Thursday, January 18, 2007 | by nathan

Winter Weather Alert

To the two Universities where I currently hold gainful employment/enrollment:

Driving has gotten worse in Oklahoma the past week, not better. Yes, the main roads are clear but I am taking my life in my hands every time I drive through my neighborhood, as evidenced by today, when my car skidded out of control, up the steep embankment into my neighbor’s yard, then back out onto the street and straight through the stop sign. Luckily the sheet of ice over the grass was so thick that I am sure I did not disturb any vegetation that might still be alive under there.

The local public schools have had the presence of mind to stay closed all week, and yet you, universities, remain open. Do you not understand that people have to walk all around your campuses to get where they are going? I recently found out that one of your professors is having to have steel rods put in his leg because he fell on the ice. Just now, I busted my ass on the way into the office. If the public schools, who ship kids by bus and then leave them in the same building all day, think it’s too dangerous, shouldn’t you, whose employees and students have to drive themselves to campus and then walk from building to building, be closed too? Isn’t that just safer?

I almost dislocated my hip getting out of the car this morning. I want you to know that if I had, I’d be taking your entire endowment.

Sincerely,

Nate