COBB HALL\u2014Following a series of accidents and complaints concerning the slippery surfaces, small treads, and general acrophobia-inducing steepness of the Cobb Hall staircase, President Paul Alivisatos has announced that all incoming students will be required to sign a waiver of liability in order to enter Cobb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students call the policy \u201cshort-sighted\u201d and \u201cblame-shifting bullshit.\u201d \u201cA waiver\u2019s not gonna fix the fact that you feel like you\u2019re going to slip and die every time you have to run down the stairs while wearing snow boots and carrying a heavy backpack through a crush of other people doing the same thing,\u201d explains Maroons for Safe Stair Usage President Sam Talos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite this, Alivisatos insists that the waiver is \u201cthe most cost-effective, practical, and safety-conscious option available\u201d to the University. \u201cIt is in no way related to the fact that the classes that meet on the second through fourth floors of Cobb are mostly humanities classes. We are neither hindering students\u2019 ability to enroll in humanities courses nor systematically disadvantaging the Division of the Arts and Humanities with supbar facilities,\u201d he added, fidgeting with his tie.The Dealer<\/em> has asked two guys who play poker in the Max P. music rooms to investigate whether this behavior indicates a \u201ctell.\u201d Their verdict is pending their recovery from falling during the Tuesday post-HUM crush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students call the policy \u201cshort-sighted\u201d and \u201cblame-shifting bullshit.\u201d \u201cA waiver\u2019s not gonna fix the fact that you feel like you\u2019re going to slip and die every time you have to run down the stairs while wearing snow boots and carrying a heavy backpack through a crush of other people doing the same thing,\u201d explains Maroons for Safe Stair Usage President Sam Talos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":7313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}