the wisdom of the children
Yesterday, after submitting my budget presentation materials, I went to get coffee and mused about how I could explain to the budget committee (composed of staff, faculty, and students) our need for more bandwidth in a way they could understand. I was thinking about metaphors, about plumbing, about electricty, etc., when I saw the student newspaper. I got my coffee and sat down to read it. There, between a restaurant review and an opinion piece on Obama’s election, was the article “University facilities not up-to-date.” The author started the article with a complaint about hot water availability and then migrated through a series of infrastructure concerns, finally ending up with a discussion about bandwidth. The entire piece read like a history of the evolution of facility infrastructure. Perfect!