Editor:
It just goes to show that if you have enough money, laws don’t apply to you.
So what if we all “know” by now that donors get these types of perks (though it is a bit harder to understand why the girlfriend of a son of these donors also receives these understood perks), does that make it right?
What exactly do I benefit from as a student from these perks?
Please spell it out for me, because I am mistakenly under the presumption instilled in me by my hard working parents that we are all equal and no one is above the law, no matter who they are.
Why are we, the upcoming generation and future donors, made to pay for parking when someone who builds a museum or sponsors a bridge or medical unit on campus is made to seem above the law?
Where has our sense of justice gone when we are to the point where we just accept these biases? Where has our sense of justice gone when we just accept that since we may be taking different courses with our lives and are doing something less noble than making millions?like social work or astronomy?that we should have to pay the $10 expired meter ticket or not be able to get out of paying fines of more than $500 and have a boot released from our vehicle (due to lack of enough parking) because we are not rich enough to buy our way out of that?
What is the meaning of the word donor, because last time I checked it described someone who had no expectations of return for his or her act.
Anyone who uses the fact that they are a donor or that their boyfriend’s father’s brother is a donor (as was actually done quite recently) doesn’t deserve to even be a “donor.”
Let’s give the actions of these people another title shall we?does bribery fit?
Paying someone off so they are not held to the same stipulations as others…pretty close I’d say.
Let’s not make the Alma Allreds of the world out to be justified in their actions regardless of social expectations, because there are still some of us who wouldn’t expect rewards from their tax-deductible, charitable acts and do not think what has happened here (and apparently happens quite often) is morally acceptable.
It is in reality not?and I believe most of us are still living in reality, with exception to some employees of this university and donors.
You can sit in your “bare lightbulb-in-a-windowless room in some dilapidated building writing a paper on a Coleco computer,” as Travis Pierson wrote in the Jan. 11 letter to the editor, “University Donors Deserve the Perks,” but I choose to demand equal rights for myself, my family and other hard working stiffs of the world.
No petty social expectation could shake my determination to seek justice.
Every problem exists for a reason, let’s not make ours because we perpetuate it.
Elisabeth Wilkinson, Senior, Psychology
Former Parking Services employee