For many Americans, the Holocaust seems like ancient history. They lack the personal connection that many Jewish families have to the horrible tragedy. At the same time there are Americans living today who have experienced the Holocaust first-hand. They managed to hide out in Nazi Germany until they could escape, or they miraculously survived the concentration camps. These people made it to American soil where they felt solace, a place that proclaims freedom of religion as one of the most basic human rights.

Since the tragedy, we have erected memorials and museums around the world. Jewish people have maintained their pride in their religion and proclaimed that a genocide like this wouldn’t happen again.

On Oct. 27, 2018, the deadliest attack on the American Jewish community shocked the country. An anti-Semite stormed the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, and murdered 11 holy souls who had gathered there early to begin the Sabbath prayers.

There is no protocol for how one reacts to such events. Emotions ran high throughout the weekend, ranging from grief to severe anger to isolation and fear. It was hard for the country founded on the freedom of religion to come to terms with this violence.

The Drexel Hillel Center hosted a vigil in honor of those lost in this attack Oct. 29. By the start of the event, the building was overflowing with people who had come to grieve and find a way forward. During the vigil, Rabbi Isabell, the head of Hillel spoke with a Drexel student from the Pittsburgh community. They recounted the events that took place and also tried to empower those gathered. “I am part of a Pittsburgh synagogue, I will never be scared into hiding, and I will always be proud to be Jewish,” the Drexel student said.

There were speakers from other faiths too. They shared their sympathy with the Jewish community and pledged their support during this hard time.

“We will not stand by you when events like this occur, rather we will step in front and take the bullet, for we are brothers and sisters under one God,” one of them said.

It is this sentiment that can help us make it through tragedies like this. It is not the first mass shooting driven by hate, and sadly it is unlikely to be the last. The only route to seek is to build community. We will never forget the beautiful souls taken from us, and the best way to honor them is to continue their legacy. To gather at the synagogue early in the morning, yearning to be closer to God and each other. To sit, hand-in-hand with Christian, Muslim, Hindu and community members of other denominations and be proud of who we are. To find commonalities and strive to understand each other better. When we can forget the things that divide us, we can come together and find a way forward together.

Simpsonville, South Carolina was met with a big surprise Oct. 24. A lucky small town resident received the news that they had been the sole recipient of the Mega Millions $1.5 billion dollar lottery prize. This came as a shock as it likely would for anyone. Just last week the prize was hovering around $900 million, but spiked after the word got around that the pool was larger than usual. There’s no doubt this mysterious person is beyond thrilled, and their life is likely changed forever for the better.

But that’s the the bright side of the story. That’s the image that is promoted and promised by large lotteries that prey upon the poor and uneducated people who participate in the lottery. These are the people who participate in the lottery by a large majority. For these people the money that they pour into the promise of riches they can only dream of achieving serves as a sort of regressive tax. That is to say that the price of a lottery ticket is a flat fee, meaning the value of that amount of money is more costly to someone with a lower income than it is for someone who is better off.

Lower income, often uneducated, families, are sometimes forced to gamble on odds that would be considered illegal by most gambling laws in the country for the chance at wealth that they desperately need, but have no other means to achieve for a variety of reasons. This leads to a system that preys upon those who are already struggling by misleading them and promising them something they will most likely never achieve.

On top of that, as much as 39.6 percent of earnings in lottery winnings can be taken by government taxes. Taxes are important and necessary for a government to run functionally, but regressive taxes are often unfair and abusive and lead to the poor paying a higher percent of their income than the wealthy. Then on top of that, the government is profiting off of what is construed as a choice, but it is really a last hope for many of the people who are participating.

You can argue that participating in the lottery comes down to the individual and that no one forces you to pay it, like they would a tax, but this is a system that is designed to specifically target and victimize lower income families to wager money on a negligible chance at achieving a life they deserve.

The winds of change are upon us and as the days get shorter and the once clear skies remain overcast for hours on end, perhaps a different metaphor plays out in the minds of students at Drexel University. New students are perhaps just waking up to the reality of the Drexel system with 8 a.m. examinations suddenly dropping on their laps. For some, the first Co-Op job does not seem to be as cushy as they dreamed it to be. For others the vagaries of living in the city, away from the comforts of home are just beginning to hit hard. And when the October blues hit, most students turn to the next available resource, the Drexel Counseling Services. However, for most people this experience falls short of the ideal that such a service ought to entail.

The Counseling Center operates in a method not foreign to colleges and universities, where a short-term, free treatment model is employed. Unfortunately, it’s hard to gain a clear picture of what this means; even the website is vague, stating only: “Due to a high demand for services, and to ensure that the most number of students receive services, the center sets a limit on the total number of individual counseling appointments students may receive.” It seems as if in the past two to three years, student experiences have anecdotally marked a transition from a mix of long-term and short-term care at the center to a fully short-term model with no exceptions in recent months. This shift seems also to be marked by the staff changes that have occured at the center in the past six months.

The Counseling Center is alarmingly under-staffed, with only one psychiatrist working part-time for a student body that is constantly expanding. The 2017-18 school year staff, however, featured a full-time psychiatrist, whose hours were decreased throughout the year until she left Drexel over the summer. Just ten full-time staff psychologists serve the entire center, and doctoral interns and Psychology externs together participate in rotational practices at Drexel, but supply only a few more therapists a year (nine for 2018-19). These interns and externs are therapists at the Counseling Center for an academic year, and leave once their rotations end; this means that a patient paired with an extern will only have a maximum nine months with their intern/extern therapist before being referred to an outside practice. Such understaffing may play a role in the many ways that the Drexel Counseling Center fails to meet the gold standard of care for students in its charge.

The only psychiatrist available for medication management treatment at Drexel is male. On the surface this might seem like a trivial issue; he is a friendly, trained professional equipped with both tools and experience in addressing several issues with care and compassion. However, such singularity does not address the diverse gender dynamics that are at play in some cases such as sexual assault. Students that have survived sexual assault experiences may need or strongly desire a gender balance with their care providers to be more comfortable, including and extending beyond mental health care. With only one psychiatrist available, and being only part-time (he is only on campus on Thursdays), students referred to medication management through Drexel’s counseling services will have no choice but to work with the staff psychiatrist available or seek care in an outside facility.

Moreover, Drexel’s counseling team offers only one caseworker, who is tasked with helping students find an external care provider once their time at the Counseling Center has expired. Students aren’t instantly referred to the case manager upon exiting the counseling center, and their decision whether to continue treatment or not is their responsibility unless they reach out for assistance. While this system probably works “well enough,” it is also arguably irresponsible. Students that have required counseling may not be in the best position to proactively seek new care, and finding a new therapist to connect with (especially after having only a brief amount of time with a Drexel provider) can be challenging for students experiencing distress with their mental health. It’s too easy to imagine a student falling through the cracks after being pushed out of the Drexel Counseling Center, and indeed various student anecdotes have claimed this experience as a shared one as they found themselves not enrolling in long-term treatment and abandoning their medication plans upon dismissal from the Counseling Center, citing a lack of energy to seek further treatment or insufficient insurance to gain affordable mental health care elsewhere.

As we move past World Suicide Prevention Day (Sept. 10) and Mental Health Awareness Week (Oct. 7-13) the eerie silence from Drexel administration regarding mental health awareness is disturbing. For a school that is consistently and irresponsibly increasing its freshman class, pushing that “ambition can’t wait” and offering one of the most challenging academic environments a college student could imagine, Drexel’s Counseling Center clearly remains under-prioritized in budgets and resources. Once again we find an instance in which Drexel’s administration continues to underfund and ignore the very programs and services keeping the student body engaged, happy and healthy, and once again we demand better.

–The Editorial Board also wishes to commend the Counseling Center on the fantastic services they are able to provide despite the challenges they face with staffing, space, and a large student body. For a full list of resources offered by the Counseling Center, please visit drexel.edu/counselingandhealth.

Any Philadelphian worth their salt knows two things to be certain. First, Gritty is the best thing to happen to professional sports in the past decade, and second, Wawa runs in their blood. From the hoagies to the coffee, the Tastykakes to the quesadillas, the ICEEs to the F’Real milkshakes, Wawa is part of our culture. When the new Wawa location opened a few weeks ago, there was a shift in Drexel University’s campus. Prior to the grand opening, crowds accumulated around the doors, ready to pour in and get their free coffee.

Wawa’s offerings has a local reputation that precedes them and having one on campus will no doubt be a boost for the school and potentially Philadelphia as a whole. This is the largest Wawa in the city limits after all, clocking in at a cool 8,700 square feet. On the coattails of the overabundance of hoagie goodness, however, comes something slightly sad.

The family-owned food trucks and carts around campus are inevitably going to suffer as a consequence of our new haven on campus. The biggest blow to business will most likely be in these first few weeks after Wawa opens its doors as many students, especially freshmen, opt to try the new shiny hoagie store over one of the smaller, family-owned trucks nestled around campus. Food trucks let students try new, creative dishes on a tight budget, but with Wawa at the touch of your fingertips (with their new “Order Ahead” service, we mean literally) it makes sense some students would go somewhere with fewer lines and more options for the sake of ease.

The new Wawa may be aesthetically pleasing and way too big, but at the end of the day it’s a painful reminder of a practice Drexel has been partaking in for years. The University has once again decided to sacrifice on-campus space that could be used to foster a community within the student body for the sake of turning a profit. At the end of the day, Drexel is a business as well as a school, and as such is not as well off as people may think it is. The rent money that Drexel will accrue from continuing to allow well-known chains onto our limited campus space may not be worth it.

The backlit white goose looms over the students who filter in and out of the Wawa every day as they often fail to realize the opportunity that was missed in its stead. While we may love the Wawa and eat there every day, we’re under no misconceptions that Drexel is cashing those rent checks out of courtesy to their students. Instead, they’re potentially incurring harm to local businesses, such as our beloved food trucks, because it benefits them to do so. For Drexel, the more competition against pesky food trucks that are safety liabilities waiting to happen, the better. The Wawa represents another opportunity for Drexel to make a little bit more money off of its student body and their appetites for anything but campus dining. Two years ago it was the undertaking of Schuylkill Yards, two weeks ago it was the armory and now it’s the Wawa. We’re fed up with our administration consistently putting profit over the wants and needs of the student body, and we’re not falling for this Trojan horse of a Wawa.

Since the election of Donald Trump to President of the United States in 2016, conflict and tension surrounding the increased discourse on sexual assault and the awareness thereof has been on a steady rise. It almost feels as if the timing of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s public allegations against judge Brett Kavanaugh arrive at the climax of a heated political debate. Who will win? The world has been on edge regarding the decision of the Senate Judiciary Committee and both sides are getting heated.

What’s wrong with this picture?

In the past two years, the discourse on sexual assault, specifically regarding victims who come forward to name accusers many years after the alleged assault event, has grown. In the news we have heard of “great men” being accused of dispicable acts by women whose integrity, intelligence, and intentions are perpetually being called into question. We hear reporters and political leaders alike asking why these victims never stepped forward before. We read news stories which delve into all the great things men accused of assault have done. We see people of all genders, races, and sexual orientations speaking up with #MeToo, fiery arguments on social media, and people picking sides in various debates, all with different famous names, different women, different circumstances, and only one thing in common: sexual assault.

Why does it seem as if this has all become a fight between two opposing parties? Why has sexual assault become a political issue when it should have never been? Why is the debate being built around Us versus Them rather than all of us versus sexual assault?

Assault and rape are not political issues. Assault and rape are public health crises. They are tragic. They are real.

In spring of this year The Triangle editorial staff released an article regarding professor Robert Kane’s civil suite at Arizona State University (?) and composed an editorial demanding that the Drexel Administration change their hiring practices to add more stringent controls against hiring those with past sexual harassment, assault, or discrimination allegations. The practice of colleges and universities covering up sexual trauma allegations with expensive settlement price tags exchanged for turned heads and silence as strong as any PR staff could ask for is abhorrent, yet common. Drexel loves to remind us every sexual assault awareness month that we are a zero tolerance school; yet no comment has come forward from a single administrator regarding the flaws in our hiring practice in light of details revealed about Kane’s past. By not speaking up and hoping for nobody to notice its mistake, the administration is doing an enormous and onerous disservice to our Drexel community.

Pointing out flaws in hiring practices is not an attack on the university or its policies. Understandably, policies are often imperfect and go unchallenged due to an apparent lack of issues which warrant more stringent measures until something goes wrong in a big way. Our administration needs to stop hiding behind its “zero tolerance policy” and start defending the student body and Drexel community from a continued culture of ignoring victims and letting the accused off of the hook too easily. We cannot sit around with hurt feelings in a stalemate argument when we could all work together to demand a better response to sexual assault instead. This is not an argument with two sides – this is a call to action for us all to put aside our differences and work together to repair the deep hurt that tensions over sexual assault have inflicted. At Drexel, as well as our country, it is time to stop undermining victims who come forward and turning a blind eye.

Don’t pick sides; have a conversation instead. Remember that the only side that matters is all of us, together, against assault.

Somewhere, out there, beneath some white fluorescent lights, privileged men and women are squatting, racket in hand, ready to leap into an intense battle of hitting a ball at a wall. They are of course embarking on a riveting game of squash, the indoor racket-based sport that’s taking America by storm. If you’re not familiar with the sport or who plays it, you’re not alone. However, it is one of the fastest growing activities in the country according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association.

Now eager squash fans at Drexel University can rest easy knowing that the Drexel Armory, once an open space used for a variety of student recreation and activities, is being transformed into what is being described as the largest squash center in the country. Drexel already has seven squash courts located in its Kline and Specter Squash Center, and has served as the host of the U.S. Open Squash Championships in recent years.

The good news? Drexel will now be home to the heart of U.S. Squash, featuring over 20 courts and likely drawing many a country-club member from across the country to check out the riveting Squash Hall of Fame and its many thrilling exhibits on the athletes who have revolutionized the sport over the year. Likely, many a tear will be shed upon the golden floors of this paradise. Drexel will now get to be at the very start of what will likely be a very lucrative business, for both the school itself and the city.

But it ain’t all peaches and caviar. The Drexel student body seriously lost out on a great opportunity with having the Armory being transformed into a money-maker. Though there is no doubt some students will benefit greatly from having space to take part in and hone their skills in a sport they genuinely do love, those students are few and far between. Because President John A. Fry enjoys an activity and there’s money to be made in it, Drexel has once again put a pursuit of profit in front of fostering a community with their existing student body. In fact, Drexel’s own squash team ranks lower than that of our neighbor, the University Pennsylvania, so it almost feels like this is just another move in a long-standing, unnecessary spitting contest.

It’s not news to anyone that Drexel is a school that suffers greatly in the realms of school spirit and extracurricular environment. The number of students actively involved in student organizations on campus is disappointingly low given the size of the school, and though many wear their Drexel attire around school, between stress, co-op, the quarter schedule and a lack of something to really rally behind, the sense of community at Drexel can often feel lacking.

Reportedly, attempts were made to transform the Armory into a student center. It could have been a place to foster a community among all of the student body. It could have provided organizations with a place to stay and resources that could have allowed for more engagement and possibilities. Many organizations end up crammed into the Creese Student Center basement or MacAlister Hall, tucked away in corners, nearly impossible to find with a map.

This was a sorely missed opportunity to make Drexel feel more like a home for the students who are already here. It’s a shame.

Mike Avena:

It doesn’t feel like so long ago that I spent my first few hours at Drexel University holed up in my room because I was too afraid and awkward to venture out and meet new people. But when I look back at the past four years, I realize just how much I’ve grown. Stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying new things is the most important thing you can do in college. You’re not here at Drexel to close yourself off from everyone and spend all your time hanging out by yourself. Do yourself a favor and explore the student organizations that interest you, find a group of people that you click with and start working towards the goals you want to achieve. Even just stepping outside your room and chatting with your new neighbors will make a world of difference. They are the people you’re going to be spending the next year with, after all.

In addition to that, don’t be afraid to admit that the degree program you picked coming into Drexel isn’t right for you. I spent way too long in a major that I didn’t enjoy solely because I didn’t want to seem like I failed myself by quitting. Talk to your advisor, talk to your professors or department head — find a program that’s right for you and pursue it. It’s OK to change your mind and Drexel has the tools for you to do that. If you think you want to explore other options, do it sooner rather than later by talking with your advisor on how you can effectively explore other studies.

Calvin Kiniale:

Just like most students matriculating into college I was very eager to take on every challenge I could lay my hands on. I was intrigued by many things and was in the company of people who seemed to be extremely driven to make the most of every waking minute in service of their careers. My colleagues were jumping at research, volunteering and employment opportunities. I felt left behind and overwhelmed until I expressed this concern to my pre-professional advisor. Her counsel remained ingrained in my mind throughout my college career and is perhaps one of the reasons I stayed sane. Seeing as a college career is four or five years long, there will be reasonable time to accomplish most of what one aspires to do. Therefore, there is no reason to rush to take on everything and be mediocre at it all. Rather, take all things in stride and immerse yourself fully in a few valuable experiences. Simply put, quality is better than quantity.

When I started college I was also excited about the prospect of being independent. This college campus offered many of the luxuries of being on my own and I reveled in it. However, I never really understood the value of independence until I took a co-op that paid me just enough to survive through paying my bills and buying food, as opposed to taking a less appealing job and living under my dad’s roof. I had to learn how to accept the cost of good things, and to be responsible for all my decisions. Your college years will be a time to develop into your own, and it will be hard. However, all the challenges you face through college ought to be approached patiently because once the pressure is relieved you will be grateful you were bred in hardship.

Ann Haftl:

To all incoming students, welcome and congratulations! In the next few years of your life at Drexel, you should keep a few things in mind. One, stay true to yourself. Identify and start critically assessing your values. You’re about to grow into an adult, and I promise that it’ll sneak up on you. The decisions you make in the next few years will have a real impact on your life. As you approach them, know who you are. What do you value? What kind of person do you want to be in this world? What do you want to get out of college? Ask yourself these difficult questions again and again, because as you grow, the answers might change. As long as you keep your values in mind, though, you’ll be proud of the person you become.

Two, be active in student life. One of the best things you can do for yourself in college is build your community. Drexel is so fast-paced that it’s easy to lose time for activities we care about outside of academics. Try to find student organizations, events, workshops, community events or volunteer opportunities that help you stay connected to your passions. Being part of a club that lets you dedicate time to activities that keep you happy will help you center and refocus positive energy in your life when everything academic seems overwhelming. Your mental health is so important, and you’ll need to learn how to take responsibility for nurturing your happiness while balancing a busy class schedule. Take it from me that being involved in student life will certainly make this easier.

Best of luck, baby dragons! You’ve got this. I promise.

The United States is a federal republic. This means that multiple levels of governmental bodies are allowed to implement policy and law over the same area. We see this in the division between federal and state legislatures and their policies. Though it comes with its share of problems, this federalism allows the U.S. to treat the states as laboratories for new policy — that is to say states can legalize something that may not be legal on the federal level, and that’s okay so long as the federal government doesn’t try to stop them.

Since Ronald Reagan launched “The War on Drugs” in the ’80s, marijuana has been classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration, a federal organization, as a “Schedule I” drug, meaning that it has “high potential for abuse and the potential to create severe psychological and/or physical dependence.” Many over the years have made claims that this classification of marijuana, and the War on Drugs in its entirety, was a racially targeted effort to incarcerate minorities that was begun by politicians looking to enforce what civil rights lawyer and advocate Michelle Alexander calls “The New Jim Crow.”

Pennsylvania is one of the many states that has started to make progress towards dismantling this thinly veiled oppression in allowing for the legalization of marijuana in a medicinal capacity. However, we have yet to take the step towards legalizing recreational use of the substance that many other states have already taken. The primary concern of many uninformed politicians, who neither understand nor want to understand the effects of marijuana, is that young kids will be exposed to this “gateway” drug and become addicted to it — and before you know it, schools will be brimming deadbeat teenagers wearing flannels and beanies with bright red eyes.

Despite the fact that marijuana has been shown to not be chemically addictive and that it’s nearly impossible to overdose on cannabis, there is still a fear of the drug ingrained in many from years of misinformation. However, in the recent report from Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health, it was found that the rate of Pennsylvania teenagers who strongly disapprove of marijuana use saw only a slight drop between it going from illegal to medicinally legal, from 60.7 percent to 53.3. Mind you this doesn’t even prove intent to use, just those who “strongly disapprove” of its use has seen a decline. This indicates that if marijuana were to be legalized, not only would the irrational fears of it corrupting the youth be scientifically inaccurate, it would be unrealistic and unlikely that rates of abuse would change significantly.

It may be something worth considering before we throw another person of color in jail for something that shouldn’t have been illegal in the first place.

Amidst interviews, classes and co-op, dozens of upperclassmen students at Drexel University found themselves scrambling to find a new place to call home for the upcoming fall term after having their housing plans cancelled by University Housing via email.

Although the university policy mentions that freshmen get priority over upperclassmen, they should have prepared for the housing situation sooner since they had prior knowledge of the incoming freshman class being so large. Many students had also already paid security deposits which adds another layer of complication of the elder students getting the boot. Kennedy Jackman, a third-year student here at Drexel, was interviewed by 6abc Action News about her housing situation.

“It is upsetting, “ she said. “It’s really sad because I love Drexel, I love being here, I would not want to go to any other school. The fact that they’re doing this to me, as someone who is loyal to them, is really sad.”

Although the university did refer these displaced students to Drexel-affiliated properties such as The Summit this still doesn’t amount to the added hassle of having to figure out new payment options and living arrangements with other apartment complexes after committing to living in a Drexel dorm. The quality of housing options left is bearable at best as many of the better, more optimal layouts had already been snatched up months ago.

As Campus Services began preparing for new students in early May, Drexel announced that the incoming freshman class would be the largest in all of the university’s history with over 3,600 accepted students submitting deposits to start school this fall. Subsequently, the freshmen would need somewhere to live and thus Drexel was left with no choice, but to expel the upperclassmen from the university’s own housing.

However, Drexel has made it clear on the Campus Services’ University Housing page, that on-campus housing is not guaranteed for upperclassmen. The page also notes that University Housing will prioritize residence halls located on the University City Campus to freshman students for the 2018-19 academic year, even though they still require second-year students to live on campus with Drexel’s 2-Year Residency Program

This whole situation reminds me of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. At the bottom of the pyramid are the basic needs that need to be fulfilled such as food, water and shelter in order for the higher needs to be realized such as friendships or achieving one’s full potential. What Drexel has done is taken away one of our most basic needs of shelter and has thrown those upperclassmen students into chaos as they struggle to continue with their studies and social lives when they don’t even know where they will rest their head during the fall term.

Is your housing ever concretely safe? How will Drexel restore our trust in them? We cannot be too sure as these are the questions that must be answered in order for the university to save face and to properly provide for their loyal, paying students.

Just a few weeks ago, 32nd Street in between the Armory and the Firestone building opened back up. When it did, not only was there a newly paved street, there was a raised crosswalk and median smack in the center of it too. Before construction, that stretch of road was always blocked by food trucks and a crosswalk never existed. The new crosswalk will unify the exist portion of Lancaster Walk with the yet-to-be-constructed portion in front of the Firestone building. This is a great step for safety on campus for pedestrians — but it’s not enough.

According to the Philadelphia Police Departments in statistics provided to the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, 40 pedestrians were killed throughout the city in traffic accidents in 2017. Some of the most significant factors in these deaths were speeding and distracted driving. It’s no secret to Drexel students that an alarming number of drivers zip through campus either not paying attention, speeding way too fast, or toying with a dangerous combination of both.

Philadelphia has laid down plans to reduce traffic deaths to zero by the year 2030, as outlined in Mayor Kenny’s Executive Order 11-16. This order includes changing road designs to incorporate protected bike lanes, improve road markings and signals, and install pedestrian signals on lights. It also includes more radical concepts, such as implementing protected intersections and curbless streets.

Drexel’s campus today is largely home to faded road markings, unprotected bike lanes, and no mechanisms to slow down unruly drivers. Not only is the campus split in half by a major throughway, crossing it can all too often feel like a suicide mission. Powelton Village is even worse regarding road safety. Any students that lives in the neighborhood can say they’ve seen at least one dangerous road situation there before.

Way back in October 2016, we reported on Drexel student Jimmy Zhao’s petition to install a speed bump at the intersection of 33rd street and Lancaster Walk. Zhao came across this idea when he discovered the University of Pennsylvania has speed bumps around campus to deter speeding. Despite the initial traction it gained, with 287 supporters at its closing and interest from the Undergraduate Student Government Association, ultimately nothing happened. No other speed-detering mechanism has taken its place on that intersection.

Drexel’s public realm plan seems promising in terms of changing road designs, implementing several features that would improve pedestrian safety. But there’s no word on what the timeline of building them would be, nor is there even a potential start date.

Will a student have to get killed in a traffic accident before the administration makes radical changes in its approach to handling drivers? The unfortunate answer to that question is probably yes. Drexel must act now to ensure our campus streets are safe for students.