Response ro Daily Evergreen

Recently there have been assaults on people of gay origin, which is very wrong. As the vast majority of people would agree with me on this. I am writing about an article in the Daily Evergreen because it is a subject that affect us all. These assaults were bias hate, but the subject that the paper brought up was the Woman’s Transit being overly used and ruining the original point of it. This subject struck me for the same reason as the reader. The women’s transit is made for emergency cases of girls who find themselves in a place they don’t want to be and didn’t expect to be. So in these certain cases they can safely get away from this and safely get home however in many cases it seems that people are using it more as a personal taxi service. This is not right for many reasons. Students are pretty much taxed or forced to pay for this service to be available for women. Many people probably don’t even realize they are paying for it. Not trying to complain about a good program, but personally when it is not used right I don’t really like to think that I am weekly paying for many women’s personal taxi system so they don’t have to take a bus or ask a friend to drive or possibly not go out. As brutal as this seems, I grew up in Spokane and I realize why they set up programs like this. In Spokane there are certain places where you shouldn’t be at certain times, and I do realize that sometimes you get stuck in a bad place to be and if you don’t have money to call a cab or can’t get a hold a person a program like this sounds pretty nice. However here in Pullman other than a few college guys who drink too much or a few crazies I would expect there are not too many cases where people find themselves with no other option than to take women’s transit. Now the transit has been opened for people of gay origin. I understand the reasoning for this. The school wants people to feel safe and be safe. So it is understandable why they would let gay people ride the transit since lately they have been under attack, yet I feel like this means only more cases of people taking the women’s transit as a taxi service. Instead of planning ahead and preventing themselves from having to take the women’s transit service themselves by putting themselves in an unsafe situation. I am unsure how to fix this except to tell people to only use it as a last resort or maybe keep track of how often them take it and why, and possibly confront. This problem is not too big, and does not affect people all to greatly but it struck a thought in me to write about it.