This is the first part of a two part series examining the University’s problematic bag check policy. Today’s blog will focus on the problems from a student perspective. Next week, I will concentrate on the employee’s perspective.
Spring is in the air. The sun is shining, frisbees are flying, and students’ backpacks are being searched.
On Thursday (three weeks and one day before OK GO plugs in their treadmills), the University commenced prohibition the annual bag check policy in preparation for Spring Fling. Students must now open their backpacks so that no alcohol is brought into the Quad. This is to “ensure that the experience is a pleasant a memorable one” for me. (They may actually have a point about an alcohol-free Fling being more “memorable.”)
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