The
Lunatick's Ravings
Welcome to
McUniversity Thank You Drive Through.
Well we predicted it when those
signs first went up. They made this campus
look more like a fast food place than a university.
We all knew it was bound to happen and it did. At about 4:30pm on Wednesday November 11th
some poor starving individual mistook the south entrance to the university for a drive
thru to a fast food restaurant. Well this
individual went right through the sign and demolished it.
The aftermath looked like something seen only in those cheesy 80's chase
movies. The car was sticking half way through
the sign with the shattered pieces of the sign all over.
All that was missing was the light bar and either Bandit or Bo and Luke
driving off laughing and waving (well it would have helped if the car was a cop car too
but you get the point).
The best part is the care taken
to ensure nothing would happen to the signs when they were first constructed. It was anchored in concrete. The wires were underground and ran up through the
base so they couldn't be tampered with. Finally
the sign itself was graffiti proof. An
attempt to deface the sign could be taken care of with a simple cloth and soap. What they should have done was crafted it out of
titanium, or something that could withstand an assault by a motor vehicle.
I can just imagine the poor
driver. Probably starving after a long day at
work. Looking for a fast food drive-thru and
then seeing the sign at the entrance. The
ethereal glow from the sign filling their eyes. The
driver struck dumb by it like a deer in front of headlights. Finally at the last minute before turning into the
entrance the driver discovered it was not a drive-thru but a university. He went to avoid the entrance so he could find a
fast food joint (we all know just how good the food is here, BARFFFFF!). Instead he went crashing into the sign. Caused partially by confusion and partially by
rage that a university would have the audacity to imitate a respectable food service. I think ramming those signs is something a lot of
us have wanted to do (along with destroying that dam county park that used to be the
painted rock, but that is a conversation for another day). A costly mistake for the
driver, however I think it is safe to say that far more damage was done to the sign than
the car. All that was left of the sign was a
single rack of lights, the base and the two concrete pillars, one held on only by the
wires that power the sign.
In a way it is symbolic of this
university. The new symbol and signs were
created for our own President Kenny. Her
first duty as president was to remake the symbol of the university (which was only done a
few years prior). The idea seemed to be that
by changing the symbol of the university that it would make all the problems go away. A new symbol would unite the university together
behind it and have students and staff joining together and singing. I DON'T
THINK SO! All it did was waste a lot of
money including replacing a series of sign that were less than 2 years old. So now the sign and the symbol lay shattered,
broken, like hundreds of things in this university (hell I'm not even sure what the name
of it is anymore). The wonderful
beautification process of putting pieces of art and tables every where, that has resulted
in rusted hulks everywhere. As for the
tables, bring back the benches, bushes and trees they were far more comfortable and
brought a peaceful air to campus. How
about Kenny's idea of getting rid of all the lines in admin and replacing them with
walk-in offices to make the place more attentive to individuals. Now you sit there trying to get peoples
attention, since you sit in a waiting area it is easier for them to ignore you. The food service, We don't even want to touch that
(especially the food, new and improved yeah right, new service different scam). What do I
know though, these are just the ravings of The Lunatick.
Copyright ©1998 The Lunatick
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