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So . . .<BR>
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Instead of leaving security of the UI campus in the professionally well-qualified hands of the Moscow Police Department, at a cost $100,000/year below the previous MPD contract, UI is going to pay Allied Barton (a company reported to be highly unethical) $391,000/year for the next several years (it's a multi-year contract) to walk the streets of the UI campus and call the cops (MPD I'm assuming) if they witness a crime, without initiating any action.<BR><BR>
And the training required before an Allied Barton employee can "pin on the badge": Eight (8) hours of on-the-job training (locate the UI library, SUB, and Idaho Commons on a map) followed up with annual four-hour refresher courses (in case new facilities are built and/or the price of latte' at the Commons goes up).<BR>
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Seeya at Farmers Market (thank God Allied Barton isn't patrolling that), Moscow.<BR>
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Tom Hansen<BR>
Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT color=#000000 face="Courier New">"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go to work."</FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT color=#000000 face="Courier New">- Roy Zimmerman</FONT></P><BR> </body>
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