About 60% of the kids have signed up for the program:

This fall, Ripon College in Ripon, Wis., is offering freshmen free mountain bikes, helmets and locks in exchange for a promise not to bring a car to campus. The $300-per-student cost is funded by private donations.

They started the campaign to avoid building a new parking garage. I bet the kids will wish they hadn’t signed up when winter hits. How much you want to bet they bring their cars to school at the sign of the first snow?
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