It's hard to take the university's claims of budget woes seriously when it somehow finds the money to build a $20,000 boundary wall on campus Ÿ and plans six more similar structures.
The same "financially strapped" university which raises tuition yearly and cuts departments has decided that what the UA really needed was a three-foot-high wall letting people know where the university begins and ends.
Why? Was there a lot of confusion? Were people inadvertently wandering off campus and getting lost? Or have nearby neighborhoods been encroaching on UA territory?
Students should be able to trust that the money they shell out each year is actually going for the purpose of furthering their education Ÿ not for structures which serve only decorative purposes.