Dissent: Let the crews work

The IU Student Association's position as the representative of the student body merits its construction limits resolution, but the limits are not well-considered.\nThe resolution recommends the University dictate the starting and ending times for its construction projects, leaving little regard for the desires of the construction workers or the demands of daylight hours.\nConstruction workers across the country are prepared to begin their days at a set time, just as members of any other profession. To force those private contractors to make workers start, and therefore end, their days later is a ridiculous proposition.\nStudents often forget the world must function outside of their desires to stay up all night. If these construction workers are forced to take on new hours and rearrange their lives to coincide with students' illogical sleeping schedules, the person-to-person ramifications might be far-reaching.\nOne segment of the population cannot tell another how to work. The construction workers' union might as well suggest students do not begin their days until noon and, therefore, attend classes until 8 p.m., even on Fridays.\nAlso, the administration and students must consider that with the limited hours of winter construction workers need to work with each available minute of daylight to be efficient.\nFor example, by late March, the sun will be rising in Bloomington at about 6:30 a.m, but the city will begin to lose its daylight a little after 6 p.m. By limiting crews' start times by an hour and a half, IU eliminates any possibility its construction crews would be able to work overtime to complete a project on time.\nAlmost any student would agree the last thing the University needs right now is extending the length of its overwhelming number of construction projects. \nEspecially with the possible upcoming construction of the new Multidisciplinary Science Building, construction times must be open for crews to complete projects on time, without delay because of student protest.\nWhile IUSA is certainly serving in the best interests of the student body with such a proposal, the matter is simply one of numbers, time and common sense. The administration and the University community would be foolish to limit the start time of the construction crews just to let students sleep late.