Dear Editor:
The Daily has hosted some superior reporting this semester, which is why Monday's article on the TCU Senate's Joey initiative ("Joey GPS project still facing roadblocks ...") is such a shame.
The "logistically challenging" hurdles that the article alludes to are not specified, which isn't surprising, considering that the Daily does not indicate any attempt was made to contact Director of Public Safety John King, Police Captain Mark Keith or Joseph's Limousine Service owner Jerry DeBari - the administrators of the Joey shuttle in the first place.
The accompanying editorial is likewise misinformed. The Daily argues that no more of the TCU's "financial capital" should continue to be spent on the project, despite the fact that no money has been spent on the project in over a year and most of the technology necessary was developed using free tools, such as Google Maps, in-house.
The figurative roadblock since the spring of 2006, on the other hand, has been solely the reluctance of the administration to adopt any measure to either improve the transparency or the reliability of a system that the Daily editors themselves point out cannot be counted on.
The underlying problem is not misallocated resources or a lazy student body, but rather the sluggishness of a system that seems still allergic to change.
The fact that a problem so minor takes years to fix (see the Nov. 6, 2003 News item "Joey tracker expected by end of year") is the real story.
And that might be a story worthy of the Daily's reporting.
E. J. Kalafarski (LA '06)
