With the harsh January weather rolling right into February, it is difficult to miss the large amounts of snow piled high around streets, pathways and parking lots.

While facilities and local city plows do a great job clearing the snow as quickly as they can, it is sometimes just not fast enough for some students.

Recently, there has been a sharp increase in complaining and whining about snow on the common pathways of the campus. Students are starting to question why they even pay a quarter million dollars over four years to attend a college that waits until a polar vortex blizzard ends to start plowing. It just does not make sense.

This has inspired a group of students to stage a protest about the conditions of the walkways around campus. Their chief complaint: it is almost impossible to walk to class in an inch of snow.

Many students, having forgotten how to properly walk, have raised safety concerns with administration.

“I don’t understand why it’s so hard to just remove the snow. I mean it’s super dangerous to be walking around in these conditions. I could slip and fall and then my parents would have no choice but to sue the school,” said a spokesperson for the protest organizer, Sigma Pi.

Even though the entire State of New York as a whole will be covered in a thick blanket of snow, students believe that campus should be free of snow the moment it falls on the ground.

“How can they let snow accumulate on the ground? It should just be removed as it falls,” said Ricket T. Cricket ’21. “I don’t pay $70,000 a year to let my snow boots get wet, and my parents don’t generously donate to the school just so I can take a detour route to my 8 a.m.”

In order to calm the fears of the students and appease some parents, administrators have taken drastic measures. They sent out an informative campus wide email reminding students that, yes, it is slippery outside, and if you’re having trouble walking, pretend to be a penguin or just move to the west coast.

“If I have to walk to class when it’s -25 degrees outside, I think facilities can drive their tractors around to plow,” commented Tammy Brady ’19.

“The worst is when they clear a path in the morning and right when I get out of class, the path is covered again. Is this some sort of sick joke the college is playing on us?”

Despite college students voicing their concerns regarding the blocked pathways, they find no problem trudging to off campus houses on the weekends.