Yet more randomness

Usually about once a week some campus publication or another will be left outside my door. Usually, about once a month the maintenence people remove said publications from outside my door because I'm too lazy to pick them up and dispose of them myself. Recently however, I was informed that there was an article about one of my friends in one of them so I actually picked up a copy and read it. It turns out that The Blue and White is surprisingly entertaining. From the back cover:

Word has it that it costs the university 15 cents in used energy every time you press the handicapped button to open the doors into John Jay or Butler.

Tuition for a full year is about $40,000, which equals 266,666 door openings.

The B&W has calculated that it takes the door five seconds to open and close. Therefore, it would take you 370.37 hours to use up all of that money, or about 46 days of pressing the button constantly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Personally, I suspect that the handicapped doors are more expensive than that.. Mostly because their overuse causes them to break fairly often. [And they definitely are overused - I'm certainly not paying $40,000/yr to open doors for myself.] Anyway, the B&W also has a blog where I found a post that I wish I'd thought to do myself: Bwog Quiz: Know your Facades!