Student-funded bus loses two route stops

Like any game of dominoes, the construction of the Doudna Fine Arts building pushes other dominoes to fall. It affects students and other buildings and leaves classes within the building homeless, causing one tricky domino, the shuttle bus, to fall as well.

Particularly pressing is the funding of the shuttle bus.

The shuttle bus is student funded with each student paying a $10.90 per semester fee. This year’s revised schedule has three stops cut out, limiting those paying students in its use to get to class or off campus.

Coleman Hall, McAfee Gymnasium and 7th Street and Polk Avenue stops were cut; however, the schedule is still reflectant of student needs, said Ronnie Deedrick, student vice president for academic affairs, Friday.

“Everyone pays for the bus so everyone should get to use it,” he said. “I think the schedule reflects that.”

Though 11 classes are being housed in McAfee Gymnasium this year, its stop was cut because it held the least ridership of the previous year.

Ridership has increased 1,000 students in a year, but, Deedrick said, students will still be well accommodated with the stops.

“I’m paying too, you just have to walk in their shoes, keep everyone in mind,” he said.