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February 19, 1999
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Volume 6, Number 11 |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORSacrificing land can harm studentsThe human cost of sacrificing the experimental lands adjacent to the core campus [see Jan. 8/99 and Feb. 5/99 OCN] has barely been mentioned in previous presentations of On Campus News. Within the last six months, a young scientist has been paralyzed and a graduate student killed while traveling to or from their off-campus research units. What's the value of human life in the balance of benefits from moving land laboratories to distant sites? The present location of the beef research unit at the north end of Preston Avenue is the maximum distance that we can transport students within a normal laboratory period. What's the educational cost of moving more agricultural laboratories beyond the reach of undergraduate students? The horrendous cost, in human terms, of the last six months does not reflect the average for the previous 20 years, but senior administrators and the Board of Governors must remember that a decision to bulldoze land is a permanent one. Lessening a five-year or a 20-year financial problem by sacrificing land will produce inevitable human costs, not for a brief 20 years, but for as long as the University exists.
- Iain Christison
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