SGA VOTES TO SHARE COST OF LATE-NIGHT PHILLY BUS

In a recent issue of Philadelphia magazine, President Nancy J. Vickers was one of 16 "smart people" who were asked what they would do to improve life in the city if they were its mayor. Vickers suggested a post-midnight departure time for SEPTA trains going to the suburbs on weekends. Alas, her suggestion has yet to be taken up by SEPTA's powers that be, but Bi-Co students have engineered their own solution to their tansportation problem: a big yellow school bus that will haul students home from their Friday-night expeditions in Philadelphia during the wee hours of each Saturday morning.

The bus will pick up Bryn Mawr and Haverford students with ID cards in hand at the corner of 12th and Market Streets at 1 a.m. and again at 2:30 a.m. and will return to the bus stops at Haverford's Stokes and Bryn Mawr's McBride Arch. The bus will carry passengers only one way: out of the city, not into it. There will be no charge to students from either college.

Haverford's Students' Council began funding the bus last semester, and Bryn Mawr's SGA voted at its Sunday night Assembly meeting to pony up half the cost of the bus so that Bryn Mawr students have equal access. SGA President Lindsay Hills hopes the free ride will encourage Bryn Mawr students to take advantage of Philadelphia's many opportunities for cultural exploration, social interaction and — after all, it's Friday night — sheer revelry.

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