Seriously. I did the math once. I kept track for a semester of every hour I put into student advisement, planning, teaching, and grading, divided it by my pay for the term, and discovered that I could make more per hour working closing at Checkers. (For you folks Down Under, that's a hamburger chain in the U.S.)

But, hey. The topic here is access, not pay. So lets talk about that. The number of handicap parking spaces available at this school are so limited that I have spent, on many occasions, as long as 40 minutes circling the parking deck waiting for a spot to come open.

At least twice that I can recall during the last semester that I taught there, one never did. On one occasion, I found a handicap space about 1/4 mile uphill from my classroom. The downhill walk (I am still ambulatory)to class was doable, if only barely, the return trip not so much.

On the second occasion, I never did find a handicap space. The nearest faculty space for which I had a permit was an approximately 1/2-mile uphill walk to my classroom, but that's what I did, as I couldn't quite see calling in to cancel a lecture to 50 kids just because I can't find a parking space.

I wonder how many kids miss classes altogether because they don't have the option of parking somewhere else and walking.