TO THE EDITOR:
As we continue to consider the balance between academics and athletics, I am disappointed by a policy that suggests football trumps research.
My students and postdocs often come into the lab on weekends to keep experiments going.
I gave up long ago on the idea that parking a car anywhere near campus was a hopeless dream on a football Saturday.
However, is it really necessary to prevent my lab members from riding their bikes to campus? The bike racks around the Genome Sciences Building have recently sprouted nasty signs threatening to remove any bikes parked there on football weekends.
Perhaps the Rams Club is offended by bicycles? It is simple gestures like this that remind me that sports still trumps academics, despite all the rhetoric to the contrary. Chancellor Folt — biology is your department — any chance we could change this policy?
Prof. Mark Peifer
Biology
