Very wet! Not that I'm sorry to see the rain - but it's not just wet, it's cold. And it was a long day. Two search discussions and voting, one in each of my departments; long meetings. And rain.
This isn't actually the photo I thought I'd be posting. I was splashing from class to meeting, and saw a slightly chilling sight: two campus cops, with a large, menacing, growling dog who was being trained to attack - luckily the object of the attack seemed to be a large wedge of cardboard, but you wouldn't want those teeth anywhere near you. Very shortly afterwards I saw in Annenberg Media that an unhoused man with a history of sexual battery had been arrested on campus. I'm suspecting the two things are linked. But here's my question: given that we are paying security services for a secured perimeter that's a total pain to work within (having to check back in with a USC card when we've walked fifty feet to mail a letter, for example), why are there arrestable people on campus in the first place? Anyway, they were probably trying to keep dry.
In any case - as I tend to do if I see armed police anywhere near students, doing anything unusual, I got out my cell phone as a kind of reflex action - thought I'd taken a pic, but no. Maybe Elon Musk got inside my phone.
It's so depressing to witness the fortification of USC. I can still remember when all the gates were open to the public... and almost all the buildings too.
ReplyDeleteIndeed ... and now the admin were claiming, earlier in the week, that they haven't had any complaints ... I think that they will have found that their volume of mail has suddenly become surprisingly heavy.
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