<p>Okay, so I heard if you get hit by UMICH's blue bus,
you get a free tuition.</p>
<p>Any good suggestions? :-)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, untrue. I heard someone got hit by a blue bus during my freshmen year, and they didn’t get free tuition.</p>
<p>If anything, if somebody gets hit by a M-Bus, that person should have to pay the full tuition and have any financial aid revoke for stupidity. Coming from somebody who has driven through campus hundreds of times, especially down State Street from Huron to Hill, people just walk onto the street as if there aren’t cars, and then realize that a car is coming. Half of the time, the students are just absorbed in their phones that they don’t look at traffic before stepping onto the street. There are other people who will be listening to music and then just waltz right onto the street while your driving. Some decide that “I can beat that car” until they realize that the car is like 10 feet away and they have to jump back onto the side walk. I have seen people walk right in front of the AATA buses when it is crossing the intersection and I have ridden in it once where the AATA bus had to stop really fast because there are students who decided to cross when they had a red light. It’s like people loose all ability to cross streets when they go to college. I mean seriously, a 5 year old can cross a street better than them.</p>
<p>“Half of the time, the students are just absorbed in their phones that they don’t look at traffic before stepping onto the street.”</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with the phones. Crossing the street without looking is a time honored tradition at U-M dating back to days before cell phones and answering machines. I consider myself one of the guilty.</p>
<p>Talk about how you have a great plan to expand diversity that requires only $50,000 a year.</p>