By CORINNE TYNAN
STAFF WRITER
After months of brutal snowstorms, Rutgers students say that the snow affected their daily lives.
Kristen Ortiz, a sophomore at Rutgers University, said the snow really put a damper on everything.
“Because I live here at school, the snow was a ridiculous problem, mostly because it affected Rutgers transportation so much, and that’s my only way of getting around,” she says.
Most students say the thing the snow mostly affected was their classes.
“The late snow and ice removal put serious timing troubles on my daily classes, and too many cancellations in my classes,” she says, “I’ve noticed the classes I’ve missed are now affecting the exams that I am taking this week for the worse.”
Rutgers students say that the lack of snow removal was the worst part of the whole ordeal.
Ortiz said Rutgers put a lot of emphasis on removing the snow, but the fact that the ice was not dealt with made it just as dangerous to travel three to four days after the snow fell.
“I just don’t understand why Rutgers didn’t make it a priority to put salt down on all the walks, said Nicolette Bronisevsky, a transfer student.
“It feels like they put it down once and then they thought they were done. I couldn’t even tell you how many times I slipped and almost fell.” Bronisevsky said.
She said she has a parking pass on Livingston Campus and but it was difficult for her to get her car out of the parking lot.
“Rutgers had attempted to plow the lot, but while they did it, they were just pushing the snow to cover the cars that were still in the lot,” she says, “It took me two hours to dig out my car!”
A commuter student, Kanika Chopra, says it was devastating commuting through the snow. She said Rutgers merely moved the snow from the road to parking spots, making it that much more difficult for her to find parking.
“I spent more time in traffic and trying to find parking then I did in class.” Chopra says. “It felt like with all the trouble that the snow caused me, it wasn’t even worth the effort to go to class.” |
