. That being said, there are systems already in place to give you a safe walk wherever you’d like to go, and La Jolla is so laughably low in crime that the risk is truly minimal.
I get tired of the talk about improving life at UCSD, the administration’s doublespeak and seeing how we’re moving toward A.S. elections, you’re about to hear much more of the same. When is someone going to do something practical for me and improve the life I’m really living here at UCSD?
We all know that the admissions packets lie. (After reading that sentence, the administration is really glad that this issue will be off newsstands by Admit Day.) We don’t have study groups out in the middle of the grass, we don’t hang out next to Sun God, and we certainly don’t jump off those rocks with our arms in the air like the pictures say because we’re so excited to be taking midterms every freakin’ week of the quarter.
I don’t care about research, I want nothing to do with an internship and as far as I’m concerned, you can flip a coin to decide what goes in the Price Center, but please leave RIMAC open a few more hours. Is that too much to ask?
