Student interest in bus trips declining
Sarah Aube News Correspondent
Issue date: 2/5/10 Section: News
The number of bus trips may have been reduced this year, but since students are still paying for them they may as well climb aboard.
Students pile onto a coach bus early in the morning and by midday are let loose in a major city to do pretty much whatever they please.
This upcoming semester there will be two bus trips: one to New York City and the other to Montreal, Quebec.
In the past, there have been more trips but the number per semester has fallen off dramatically, cutting it down to just two trips per semester.
"We did not have a huge turnout for our past trips and we decided it was not worth it anymore," said RHD and Student Activities Coordinator Laura McNaughton.
New York City is McNaughton's favorite trip to plan, and it also receives the most student participation. Around 100 students usually head south on the NYC trip, while there are, on average, 40 to 50 students that travel north to Montreal.
The bus to NYC leaves at 5 a.m. on March 13 and returns back to the school at 4 a.m. on the 14.
"This trip is well worth the early wake-up," says McNaughton, with signups for this trip starting March 8 in the Student Life office in Rita Bole.
The Montreal trip is on March 27, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Signups for this trip will begin the week before.
The money to take these trips comes directly from each student in the form of the student activity fees. Every student pays $204 per year that goes into the activities, such as the bus trips, that are provided for us.
Students pile onto a coach bus early in the morning and by midday are let loose in a major city to do pretty much whatever they please.
This upcoming semester there will be two bus trips: one to New York City and the other to Montreal, Quebec.
In the past, there have been more trips but the number per semester has fallen off dramatically, cutting it down to just two trips per semester.
"We did not have a huge turnout for our past trips and we decided it was not worth it anymore," said RHD and Student Activities Coordinator Laura McNaughton.
New York City is McNaughton's favorite trip to plan, and it also receives the most student participation. Around 100 students usually head south on the NYC trip, while there are, on average, 40 to 50 students that travel north to Montreal.
The bus to NYC leaves at 5 a.m. on March 13 and returns back to the school at 4 a.m. on the 14.
"This trip is well worth the early wake-up," says McNaughton, with signups for this trip starting March 8 in the Student Life office in Rita Bole.
The Montreal trip is on March 27, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Signups for this trip will begin the week before.
The money to take these trips comes directly from each student in the form of the student activity fees. Every student pays $204 per year that goes into the activities, such as the bus trips, that are provided for us.
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