<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Wayne,<div><br></div><div>IF as I suspect, the frats are in fact private property, just wait for the first law suits against the university when their "agents", Allied-Barton trespass on private property to do anything at the frats. Even more embarrassing will be when the Moscow Police Department has to come and arrest/remove an Allied-Barton security guard from private property.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, for more money, the University is going to get less and many more problems in the near future. For instance, just wait till the contracts come up for another negotiation and the university starts talking about</div><div>the need to economize. Do they really think the city is going to buy that argument? Do they think the voters of Moscow are going to buy it?</div><div><br></div><div>WHEN are the powers-to-be on the hill going to realize that the appearance of impropriety is just as bad as actual impropriety? First we have what I consider "bait and switch" with the retirees, and now this. Once trust is lost,</div><div>it takes effort and money much more to get it back than it would have to maintain it in the first place.</div><div><br></div><div>Wayne</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Art Deco wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2">Here's part of what I don't understand about the UI security issue: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="2">If this was an open bid process, what was left to negotiate/discuss, let alone negotiate/discuss in secret? Shouldn't the bid terms have clearly spelled everything out? If not, then the bid process needs to be done again, correctly (which excludes Lloyd Mues).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2"></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2">I fail to see how unarmed security personnel are going to help with the alcohol problem which allegedly is part of the motivation. These unfortunate pseudocops are very likely to end up being great objects of ridicule and pranking especially if they to concentrate on the Greek community as has been alleged. [That's what has happened elsewhere.] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2"></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2">The alcohol problem has many facets including the need for an intelligent (perhaps too much to expect now from the present UI personnel concerned) and very persistent, deep reaching education and prevention program. More enforcement is clearly needed. Why not leave that further enforcement to the professionals, the MPD, with a little help with closer communication, and not with a security firm [AlliedBarton] which simple Googling shows are much less than stellar in performance and integrity.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2"></font> </div><font size="2"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br>Wayne A. 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