To the Editor:

To read the letters opposing the University’s proposal to move the Dinky Station 460 feet south of its current location causes one to wonder if its opponents are utterly unfamiliar with basic Anglo-Saxon property law, off their meds, have nothing else to do or some combination of the three.

Here’s the basic rule: unless you’re breaking some law, you pretty much get to do what you want with your property. Why? Because we’re Americans. Despite endless howling, no one has adduced a single fact that says the land isn’t the University’s or that it is breaking the law.

Reality check: 460 feet is about 153 paces of an ordinary biped and can be covered even at the profoundly slow rate of speed at which I, a gimpy biped with one good leg, moves in under five minutes. No doubt, many of the opponents of 153 paces would also be the first people to urge our chronically obese population to take extra steps — except to a moved Dinky station.

So, all of you, please, try worrying about something important: world peace, the inevitably bungled consolidation, or those noisy leaf blowers.

Mark Herr

Great Road