Dear Darryl, Yes, Ripon is a small town and grown probably less than twenty percent in fifty year. --eight or nine thousands. And the campus had already spread to three locations by your sister's attendance. But the crack about "civilization" was uncalled for. Ripon is not Madison where students must become "very adult" in their jousting for off-campus housing from slum lords and for nearly everything else. That is the story and advantage of a small private college. Fraternity and Sororities have always been important at Ripon and the social life mostly revolves around those units. Of course any college is just a coming together of ideas with the people in attendance at the time in history. So, I cannot speak for the situation there now. If the enrollment is nine hundred and they have nine-hundred cars to park, I can see why if a bicycle bribe of one bike can encourage a student to leave the car at home-----. When I attended Ripon, we never wished to socialize with Oshkosh or any other place. Ripon students didn't even attend the beer bar where the "town kids" hung out. As a result, there were never any college kids dying in car wrecks. The cars were for students to drive hope. And now there is no public transportation to Ripon.
A person would be hard pressed to walk from one edge of the Ripon campus to the other in twenty minutes. And there is quite a hill between the borders. I think that qualifies for a bicycle if a person must have classes one after the other at the extremities. Eric Darryl Jordan wrote: > "I emailed my sister who is a 1984 grad of Ripon > College and she responded that she is "amused because > Ripon isn't big enough for students to need bikes to > get around campus. In fact, it's such a small town, > that the reason students brought cars was to leave > town in search of civilization: Oshkosh, Madison, > etc. . . ." _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
