Objection! to the cartoon in the April 4 Northern Star. An anonymous Star artist—whose name appears to be crossed out—depicted a fat and lazy video player as the reason for the overcrowded buses.

The Northern Star is just like the Student Association telling people the nice, pat answer: students who complain should simply leave for their classes 15 minutes earlier instead of five or 10 in order to get a seat on an earlier bus, or to be first in line.

I think that’s a bunch of garbage. The bus system is supposed to serve the needs of students, not the other way around. We shouldn’t have to adjust our lives to accomodate the bus system timetable.

Does this cartoon mean that someone who’s simply demanding adequate bus service—a service they’ve paid for—is just fat and lazy?

The cartoon is insulting and generally misleading. To solve the issue, I’m presenting a proposal to the subcommittee for long-range planning of the SA Mass Transit Board.

The proposal, which regards the 4 bus route, calls for rescheduling so that two buses will arrive in the dorms instead of one at the peak times.

Just before the hour—when most students leave for class—the two 4L buses will arrive. Five minutes later, the 4R will come. Then there will be a 15 minute wait (for the off-peak times) for the two 4Ls to come back.

Five hundred students residing in the dorms signed a petition last month in favor of the proposal, and so far the SAMTB has been receptive to it.

However, due to the construction around the student center tower, my plan will not be feasibile until 1990. At that time, there will be enough room in the turn-around for the other 4 bus at the peak times I mentioned.

Until then, to ease the overcrowding as soon as possible, we’re striving to combine the 5/8 and 6 routes to give another bus to the 4 route. This is a lot better approach to a solution to the overcrowded buses than is The Northern Star flippantly blaming us, the students who live in the dorms.

ick Cibelli

junior

political science/public service