"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Waste of time

This afternoon I attended a mandatory meeting outlining recent security policy changes on campus. These changes occurred as a result of an incident in which an ASU student murdered a former student outside of a club last year. I hoped that the meeting would provide useful guidelines for preventing violence on campus

My hope went unfulfilled. The tips ranged from marginally helpful but obvious to ridiculous. It was a waste of an hour and a half. Virtually everyone I know who has attended the meeting agrees. The time and money used to set up these mandatory meetings could have been used for actual violence prevention. All this over a tragic incident that happened off-campus and far away from university staff.

On top of that, though I left the house two hours before I had to be at work, I was still fifteen minutes late because of the buses. At least I got some extra time to listen to music:

  1. Ellen Allien & Apparat: Orchestra of Bubbles
  2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
  3. The Sugarcubes: Stick Around for Joy
  4. Spiritualized: Let It Come Down

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Similar event with campus police at University of Washington.

Two hours. Most useful information: Think of that CD case in your car as having boxed up your CDs for the robber.

Mmmm. The Sugarcubes.