You might note that it's October and there really is no need for air conditioning during this time of the year. After all, it is fall, and that generally means cooler temperatures. Yes, that would be right, but this is Kansas, and in this part of the world, Mother Nature, like Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind, doesn't give a damn.
It was 94 yesterday. Under any circumstances, that is hot. For October, it is beyond hot, but into the realm of ridiculous.
You would expect that the law school would do their best in maintaining the temperature inside the building at some comfortable constant. After all, comfortable students and faculty mean happy students and faculty. Happy people mean people who won't complain and ditch the law school. That means high quality. That means better rankings, right? Better rankings are good. Slippery slope, but it's pretty decent logic.
Constant temperature? It doesn't happen at all. Even when everything is working fine, it's not all the same in every room. Some rooms are consistently hot. Some rooms are always cold. Some rooms have multiple personalities and can't decide what temperature to be.
So, when the HVAC system went down yesterday, it was quite surprising to discover that the entire law school was hot when it was so nice earlier in the day. Then again, I was probably failing miserably in trying to fool myself. This has happened before, many times before. It seems like once a semester, something in the HVAC system breaks down. Last year, it went down twice. And it was down for a long time, making it awful inside. It was a hundred outside and near a hundred inside for most of the day. Not nice.
Not to sound critical, but you would expect the machinery to work a little bit better. I mean, if you have to fix it at least once a year, something is up. You probably should cut losses and buy some new equipment. It might be expensive right now, but it should pay for itself when you don't have to fix it every semester. Then again, I'm not running the University or the law school.
Not to sound cynical, but I think it's a subtle way of the University telling the students something. And a little dramatic interlude to illustrate:
University (while sobbing): "We don't have enough money to pay for these things. The State won't pay for it, so we will get it from the students who attend colleges and universities here in this state. It's a shame."That sounds about right.
University puts on black mask and pulls out a pistol. Points pistol at air conditioner. "Pay up or the air conditioning gets it!"
That's all for now.
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