Over the past two weeks, I have noticed that along Nicholson Drive on the corner of Burbank Drive right across from Alex Box Stadium there have been a lot of trees and bushes being planted in the areas that are used for parking on football and baseball game days.
It looks like they even installed an irrigation system for this new landscaping.
In these times of financial crisis that the university is supposedly in, I think money can be better spent elsewhere rather than on landscaping which, when football season comes around, will be just parked on and destroyed.
This new landscaping looks nice but how is this getting paid for in a time of budget cuts and the university having to raise tuition and fees?
Is it me or could the money spent on new landscaping be better spent on more important things — like, say, retaining professors or maintaining the level of academic programs that are in danger of being on the chopping block.
I wonder sometimes about the things this university spends money on. Apparently landscaping is more important than academic programs. We might not have the best academic programs soon due to lack of funds but we will have the best landscaped overflow parking lots around.
Jason Myers, finance senior
 
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