Letters to the Editor
Housekeepers undeservedly get a bad rap
Dear Editor:
Re: “Caught red-handed” [Dec. 1, 2004].
I have been here for 22 years and no one has ever talked about the housekeepers the way Craig Pacheco has.
Why would Pacheco think that all housekeeping staff steal? Because he says he has nicer things in your rooms than “we” have in our entire homes. How dare he. And because he doesn’t know us he thinks we would come in his room to steal instead of cleaning up after him. Please think again. I would never take anything from any student or their room (if I was ever to work on the South 40).
If students want to know us, they should talk to us and not just walk past us on campus with their heads up high as if they’re better than us. We clean after everyone on this campus and we always get a bad reputation when anything comes up missing. That’s what some people think and Pacheco with his bad words just added on to the fire.
Last but not least, I would like to thank Taylor Guthrie for standing up for us ["One rotten apple shouldn't spoil the bunch," Dec. 3, 2004]. She took up for us, so I speak on behalf of the housekeeping staff when I thank her for her caring and concern for the work we do.
-Lucinda Whirley,
McDonnell Hall Housekeeper
Visitor parking lacking
Dear Editor:
I am a frequent visitor to the Wash U campus as my girlfriend attends school there. Every time I go there, I park in a garage or wherever may be closest to her dormitory, with the walk, weather conditions and laziness taken into consideration.
Over the course of this past semester, I have accrued numerous parking tickets due to this action and this past Wednesday, the ultimate punishment of my car being towed off the campus happened before my very eyes.
Now I understand that my actions were out of laziness more than anything, but why on earth is there no visitor parking on the campus?
I asked the gentleman who issues parking tickets on Wednesday night why they had no visitor parking, and his simple response was, “That’s what the meters are for.”
When I tried to argue with him that there is a maximum of two hours at those meters, he persisted that it was the only visitor parking available.
Why does a school with the prestige of Wash U not have visitor parking? With hundreds, if not thousands, of high school students coming there to take school visits, are these “visitors” given tickets too if they park in the wrong place or if their meter expires? My questions were answered by the “ticket giver” as he stated that “if they don’t have a permit, they will be ticketed.” That must make for a great first impression for those receiving tickets.
With schools such as Fontbonne University, UMSL, Webster University and SLU in the surrounding areas, these schools have done the right thing and included visitor parking on their campus. It is time for Wash U to do the same and treat visitors to their campus with the respect that they deserve.
-Dave Kinworthy
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