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Push for a South Campus ‘Pit’ doesn’t make sense

Letter to the Editor

TO THE EDITOR:

 The Daily Tar Heel article “Campus moving South” (Sept. 9) outlined a valid but sophistic line of reasoning for hosting more events on South Campus.

Administrators argued that because the majority of students live on South Campus, events should be held there, presumably because it would make it easier for them to participate.

While this might apply to specific housing-related events, moving more general activities away from the Pit ignores two important factors: classes and Franklin Street. Both of these attract students during the day and the evening, and neither of them are going to move south any time soon.

No one wants to have to walk from classes to Ram’s Head Plaza in the middle of the day to look at various tables. And events in the evening held on South campus would both exclude North Campus residents and make it more difficult to balance campus activities with Franklin Street attractions.

Besides, walking halfway across campus isn’t going to kill any underclassmen, particularly with the specter of the “freshman 15.”


Alex Jakubsen
Sophomore
Undecided

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