Friday, August 25, 2006

Irvine Valley College's CEC buildings ready for business

Yeah, the title says it all. We're glad.

On campus today, some of us were standing around, talking about the whole CEC fiasco. I heard someone ask, "So, is anybody ever gonna take responsibility for this massive f*ck up?"

Somebody uttered an emphatic "No." We all grunted. We stared silently at the scuffed-up linoleum floor in the A200 "faculty lounge"--a room that sports not one stick of furniture.

It's got a water cooler.

I checked out some of the new temporaries, and they look pretty sharp inside. They look fine on the outside too.

The landscaping needs some work, though. The bare dirt was bad enough, but I noticed that the CEC's now have their own little muddy pond. (See photo.) By Monday, it'll be fetid. I'm gonna stick a sign in it that says "Lake Chunk" and see if Glenn tries to fire me over it.

Late yesterday, Rebel Girl had some trouble with a belligerent student, and she had to call Security. It took Security about 15 minutes to arrive. How come it took so long?

Today, I checked out the location of the new Security office. It is located quite literally as far from the action on campus as it could possibly be--way past the tennis courts (I bet you didn't even know we had tennis courts!), well beyond the Red Light District (OK, I just made that up), and up against the south/east apartment buildings. I mean, no wonder it took 'em a quarter of an hour to get to the A-quad!

What kind of knucklehead would hide and/or exile the Security office?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

lets hope little denny white doesnt lose his balance around that mud hole

Rebel Girl said...

It wasn't just Rebel Girl. Rebel Girl and a dean had to extract this student from a classroom doorway where she was standing and berating a teacher.

By the way, anyone know why A-100 was locked up tight before 7 PM last night (Thursday)? It was the first night of classes for some students and some teachers and there was nary a soul in A-100 to direct and answer questions, let alone allow use of the xerox machine.

Now Rebel Girl was happy to fill in where she could, inbetween handling the belligerent student and preparing for her own class but is this the kind of impression we want to leave?


The lack of resources for evening students and instructors is sad.

Maybe I can do a series this semester...

Anonymous said...

Dennis White cannot walk straight without Glenn. But then, Glenn cannot either. Dare to guess what condition is IVC in?

Anonymous said...

Leave Dennis alone. There ain't much standing between us and the Mathurites, which includes toady Glenn.

Dennis can be a knucklehead, but he's our knucklehead. And I like 'im.

Anonymous said...

I'd rather have nothing between us and them than have Dennis standing there.

We deserve better.

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