- August 13th, 2008, 8:33 am
#190489
I'm sure we all could quote a case where someone has trouble walking and the parking situation is hard on them. I know students where this is the case. But really if they have trouble walking they need to pressure their doctor for a handicap sticker. It isn't LU's fault that they can't walk.. Lu provides handicaps for that and there isn't much more they can do.
If you go to any retail store, you will notice that the staff parks in the back of the lot because the front is left for customers. Looking at that from the school perspective, the students are the customers because they are paying, so they are getting the front row. Does that mean retail doesn't value the staff? NO. that means they want the customer to have the best experience possible because they are the ones paying the money. The school appreciates the staff. They just held the first ever faculty/staff appreciation day where they let their families go to LaHaye Student Center, Ice Center, and swimming pool for free. They just issued a cost of living raise, which isn't that much, but it is something. It is still better than a lot of people get. They didn't have to give any of that.
Bottom line, the school is a business. It may not be perfect, but it is doing the best it can to make everyone happy. People may whine, but I doubt that those whiners could do anything close to what has been done by JJ if they were in his shoes. It is always easy to whine and complain about things when you are looking selfishly from your own point of school, but if you put yourself in administrations shoes and try to do what is best for the University, I think you will agree that this was a great decision and will vastly improve the current parking situation.
If you go to any retail store, you will notice that the staff parks in the back of the lot because the front is left for customers. Looking at that from the school perspective, the students are the customers because they are paying, so they are getting the front row. Does that mean retail doesn't value the staff? NO. that means they want the customer to have the best experience possible because they are the ones paying the money. The school appreciates the staff. They just held the first ever faculty/staff appreciation day where they let their families go to LaHaye Student Center, Ice Center, and swimming pool for free. They just issued a cost of living raise, which isn't that much, but it is something. It is still better than a lot of people get. They didn't have to give any of that.
Bottom line, the school is a business. It may not be perfect, but it is doing the best it can to make everyone happy. People may whine, but I doubt that those whiners could do anything close to what has been done by JJ if they were in his shoes. It is always easy to whine and complain about things when you are looking selfishly from your own point of school, but if you put yourself in administrations shoes and try to do what is best for the University, I think you will agree that this was a great decision and will vastly improve the current parking situation.
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