By: Anon

Anon
Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:44:53 +0000

OSU spending millions of dollars to “redesign” the lake to be no deeper than knee high? Check

OSU spending thousands of dollars draining the lake and refilling it after several weeks? Check

Until OSU began regulating the jump, problems didn’t exist. (NOTE: that does not mean accidents during the jump did not exist. It simply means accidents that occurred were NOT the responsibility of the University and completely the responsibility of the person injured) If someone broke something jumping in, it was their own damn fault. Then OSU added police, lighting, fencing, gates, wristbands, and everything else, and claimed it still wasn’t a sanctioned event.

I can go wander around aimlessly in the Olentangy River any day or night and no one can stop me, because there is no signage that says no swimming. The only signage against swimming urges people to stay away from the the water during heavy rains due to the overflow from the storm drains.

All this is boils down to OSU not believing a human is an adult until they are 21 and have a degree in their hands. I’ve been around the campus for 15 years now. The amount of changes both on campus as well as off campus show OSU is doing nothing but turning young adults into children and approaching college education as an extension of high school.

Aside from the listed draining of Mirror Lake, what else has happened? Even as late as 10 years ago, there were multiple campus dining options open past midnight every day of the week: Pizza at Drake (2AM), Burritos Noches (2AM), Mirror Lake Cafe (2AM), Marketplace (main open until 10PM, coffee shop until 2AM), and Woody’s (Old Union) and Sloopy’s (used to be open until 2AM on weekends). Campus recreational options have also dried up, with Jesse Ownes facilities closing before midnight now and more and more open spaces such as basketball courts being moved within controlled access areas like North Rec. The razing of High Street to replace local bars and restaurants with chain establishments and $1200 a month apartments is all a ploy to drive low income students away from the campus. The South Campus Gateway, once a very crowded getaway for students, has become nothing but offices for OSU’s gentrification program.

It’s not just the loss of Mirror Lake jump that has ruined the soul and psyche of the campus community… It’s a planned and militantly executed program to entrain students into a belief that they must be coddled and protected as children until they graduate college.