SOOOOO, I've been doing some research about the Vassar Community shuttle and would like to include it somehow in our final project. If you guys didn't know, there is a shuttle that leaves from main building every half hour and runs from 2-7 on weekdays. It goes primarily these hours for people with field work, but anyone who goes to Vassar can use it. The shuttle is interesting to me because it is the first of its kind at Vassar. Finally Vassar students can get off campus and go to some pretty cool places farther down on Main Street without a car or taxi e.g. the Muddy Cup (a coffee shop), Twisted Soul (Asian Fusion), Soul Dog (lots of different kinds of toppings and lots of different kinds of hot dogs). Not to mention a couple of art galleries (Cunneen-Hackett Art Center and the Lower Main Street Art Galleries). The Shuttle might even start running to the train station and they are thinking about weekend and evening hours.
So how can we tie this into our final project? I am thinking that we can work this into a zine about Vassar and Poughkeepsie relations. This shuttle could be thought of as a possible solution to the Vassar/Poughkeepsie divide. We could work the opinions of non-Vassar people into this zine as well.
This of course would be only a part of the overarching big final project. What do you guys think?
I would also like to interview people who ride the shuttle and the people in charge of it as well to get a better idea of the whole situation. I've already talked to a number of people though and it seems like a really great thing. You can learn more about it here on the vassar website.
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