Friday, February 13, 2004
13 February 2004
Sometimes as I go about my day to day business here, I see things that just strike me as wrong. Most of them involve the way the university chooses to spend my parents hard earned money, the approx. $40k a year that they pay for me to go here. For example, today, just like last weekend, the university is paying their 'campus police' (read: rent-a-cops) to 'guard' the parking lots all around campus. They have roped them off w/ yellow crime scene tape, and there is an officer guarding each parking lot. The guy guarding the lot between Poteat and Kitchen was wearing his bright orange vest over top of his awesome brown uniform and was leaning up against his car just waiting for someone to try and park there. Same guy was there at 9am this morning too. I can't tell if he is a cop of if he is a UPS guy who just went running with his reflective vest this morning. If there are 4 parking lots on campus that they have to guard every Friday, that is 4 cops, for about 10 hours a day, thats 40 hours for one day. Lets assume they pay these guys about $20 an hour, thats 800 dollars for one Friday of guarding the parking lots. Now that is either $800 extra dollars because they had to call in extra officers, or it means that those 4 officers are not doing their regular jobs, which means that they are not out writing tickets for every car on campus, and protecting all of the students from rapists, muggers, and murderers. Either way, it is a waste of my money, and there is a high possibility that there are more than 4 lots being guarded, and that they are being guarded for more than 1 day a week. So we are looking at anywhere from $1000 and up, maybe as much as $4000 or $5000 a week for guarding our parking lots. well, 10 weeks of that is enough for one student to go to Wake for a whole year. Good job of spending OUR money wake, I really feel good knowing that our parking lots are being protected from students who may want to park there.
You know, it just hit me that maybe wake just employs too many campus cops in general. All they do is give parking tickets, drinking tickets, and guard the parking lots. Wouldn't our school be better off without all that? Just keep one or two around to respond to the real emergencies, and to keep us safe from all the law breakers, attackers, stalkers, and robbers. (oh, and to teach RAD).
check back for more ways that WFU is wasting our money.
Sometimes as I go about my day to day business here, I see things that just strike me as wrong. Most of them involve the way the university chooses to spend my parents hard earned money, the approx. $40k a year that they pay for me to go here. For example, today, just like last weekend, the university is paying their 'campus police' (read: rent-a-cops) to 'guard' the parking lots all around campus. They have roped them off w/ yellow crime scene tape, and there is an officer guarding each parking lot. The guy guarding the lot between Poteat and Kitchen was wearing his bright orange vest over top of his awesome brown uniform and was leaning up against his car just waiting for someone to try and park there. Same guy was there at 9am this morning too. I can't tell if he is a cop of if he is a UPS guy who just went running with his reflective vest this morning. If there are 4 parking lots on campus that they have to guard every Friday, that is 4 cops, for about 10 hours a day, thats 40 hours for one day. Lets assume they pay these guys about $20 an hour, thats 800 dollars for one Friday of guarding the parking lots. Now that is either $800 extra dollars because they had to call in extra officers, or it means that those 4 officers are not doing their regular jobs, which means that they are not out writing tickets for every car on campus, and protecting all of the students from rapists, muggers, and murderers. Either way, it is a waste of my money, and there is a high possibility that there are more than 4 lots being guarded, and that they are being guarded for more than 1 day a week. So we are looking at anywhere from $1000 and up, maybe as much as $4000 or $5000 a week for guarding our parking lots. well, 10 weeks of that is enough for one student to go to Wake for a whole year. Good job of spending OUR money wake, I really feel good knowing that our parking lots are being protected from students who may want to park there.
You know, it just hit me that maybe wake just employs too many campus cops in general. All they do is give parking tickets, drinking tickets, and guard the parking lots. Wouldn't our school be better off without all that? Just keep one or two around to respond to the real emergencies, and to keep us safe from all the law breakers, attackers, stalkers, and robbers. (oh, and to teach RAD).
check back for more ways that WFU is wasting our money.
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