JEREMY WECHSLER
New lights along College Row mean safer night
walks for Wesleyan students. |
New
Lights Along College Row
By Adam Hurter
Contributing Writer
Thanks to the efforts of the
Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) and Physical
Plant, students can now feel more secure while
strolling down College Row at night.
Within the next few weeks, the
collaboration between the WSA and Physical Plant
will result in the placement of 17 new
environmentally sound lights near North College.
"We’d had a lot of
feedback from students that poor lighting in the
North College area was a problem," said
Director of Facilities Operations Harry Kinne.
"I was in the Dean of Student Services
offices last year, and I worked with WSA members
[on the issue]."
Members of the Student Affairs
Committee (SAC), a subcommittee of the WSA, were
first approached by students last spring about
the need for additional lighting around North
College. The SAC then approached the
Administration with the idea, and the
installation of the lights began in June.
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According to Kinne, most of the lights
are already up but have yet to be turned on. The
remaining lights will be installed in the upcoming weeks.
"The lights are strategically
placed," Kinne said. "They extend from near the
campus center across the lawn all the way to the squash
courts."
According to Zach Sandler ’01, who
served on the SAC last year, the North College area was
the darkest place on campus at night. Sandler and the SAC
went out to the area last spring with Dean of Student
Services Mike Whaley and pointed out the problem.
"A lot of students had expressed
dissatisfaction with the deficiency of the lighting
there— there are a lot of spots there that are very
dark and quite unsafe," Sandler said.
In addition, the new lights are
environmentally friendly and specially chosen to prevent
light pollution. According to Kinne, the lights do not
interfere with the work done at Van Vleck Observatory
because they face directly down.
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