{"id":6690,"date":"2024-10-09T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2024-10-09T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T21:05:13","slug":"uchicago-announces-plans-to-replace-campus-shuttles-with-piggyback-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/09\/uchicago-announces-plans-to-replace-campus-shuttles-with-piggyback-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"UChicago Announces Plans To Replace Campus Shuttles With Piggyback Rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UChicago announced this week that it would begin phasing out its on-campus shuttles, replacing them with piggyback rides provided by members of the administration. This change, which comes as the University faces unprecedented financial challenges, will see President Paul Alivasatos and other members of the University\u2019s senior leadership carrying students around campus and adjacent areas of Hyde Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the proposed plan, President Alivasatos would mill around outside the Regenstein Library, waiting for students to hop on his back and ride him to their destination. \u201cI\u2019ll take you wherever you want to go,\u201d said President Alivasatos, jogging frantically in place and wearing a boyish grin. \u201cRatner? Done. The Metra station? Done. If you need me to go faster, just smack me on my haunches like a horse and ride this bronco into the sunset.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe at the University of Chicago are continually searching for new ways to provide our students with rich educational opportunities and affordable, efficient methods of transportation. We look forward to this new chapter in the school\u2019s history,\u201d said Provost Katherine Baicker as she lifted two first-years above her head and spirited them across the midway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other news, UChicago recently introduced the VIA Transport service as a replacement for the school\u2019s free Lyft program, which transported students around Hyde Park during the evening and night. In addition to this new service, the University has also announced the JIM program, in which Dean of Admissions Jim Nondorf pulls you to your dorm like an Alaskan sled dog.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the proposed plan, President Alivasatos would mill around outside the Regenstein Library, waiting for students to hop on his back and ride him to their destination. \u201cI\u2019ll take you wherever you want to go,\u201d said President Alivasatos, jogging frantically in place and wearing a boyish grin. \u201cRatner? Done. The Metra station? Done. If you need me to go faster, just smack me on my haunches like a horse and ride this bronco into the sunset.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":6691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}