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Show Let Annex die Editor: Despite the anguished crisis now eminating from the "higher education" brand of educators, about the lack of financial foresight fore-sight exhibited in behalf of the schools by the recent legislature, personally I believe the legislators were too generous to the universities. universi-ties. It seems there is no way to force university administrators to be financially prudent. What a multitude of sins are covered by academic and constitutional constitu-tional freedom! A blatant example of plain extravagance ex-travagance currently being demonstrated by the University: Complete renovation of all the rest rooms (there are at least six) in the old, temporary, World War 11 Annex Bldg. This face-lifting includes: 1. Lowering the ceilings! (about 12 inches. I guess that is supposed to cut down the space being wasted). 2. New light fixtures! (Perhaps some were having trouble seeing what they were doing in there, as each room had only from one to three windows and from two to four old light fixtures). 3. New metal partitions! (I don't believe the old, pointed plywood ones, even though unmarked un-marked and unscarred, were at all transparent). 4. New doors! (Two to each room. Is it too much to expect students and faculty to enter rest rooms through firm but old doors?). 5. Carpeting! (That's correct-carpeting correct-carpeting all around, except around thejohns). 6. New, tile-like floor coverings in the johns! (I guess the old, brown, unworn type was so dull il wasn't conducive enough to the philosophical mind during periods of meditation there). One consolation: They didn't replace the wash basins. (At least, not yet). Who can justify the expenditure expendi-ture of these thousands of dollars? Bill Grimsby Got the hungries Editor: Now that the quarter is over I have time to ask a question that has been on my mind for some time. It isn't a complex issue, in fact the question involves nothing more than the machines, or lack of them, that restore the students' energy, the candy and soda pop machines. It seems to me that the machines are there first of all to make a profit for the candy and pop companies and second of all to satisfy any hunger the students and faculty encounter. The machines ma-chines serve these two functions rather well. Why is it them that they are in great abundance in some areas and in total lack in others. I am specifically speaking of the Business Busi-ness Lecture Bldg., the very place where the motives of this country are taught have no profit-making mechanisms at all. Can it be that students in these buildings don't ever get hungry? I really doubt it. Why aren't there any of these machines in this building? I'm sure the placement of some machines ma-chines would make someone a vast fortune from the breakfast skippers alone. Any action on this inquisition would put me (and my stomach) at ease. Toni Blanchard |
