Letters to the editor

Towers laundry a disgrace

I live in Litchfield Tower B and am so pleased at its… Towers laundry a disgrace

I live in Litchfield Tower B and am so pleased at its renovations. We actually have lights that work, mirrors that show more than just our faces and floor space! Our desks fit a monitor and printer, and the carpet hasn’t been stained by the thousands that lived in our room before us.

That being said, every Pitt student by now has also noticed the beautiful and increasingly sparkling Towers lobby. Some upperclassmen I know said they didn’t even recognize the place since it was “de-ghetto-fied.” Regardless, something has not been brought to modern day living standards (other than Towers A and C).

Towers laundry is a disgrace. Finding a washer is fine, but getting a dryer is a debacle. The problem is that some of them don’t spin when you spend your four quarters; this means clean clothes also happen to be warm and damp after spending $2 of hard earned summer cash. Now let’s say you fight off the eight other people vying for a dryer, you spend your $1, watch those clothes spin for 48 precious minutes, and realize no heat has been kissing your clothes, just the cold ceramic of the inside of that automatic clothesline. Yeah, it does suck.

I have lost almost $10 to these dryers and I’ve only been washing my clothes here at Pitt for a month and half.

I knew doing laundry in college was going to be a pain, but a crap-shoot?

Come On!

Brent A. Healy

CAS freshman

Focus on streetlights misplaced

I find it absolutely appalling that the entire debate and call for action surrounding the recent assault on University property has focused on the three streetlights that were neglected and not functioning.

The facts as reported were that this man had a gun. The light or lack thereof wasn’t really a concern for him, as it seems that the two women got a good enough look to produce sketches of him. And as much as it saddens me to say this, it’s still true – that crime, unless there are very specific details that are not being revealed to the general public, could not have been prevented by three streetlights. It sucks, but it’s true.

Of all the coverage I’ve seen, only J. Elizabeth Strohm has even come close to touching on anything that could be helpful. Scolding the University for not repairing streetlights is not crime-preventative; asking for more and better-maintained emergency phones is a great start.

Please don’t think me unsympathetic; I feel for those two women, and it sickens me that two women can’t walk around (on campus or off) at night without the threat of violence lurking at every turn. It’s just that focusing on the streetlights is not going to help someone against a man with a gun.

Emily Weise

CAS senior