The Collegian Weekly
Appreciating the finer things, like grass
Issue date: 9/11/08 Section: Opinion
Donors and students pay millions of dollars for Hillsdale College's continued existence, and it shows. President Larry Arnn, like George Roche III before him, runs around the globe with his External Affairs team, shaking hands and kissing babies for a cause we think better than most politicians': bettering our campus.
He proves it with more than money. Rumor has it Arnn saw the renovated Quad still covered with dirt the Thursday before school started and insisted on implanted sod. Workers inlaid the Quad in green the next morning.
Now, if only we could actually play frisbee on it ...
Yeah, Mauck Hall can hardly bear more patching and The Suites' halls are thin and tinny, but compare those problems to campus as a whole. Beyond buildings - Grewcock Student Union, Lane and Kendall halls, Howard Music Hall - stroll into the Arboretum or even around our (ridiculously circulatory) campus sidewalks. It's beautiful here.
Add that to knowing our maintenance department and employees work long and lean even more than before with the student union's added upkeep.
That's impressive, and deserves thanks.
If you have ever visited another university, especially state schools, you know that our dorms, as small and sweaty as they seem compared to the bedroom Mom cleans for you at home, are some of the best anywhere. Dorms often look like inner-city projects: small, decrepit, dirty. Ours, by comparison, are home.
And college officials have already begun planning major residence renovations. That's good. Mauck needs it.
False fire alarms there and in Galloway Hall only cost the college money that we think they spend better on us, anyway.
He proves it with more than money. Rumor has it Arnn saw the renovated Quad still covered with dirt the Thursday before school started and insisted on implanted sod. Workers inlaid the Quad in green the next morning.
Now, if only we could actually play frisbee on it ...
Yeah, Mauck Hall can hardly bear more patching and The Suites' halls are thin and tinny, but compare those problems to campus as a whole. Beyond buildings - Grewcock Student Union, Lane and Kendall halls, Howard Music Hall - stroll into the Arboretum or even around our (ridiculously circulatory) campus sidewalks. It's beautiful here.
Add that to knowing our maintenance department and employees work long and lean even more than before with the student union's added upkeep.
That's impressive, and deserves thanks.
If you have ever visited another university, especially state schools, you know that our dorms, as small and sweaty as they seem compared to the bedroom Mom cleans for you at home, are some of the best anywhere. Dorms often look like inner-city projects: small, decrepit, dirty. Ours, by comparison, are home.
And college officials have already begun planning major residence renovations. That's good. Mauck needs it.
False fire alarms there and in Galloway Hall only cost the college money that we think they spend better on us, anyway.
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