UPDATE 5PM: He sent out another email clarifying, he wants all bikes removed by winter break so that they can get rid of the broken/abandoned bikes. Awesome!
Santiago just sent out an email regarding bicycles on Campus which I will repost below
I hope that this e-mail finds you well and winding down the semester. As you prepare for Finals, I want to make a quick announcement about bicycles. I am currently working on creating more bicycle storage (racks, etc.) on various places on campus and in an effort to do that I would like to make a request of you. If you have a bicycle on campus and it is secured to something other than a bike rack (i.e. a bench, a tree, a fence, a log, etc.), please remove it and either secure it to an outdoor bike rack or the bike rooms provided in your residence halls. Any bikes that are left elsewhere will be considered abandoned and removed from where they are. I thank you for your assistance and attention in this matter, and look forward to some bicycle safety programs during the Spring semester.
Fuck that. There are no where near enough bicycle racks, they would need to triple the number of racks, and there aren’t enough areas to place them that are aesthetically pleasing. Have you ever seen the campus center/library at night? There are dozens of them everywhere! The bike rooms in residence halls are always full of bikes that no one ever uses, and the racks outside are also generally full.
I feel like this is something that was initiated without any input from the campus community (and if there was then he failed to mention it). Additionally, people can’t use the designated bike areas if there is not enough room, so I feel like they should implement these new bike storage areas first before making a request like this.
Lastly, I think a bigger issue is bikes that are left on campus and never use, or that are locked up and broken.
https://smcmlol.blogspot.com/2010/12/bicycles-on-campus.htmloldId.20101207110921115