Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
This reminds me of the walk from Cary Quad to campus at Purdue, where the first class was at 7:30 and we all tramped down the fresh snow on the sidewalks, then the sweepers came out at 8 and essentially polished it into a treacherous ice sheet.
Tell me about it!
I graduated from Purdue in '91.
I can't fathom WTF they were thinking with those damned ice polishers!

If it was a dry climate like CO or UT, they could have been useful.
But in fact they served no purpose whatsoever in the IN climate.