Adam Dales, a student of Professor Janelle Newman at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, read and responded to the YES! He is our college winner for the Winter 2013 writing competition. I make my way to the platform and watch more and more people filter through their commuting customs. I look down and notice I’m standing in a zone marked “No Standing.” I lose my balance and fall to the tracks below. I quickly turn to see the homeless man standing on the platform above with his hand stretched outward.