Stadium Renvations, they really are that bad.

Earlier in the year I wrote a post called "Stadium Renovations, are they really that Bad?". Don't bother looking for it, it somehow got deleted before I could publish it. The gist of it was that while imperfect, the renovations would be good for the stadium, and look pretty cool.

Well a few thing have come up since then and I am not so sure that the goodness of the future outweighs the shittyness of right now. READ, READ. This isn't cool. This comes right after the fiasco of planning graduation at EMU because the administration didn't realize that the stadium would be under construction when they approved for the stadium to undergo construction.

I might be a whiny bastard, but I don't want to be part of the second largest crowd watching a football game anywhere in America. I was never informed of why the stadium needed to undergo renovations in the first place. Sure the women had to wait to pee, be it had been that way for a long time (and the way it should be). I don't know why the university would need to spend 226 million to put in luxury boxes while there are over 10,000 people on the waiting list for season tickets.

Here is my real issue. I don't know why the wheelchair bound can't sit in the bleachers with everyone else. I would never imagine someone who has to sit all day complaining about the lack of seating in a stadium with 107 thousand seats. I don't expect to drive my car into the stadium because I can't be bothered to get out and sit with everyone else. (Probably because I don't have a car, otherwise that would be a great idea) From a utilitarianism point of view, Michigan is morally obligated to maximize the happiness of the most people. So telling 12 or 13 people they can't watch the game because 1 handicapped person wants to see it would have John Stuart Mill rolling in his grave. I don't know why they think they deserve there own seating space, super fat people don't get their own sections of the stadium. They should amend prop 2 so that preferential treatment isn't given to people just because they take up the space of 12 people.



If they had never decided to renovate the stadium in the first place, graduation would still be at the Big House and Michigan would still be home to the largest single sport stadium in the world. I wonder if the regents had foreseen all of this if they still would have voted for it.