Borough Council vs UPUA: Lights on Garner

Once again, the State Borough Council and UPUA do not see eye to eye. UPUA is opposing a borough council plan that would turn off the pedestrian lights for the next 6 months as a trial and use us students as guinea pigs.

UPUA Chief of Staff Matthew Smith had this to say regarding the turning off of lights.

The lights are valuable to students,” he said. “We want to be included in the dialogue on this issue.”

He is right. Students should be allowed to bring up their concerns about whether or not the lights are turned out. According to Tom Fountaine (the Borough Manager), crime has actually risen since the installation of lights. Also, council member Theresa Lafer claims that the lights flood into residents’ homes and cause students to trespass.

According to Lafer:

“The lights are bringing students into the backyards of citizens”

Thankfully, the option to turn all the lights off was overturned. I suppose the danger of students going into the backyard of citizens was overshadowed by the prospect of an increase in assault. Now the borough can get back to working on more important matters – renaming buildings and streets in honor of local and national figures.

Do you agree with this? What if we replaced all of the street lights with the Bat Signal?

pszu

it just seems like the borough is filled of these “officials” who have never taken foot out of state college and experienced what real world cities are actually like.
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horns.aiff

Hmm,

A pathway that typically leads to drunken parties become dark.

The path is well known for walks of shame and late night sloshed pedestrian travel.

And you want to turn the lights off? I thought you people read the news with armed robberies going on lately.

Wait for someone to be mugged and have a long article/memoriam in the Collegian about it and then there will be a change of heart. If you don’t think turning the lights off will increase assaults on the path, you’ve been drinking Kool Aid.
Matt

Its true this does affect the PSU students but for a local governement like the Borough Council untill you actually live here and pay taxes and vote in their elections they will treat the students as second class citizens, they view us as not careing enough to make a big wave and bank on the fact that students are only here for a few years and then move on.
horns.aiff

The only way the borough, university, or IFC seems to change policy is when students start turning up maimed or dead on their doorstep
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