Cardinal Points

Issue date: 12/7/07 Section: Opinion

Do you know what really grinds my gears?

Probably not, but it's my final column, so listen up.

Some of this stuff you've heard before. Some you may think is impossible. Oh well, I know what I see, so here goes.

Let's start here at the college.

The biggest disappointment I've ran into in my Van Wilder-like career here has been the campus food.

It's sad when my favorite place to eat after being here for five years is Clinton Dining Hall. What ever happened to the Point? Replacing the Point with W.O.W. is about as smart as super gluing one's hands to his own genitals.

And what's with campus parking? How hard is it to have enough room for the number of people employed and enrolled? Come on people, simple math.

The lack of campus blue-light emergency systems is sketchy too. If I were a helpless female, I wouldn't walk through certain parts of campus after midnight.

Update the security. Especially in the parking lot behind Moffitt Hall - someone could die back there and no one would know about it for days.

The most pitiful, vile demon I've discovered at PSUC, though, as well as in the city of Plattsburgh itself, is the sleaze.

And I'm not talking about the students.

I'm talking about these grown adults, with families, who act as leaders, liberators and educators but in reality prey on vulnerable college girls like they are picking apples at an orchard.

They use their power like a metaphoric ladder to pick apples from all over the tree, as many as possible. They can do whatever they want because of who they are.

I've seen more misleading mentors in Plattsburgh than I have upper-level classes and trailer parks. You know who you are, and sooner or later, you'll get what's coming to you.

The city and its officials are right there with the college and theirs - I'm surprised they even argue so much.

'Tis the season for snow and such, how about the city's plowing method?

Let's install flashing amber-colored lights randomly throughout the Center City and when we're expecting a major snowfall, flash them so no one can park on the street without having their car towed. We'll just continue to bend over every college student we can!

Just another way to rob the college students - as if we don't have enough of that already.

And I cannot leave out my hatred for townie connections. Nothing gets me more heated than finding out a local man was dismissed for DWI after being pulled over with a blood-alcohol content over .25.

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