Institution of higher learning or cattle barn?
Being a fairly recent graduate of St. John's University, I like to stay abreast of what is happening on campus. Usually this involves knowing who the Johnnies will destroy next in football, when homecoming is/was, profs that are retiring/taking other jobs... stuff like that.
That was until about a week ago when I learned that Life Safety, SJU's rent-a-cops (think Barney Fife + 200 lbs in Aviator sunglasses on an ego trip), requested more funding from the school to buy Tasers!!! Yes, Tasers those devices that police use to bring down armed assailants using several hundred volts of electricity.
These devices are so powerful and controversial that they are illegal to use on animals in several states, yet campus security wants to use them on students.
Life Safety is also in charge of the campus Emergency Medical Response Team (EMT's) and their budget. Last year at graduation, the SJU EMT's did not have enough wheelchair's for the handicapped friends and family of the graduates. In stead of spending money to buy them or even rent them Life Safety's response was to borrow wheelchair's from the Monastery while some monks sat in bed all day with no means of mobility!
We don't have enough wheelchair's to allow all handicapped people on campus to be mobile at the same time. In stead of requesting more money to cope with that problem (Life Safety requested $0.00 in funding increase for the EMT's), let's buy stuff so undertrained overweight wannabe cops on power trips can electrocute the hell out of students.
Is Life Safety trying to run an institution of higher learning or a cattle barn?
That was until about a week ago when I learned that Life Safety, SJU's rent-a-cops (think Barney Fife + 200 lbs in Aviator sunglasses on an ego trip), requested more funding from the school to buy Tasers!!! Yes, Tasers those devices that police use to bring down armed assailants using several hundred volts of electricity.
These devices are so powerful and controversial that they are illegal to use on animals in several states, yet campus security wants to use them on students.
Life Safety is also in charge of the campus Emergency Medical Response Team (EMT's) and their budget. Last year at graduation, the SJU EMT's did not have enough wheelchair's for the handicapped friends and family of the graduates. In stead of spending money to buy them or even rent them Life Safety's response was to borrow wheelchair's from the Monastery while some monks sat in bed all day with no means of mobility!
We don't have enough wheelchair's to allow all handicapped people on campus to be mobile at the same time. In stead of requesting more money to cope with that problem (Life Safety requested $0.00 in funding increase for the EMT's), let's buy stuff so undertrained overweight wannabe cops on power trips can electrocute the hell out of students.
Is Life Safety trying to run an institution of higher learning or a cattle barn?
posted by Dusty at 12:21 PM
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