Darrell Morrison speaks about the budget and student concerns
Darrell Morrison, SAU's Vice-President for Finance, visited Honors Seminar today. He spoke about student concerns and their budgetary implications. At the class prior to his visit students reviewed summaries of SAU's budget. Students had also written essays on what they might do to improve SAU were they president.
Morrison gave the good news and bad news about the budget. Number One on nearly every students' lists was parking. Morrison said there was good news coming on that front. East Lane and the Peace Parking lot will soon be paved. Students also wanted extended hours for the cafeteria late at night. Morrison said he'd look into that. They also wanted the nurse's office open on the weekends. Both of those concerns may be addressed in the future.
Other student concerns and desires included an engineering major, longer hours at the new MAC, better Internet service, and better lighting around campus. Morrison said that Internet access would be improved by January and urged students to contact him should they find areas with weak wireless signals. He also said that the MAC would be open later than the current facility, but if students failed to take advantage of those extended hours they would likely be shortened. Lighting is a front burner concern for him and the rest of higher administration and will continue to be upgraded.
Morrison noted that not much had really changed since his college days at Henderson. There were teachers he remembered fondly and he could still remember things they had taught him. On the other hand, there were teachers he remembered much less fondly. Some students had noted the same pattern in their own essays. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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