Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Not So Smooth of an Entrance to Senior Year

Brian Krosky              
                       
                With seniors utilizing their opportunities to full advantage, many of them drive to school so they 
can be more flexible with activities before and after school, not having to rely on the bus schedule. 
However, a common complaint has risen among the seniors about the entrance to the main senior 
parking lot. 

Originally closed off for many years, another entrance was created to ease traffic and create a 
more steady flow. Now people can enter without having to circle around the parking lot completely. 
However, many students who utilize the parking lot on a daily basis have begun to complain about the 
quality of the parking lot entrance, and its need for updated maintenance. 

There has been speculation whether or not the school put a speed bump in that entrance to 
abate speeding, but no one has a sure answer. Senior Principal Thomas Kachadurian doesn’t believe so, 
but senior Akina Ngu does. “ I think it’s a speed bump, I feel like it is. I have to slow down or else it’ll hit 
the bottom of my car.” Whether it is or not, many students have also noted that the entrance has began 
to erode and deteriorate, creating a dip, which is just as harmful. 

Senior Ricky Rovelli weighed in saying; “It’s getting to the point where it can danger your car 
every day.” 

Jack Blanchard went as far to say, “It is needed (on maintenance repair), it would be less 
expensive to fix it than a lawsuit against the school of it causes an accident, it has the potential to.” 

One thing is for sure, students believe adamantly that there needs to be changes. Out of the ten-
plus students interviewed and asked, they unanimously agreed that this entrance was the worst of all 
the other ones in the school.