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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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July 11, 2007
As If Driving in England Weren't Confusing Enough ...
An art lecturer at the University of East London has been ordered to remove a public-art installation from a busy intersection in Ashford, Kent, after it caused a dozen fender-benders, the Daily Mail reported.
Credit: KNP via the Daily Mail
“Lost O,” by Michael Pinsky, consists of a do-not-enter sign, a one-way sign, a sign denoting a roundabout (English English for a traffic circle), and several others. None of the signs applies to the road in question.
Drivers “don’t know which of the signs to obey,” Ann Steare, a local resident, told the newspaper. “It is amazing that it was allowed in the first place.”
The semiotic artwork, paid for with public arts money, was installed in conjunction with a Tour de France stage that passed through Kent last weekend. Brits of a certain age would say this glimpse at roadside chaos is only to be expected when a French bicycle race is permitted to start in old England. —Don Troop
Posted on Wednesday July 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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