For more than a week now, I have been following the “innovative” ideas of the new Department of Residence director Randy Alexander and the complaints they have drawn from residents, custodians and almost everyone associated with the residences except from those administrating them.

Up to this point no resident or Daily writer has reported any promised improvements or, a fortiori, any positive actions already taken.

Is this a repetition of a well-known ISU scenario about highly paid university officials trying to justify their hiring and salaries through unjustifiable actions?

To Randy Alexander and anyone else trying to keep these same old traditions, I dedicate these Cinderella verses:

“Woke up this morning on the wrong side of bed

I got this feeling like a train’s running through my head

Turned on my radio to the same old song

Some big mouth talking trying to tell

Us where the world went wrong

But all this talk of peace and love

It’s only for the news

Cause every time you trust some one

You end up getting screwed

The more things change

The more they stay the same …”

George Voutsadakis

Graduate Student

Mathematics