YSU should view elevator safety as a serious campuswide issue

YSU should view elevator safety as a serious campuswide issue

A Sept. 12 Vindicator article about the elevator crash at YSU gave me the feeling that YSU is trying to sweep this issue under the rug, and doesn’t really care about fixing the problem. Sure, they have had inspectors come out, but the inspectors have said there have been no real issues with the elevators.

I am a second-year student at YSU, and I want to say this is so wrong. The elevators all over campus scare me all the time. For example, there are two elevators in Cushwa Hall and both shake horribly. Before I get off on the floor I wanted, I always close my eyes to prepare for it to shake. I am genuinely scared of this elevator and fear someday it may crash.

Another example is the three elevators in DeBartolo Hall. One of them is always shut down for problems and the other day, I was trying to go to my Spanish class on one of them and the doors wouldn’t shut. They kept shutting part way and then opening again. Normal elevators do not do this.

The elevator in Tod Hall is also very shaky, is usually extremely hot (and I ride this one by myself all the time), and makes strange noises. The elevator in Lincoln Building is terrible too. It is slow, shaky and generally unpleasant.

So, hey, YSU, now that someone has provided examples of terrible, shaky, and scary elevators on campus, will you please quit trying to ignore the issue? Quit ignoring it before someone else gets hurt or dies from these elevators. We students pay nearly $4,000 a semester in tuition, so why don’t you use some of it to fix these elevators? Don’t just have an inspector tell you it’s fine. How about riding the elevators like the thousands of students who do every day and seeing the problems yourselves?

Brittany Douglas, Youngstown