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Will Maddox
Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: Opinion
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I'm not Alan Greenspan, but it seems to me that Trinity tuition has increased a suspiciously high amount over the last four years. I can still get my five chicken nuggets at Wendy's for 99 cents; why can't I get my yearly education for less than 34 Gs?
In related news, I have been influenced by a number of close associates to run a series of columns documenting the manner in which Trinity wastes money, and I will consent.
Trinity has created a number of quite humorous jobs at which the jobholder seems to do absolutely nothing, yet the job itself drains Trinity of its funds.
Now don't get me wrong, I am glad that students can get paid to do their homework and look at Facebook, but when I see someone sitting at the pointless Coates desk until midnight doing absolutely nothing, I cannot help but laugh.
This place is called the Coates Information Desk, but what information do these people actually have and to whom are they giving it? Whatever it is, it can't be something these inquirers can't look up for themselves. I actually heard someone ask the person behind the desk a request about the Commons' hours, and they didn't know it. I have yet to see this employee actually inform anyone else.
Then last year the school made all sorts of hubbub about how they were remodeling the Coates information desk, so it would be more accessible and have an impressive appearance of rich Mahogany. Well, thanks to that genius decision, the desk continues to be absolutely useless. The only thing anyone ever does at that desk is staple their papers that they print out in the computer lab upstairs. Trinity should save the cash and effort and just have a folding table with a stapler, a tape dispenser, and the ASR applications on it.
Nonetheless, there is always some lucky sole staked out at the desk, even when no one is on campus or when everyone has gone to bed. What kind of information is this person providing from that desk at 11:45 p.m. on a Friday night? Yeah, it is beyond me too.
In related news, I have been influenced by a number of close associates to run a series of columns documenting the manner in which Trinity wastes money, and I will consent.
Trinity has created a number of quite humorous jobs at which the jobholder seems to do absolutely nothing, yet the job itself drains Trinity of its funds.
Now don't get me wrong, I am glad that students can get paid to do their homework and look at Facebook, but when I see someone sitting at the pointless Coates desk until midnight doing absolutely nothing, I cannot help but laugh.
This place is called the Coates Information Desk, but what information do these people actually have and to whom are they giving it? Whatever it is, it can't be something these inquirers can't look up for themselves. I actually heard someone ask the person behind the desk a request about the Commons' hours, and they didn't know it. I have yet to see this employee actually inform anyone else.
Then last year the school made all sorts of hubbub about how they were remodeling the Coates information desk, so it would be more accessible and have an impressive appearance of rich Mahogany. Well, thanks to that genius decision, the desk continues to be absolutely useless. The only thing anyone ever does at that desk is staple their papers that they print out in the computer lab upstairs. Trinity should save the cash and effort and just have a folding table with a stapler, a tape dispenser, and the ASR applications on it.
Nonetheless, there is always some lucky sole staked out at the desk, even when no one is on campus or when everyone has gone to bed. What kind of information is this person providing from that desk at 11:45 p.m. on a Friday night? Yeah, it is beyond me too.
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