Thanks to excessive alcohol consumption, platform shoes, and Prince, I tore some ligaments in my ankle at a New Years Eve party, getting sidelined for Winter Break.
The Sacramento State Student Health Center has simply amazing service. They didn't keep me waiting, took their time to get it right, and didn't even charge. I am a total chump for going to the "ER" and "Urgent Care" centers for prior injuries. The Sac State pharmacy has all sorts of medicine for super-cheap too!
When school started on the 29th, I traded crutches for a gigantic black Goth-velcro boot-cast thing, and spent 35 agonizing minutes limping from my car to my first class across campus.
Students With Disability Services said they exist specifically to give people like me rides around campus in their snazzy golf-carts, but could only help if I got their official paper-work filled out by a doctor and then registered in their system, a complex and time-consuming procedure that simply is not realistic for assistance related to non-permanent impairments.
There is a way around the red-tape.
While limping to class Tuesday I stumbled upon Nancy Fox, Director of University Transportation and Parking Services. Fox started telling me about how the Disability Services crew would be happy to drive me around campus, but after hearing about my experience with the organization, was kind enough to glance at my cast and sign me up for a two-week disabled parking permit! If you're on crutches, limp over to her office in Foley Hall, with 15-minute parking spots right out front.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Old Blogger. New Blog.
This is only day two for me at Sacramento State University, and already I am back to my old muckraking ways.
Like today. I had classes for the first time in the Tahoe, Amador, and Mendocino buildings, and observed that the inspection certificates in the elevators had all expired in 2004. This probably isn't a big deal, the elevators clearly still work, but it doesn't sound quite right and is probably illegal. I also wonder about the insurance issues -- god forbid there be some sort of accident, but I would suspect that the school's insurance would cover such a thing so long as the inspections were up to date, I bet the school would be directly held liable for a ton of money if they were to be found negligent in their elevator inspection duties... If I were a real journalist instead of a lame wanna-be, I would have looked into this before posting. But I'm a full time student, who has time to be responsible?
I took pictures of the certificates but they came out blurry due to the moving elevators, I'll try again tomorrow when I have some time to kill between classes, if I can get one to hold still long-enough.
UPDATE: This is old-news, the State Hornet reported back in 2002 that this has been going on for a while, and apparently isn't considered a serious problem.
A few people told me, off the record, that the school is self-insured, so the expired certificates wouldn't be an issue if someone were to get injured.
Like today. I had classes for the first time in the Tahoe, Amador, and Mendocino buildings, and observed that the inspection certificates in the elevators had all expired in 2004. This probably isn't a big deal, the elevators clearly still work, but it doesn't sound quite right and is probably illegal. I also wonder about the insurance issues -- god forbid there be some sort of accident, but I would suspect that the school's insurance would cover such a thing so long as the inspections were up to date, I bet the school would be directly held liable for a ton of money if they were to be found negligent in their elevator inspection duties... If I were a real journalist instead of a lame wanna-be, I would have looked into this before posting. But I'm a full time student, who has time to be responsible?
I took pictures of the certificates but they came out blurry due to the moving elevators, I'll try again tomorrow when I have some time to kill between classes, if I can get one to hold still long-enough.
UPDATE: This is old-news, the State Hornet reported back in 2002 that this has been going on for a while, and apparently isn't considered a serious problem.
A few people told me, off the record, that the school is self-insured, so the expired certificates wouldn't be an issue if someone were to get injured.
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