New parking ruining scenic campus

Taking the walk between houses two and three up to the library, I see Founders Hall. Correction: I see cars. I see cars in front of Founders Hall. To my left, I see the Mansion and the SETbuilding in the distance, but lining every route to those buildings and common grounds are cars, something completely absent in the pictures on the college’s website.

Itis appalling to see every green piece of land on campus surrounded by cars on their perimeters. I did not plan on coming to Cabrini College, a school “nestled amidst a serene, 112-acre wooded campus,” according to the school’s website, just to see that serene location transformed into an overgrown parking lot. Maybe that should be added to our mission statement while we’re at it.

The talks of an upcoming construction site for a parking garage sounds like a great idea when all we do is complain about our lack of parking. However, isn’t it possible to argue the opposite? Since when does an obtrusive, gigantic slab of concrete, which may hold a couple hundred cars, constitute a “serene” campus?

Many of us have chosen this school for the mere fact that it is not in the middle of Philadelphia, aplace full of hustle and bustle, where cars line every curb and