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The news that Siena Heights University was closing next year after 105 years of existence hit me like a punch to the stomach.
It made me think back to the fall of 2005, when my wife and I drove to Adrian dropped off our son Cameron – a fresh-faced graduate of Fowlerville High School who had been recruited as a pole vaulter on the Siena Heights track team. We moved him into his dorm room and met his three roommates, fellow track team members who were just as excited and nervous as he was.
The following spring, I drove down to Siena Heights to move him out for the summer, and it was evident that Cameron and his roommates had consumed a whole lot of pizza and Mountain Dew that year, but one thing they hadn’t done was clean. At all. The room was literally filled with eight months’ worth of college garbage…