Tuesday, May 12, 2009

And now for another type of post

I am now going to begin a series which will detail the horrific conditions of Marquette's cafeterias. Although I do have one other thing to quickly note. Did anyone else notice how there was a lot of grass seed laid down a few weeks ago? Well guess what, either all of that grew overnight, or MU laid down sod on top of the grass seed. According to some sources that I have, the cost of this yearly operation is $20,000-$30,000. It's good to know that our tuition money is being well spent.

In case no one else heard, this semester Straz tower had a second health inspection on top of their pathetic first one. And by pathetic I mean the health inspector did not check the temperature of the milk nor anything in the Grill/Pizza area. Yes, the grill and the pizza areas have been comined as part of a cost cutting measure. Why they need to cut costs is not clear, given that the cafeteria system brings in an estimated $5 million per semester. I came to this conclusion by multiplying the rough number fo students who have a meal plan, by a number between the lowest and middle level of meal plan options, given that those are the ones used by the most number of students who eat at cafeterias. During this second inspection, the pizza was discovered to be 90 degrees of temperature, a mere 30 degrees below what it should be, and the milk was 50 degrees, only 10 degrees above where it should be. Please note the sarcasm when describing the temperatures. These were dangerous temperatures, yet nothing was done until a second inspection was made. This inspection was done by an anonymous acquaintance of the Warrior Watcher. I will eventually post much more about the cafeteria system, and will also overview past crimes which occurred at them.

No DPS has not gotten me...yet

Sorry for the long absence. I, your friendly neighborhood Warrior Watcher, have been busy with classes and finals. But now all of that is done and I can get back to letting you know what is going on with the University. First of all, look through any back issues of the Marquette Tribune that you have for the last month or so, or just go to their website if you don't hoard back issues of the Tribune. The DPS reports have an interesting line in them, that being that DPS is now in its own words "detaining" suspects. As I am sure you are all aware, that is illegal for anyone to do for a non-citizen's arrest crime. Unfortunately the Tribune has not yet posted those reports online. However, when reading the articles I did note that none of the crimes which were committed were citizen's-arrest worthy. An example of another crime which DPS responded to which was not within their ability to do so, was an argument outside of the Dogg Haus on April 1. But our friendly neighborhood private security force with no respect for the law deemed it necessary to run over their and pretend like they were police. Here's a tip for all DPS officers, either become a cop, or stop acting like one.