Drury Bike Program Rolls On

A Drury student goes to class with sustainability

Springfield MO-Students at Drury University in Springfield will now have a choice to help the environment by using a bike around campus.  The bikes are part of the students’ sustainability tuition fee.  This fee was approved by students years ago and must be used for the helping the environment as well as being a benefit for the student population.

Susan “Sunshine” Greenheart, director of the Drury Compose and Reuse Department said the bike program has been a huge success.  “For some time now, all the money we got from the tuition fee was going to providing recycled toilet paper to the students.  They wanted something more that they can put their hands and feet on as well as their butt.  The bicycle program meets those needs.”

This program also compliments crosstown school Missouri State who has recently begun giving their student body a choice of a skateboard or uni-cycle when they register.  “At Drury we have a saying, “Pay your fees and get your B’s.”, added Greenheart.  “Now those B’s means Bikes.”
LaWanda Johnson was thrilled when she got her bike.  “I got a pink one.  Since I never had a bike they put training wheels on it for me.  They even threw in a helmet, knee and elbow pads all in pink.  I’m going to have pink tassels put on the handlebars to make it really cool.  I’ve also been looking for a name license plate to put on the back so everyone will know it’s my bike.  I can’t find any plates named LaWanda.  All of the Emily’s, Tiffany’s and Heathers you want but no LaWanda.

LaWanda’s boyfriend, Justin Goober was just as excited, “I’m going to hook a baseball card on the back spokes so it sounds like a motorbike when I’m riding around.  This also means since I live in the dorm, I don’t have walk in the rain and snow to class.  Now when it rains or snows I’ll just ride my bike instead.”

There are rules however with the use of the bikes.  Students using the bikes must stay on campus at all times and under no circumstances are they allowed to cross the street.  If found guilty of this infraction the student will be given a “time out” and sent to their room.  Bike riding privileges will be reinstated once the administration gets a note from the students parents.

Other safety measures include having trainers and Physical Education majors run along side the bike riders giving them water and gatorade all over the campus.  “We want them well hydrated where ever they go on school grounds.  We are also thinking about putting showers in the classrooms so they won’t be stinky when they get there,” added Greenheart.

There are some students that have no use for the bikes.  Lance Goodteeth, President of the Tappa Kega Brua social fraternity had these comments.  “I’ll never use a bike.  If I need to go from place to place, I just have some freshman pledges carry me.”  Chuck Beefer the 450-pound big man on campus echoed the negative feeling.  “I have no use for a bike at all.  When they figure out a way that you can smoke cigarettes, eat sandwiches, and watch TV with bikes, then I might take another look at them.”

Future plans with the money generated from the sustainability fee include the construction of a $50 million dollar bike garage due to start in the Spring of 2011.

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