Please, enjoy the new sidewalks

I no longer fear for my life.

Well, yeah, there are the bird flu epidemics, the crazed maniacs, and the meteors falling from the sky, but I don't worry anymore about being run over when I'm walking behind Crapo to get from the commuter parking lot to the Union.

They're putting in a sidewalk.

I'd like to congratulate all the people involved in making this whole sidewalk thing happen. Someone noticed that cars were careening down a one-lane road, dodging the smokestack, and barely avoiding knocking down poor, helpless freshmen. And something was done about it.

I do have one concern, though. I've seen all sorts of people strolling on the other side of the road — the unsafe side — without even a glance at the sidewalk. Maybe because it's not finished, they don't trust it? Use the sidewalk, folks. That's what it's there for, and I don't want to have to write a news story about what happened when you didn't.