By: John Banta
When Thom Gencarelli, the head of the Communication department, called a meeting of for all the student workers in the department it made all the workers there nervous, what exactly were we being called in for?
The meeting took place on a Friday afternoon at 1:00pm exactly, It turns out that the meeting was about a missing $1,500 tripod and a $600 dollar zoom that are stored in the supplies closet and can be rented out by the various broadcasting student in the department that need them for classes. The tripod was one of 6 (one of which was supposed to be strictly for faculty use only) and the zoom was the same.
During the meeting we were reminded what the correct way to sign out the equipment is. But more shocking then that would have to be the fact that “if it were to happen again, then the student workers would have to be let go” said Gencarelli, His reasoning behind this drastic declaration was “how could I justify paying 7 student workers if simple mistakes like this were to keep happening”.
During the meeting someone asked if a student rented the Tripod and Zoom then why couldn’t we look at the check out sheets to see checked it out who had it last. Another student worker named Katherine Schnell had the answer “I spent a few hours looking through the check out/in log book, and that tripod isn’t in there, so we don’t know who checked it out.”
Sadly it still unknown who took out the Tripod and the zoom, which means that the Department has to eat that $2,100 expense, which is not a small amount of money. But even though we do not know what happened to the tripod, that does not stop us from guessing to what has happened to it, which range from Thom’s sad hypotheses that a member of the department stole it, to my own which is that a student simply left the tripod while out getting footage for a class. But even with all our guessing I feel that this will go down in history as another great unsolved mystery along with The Bermuda Triangle and Jack the Ripper.
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