One of the prevailing themes by the some of the administration and students at UB regarding The Spectrum's Metro article ("Talks on free Metro passes move slowly," Feb. 2) is, and I am paraphrasing, "Why should anyone pay for a service they don't use?" I totally agree.
This is why for several years I've been writing about the comprehensive fee. Each undergraduate student pays $800 per semester (about three months) for services many of us don't use. Can someone in the administration at UB please rectify this problem! We are not just talking about $25 per semester. We are talking about hundreds of dollars of services per semester that some students don't use. These students should be able to opt out of the comprehensive fee services that do not benefit them at all!
As far as the free Metro passes for the benefit of the urban minority students, and any other student who is financially strapped for whatever reason and doesn't have wheels, I would be glad to add $1 per semester to my student activity fee for this worthy cause.
But even if only the students who ride Metro have to pay $25 per semester for that service, it is a deal? You would spend more than that in less than two weeks at the regular fare to ride the Metro bus.
Photo: Courtesy of Matthew Messina, from the RMBERS' Instagram page
