Dear Editor:
I am writing in response to Chancellor Wendler's and the Board of Trustees repeated attempts to change the image of SIU. The board has spent countless dollars on giving SIU this great new image. They are trying to get rid of the party school black eye that SIU has carried for 30 years. Chancellor, take a look around. Don't you think there are bigger problems around this place? The campus has become embarrassing. The buildings are falling down and the ones that are not falling down are so out of style you wish they would. I think best of all is the grass all around campus (it actually has dandelions growing out of it). The grass looks so bad I cannot believe that people can still call the campus pretty.
Instead of paying someone $300,000 to change our party school image, why don't we invest some of that money in a lawn mower, some fertilizer, or even better yet, we could update some of the buildings around here. I think the city and SIU should go back to the way things were. Open up the Strip, allow Carbondale Crawl, and let this town be the way it was. Maybe if you do this chancellor, the school and the town would not look so run down. Maybe we could actually make this place look a little better; enrollment might go back up.
Joseph J. Battistoni
freshman, political science
Published on 11/17/05; 12:24:44 PM
