Oh, geez, where to start?If only you readers could have been present during each of the meetings I’ve attended since my last article!
Starting with the Dean’s Forum, when she told us all how she intends to bring in new people to tell us how to plan to plan for planning a plan that will plan on making some great goals for RWC someday, and continuing through the Building and Grounds, Student Affairs, Computer Advisory Committee meetings, and the Faculty meeting…
This place is reeling.
I have news to share.
Got Wireless?
If you don’t have wireless by next fall, someone should get sued. The over $300,000 in technology fees RWC students paid in Autumn Quarter alone is enough to pay the measly $4,500 a year it would cost the I.T. Department to take Fred Siff up on his long-standing offer to place five wireless hotspots on our campus for free. In fact, last quarter, the students here could have paid that bill for the next 66 years!
So, what am I saying, exactly? I am saying that UC Main Campus has extended Raymond Walters a generous offer to have five free wireless hotspots surveyed and installed for free, and to charge $69 per site per month to maintain them-safety concerns and all.
The faculty provided Dean Straker with a resolution stating they feel the college should be wireless by September of 2007. Several committees have, or are in the process of, following suit, including the Student Affairs Committee, Student Government, and the College Computer Advisory Committee.
Got Semesters?
If you don’t know what I mean, you should check your UC Newspaper! President Zimpher’s newest initiative to bring the semester system to UC is a very real probability, and our Dean may need to convene several committees to discover how to plan the plans for planning such a beast much sooner than she may be prepared for.
(In the meantime, we’ll see what the Futurist has to share with us about visioning and other new fangled strategic planning buzzwords we’ll likely all be learning here soon enough.)
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I have to say that I love this campus; I wouldn’t trade the education I’ve gotten here for anything in the world, but I am getting fed up.
When I can’t even get on the Internet without witnessing stinging complaints about this school, I get angry. I’m sick of people talking about this place being just like a high school.
I’m sick of students being treated like idiots that have to be monitored constantly and don’t deserve to eat decent meals past 2:00 p.m., are expected to accept the wrong time on the clocks in the hallways, and get stuck to the disgusting stairwells that haven’t been mopped in months.
News flash to administration: students pay your salaries. Students pay your bills. We are your products, your customers, and your employers! Start paying attention to what we want you to do with our money.
And start by showing us what you’re doing with it!
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