Metaphor of the Day: UC-Berkeley Builds Escape Hatch for Chancellor
4th August 2016
The University of California at Berkeley has just finished construction on an extra door—dubbed an “escape hatch” by some—that will allow the chancellor to leave his office without encountering student-protesters.
Note that Chancellor Nicholas Dirks did not personally request the door, which cost $9,000, according to The Daily Californian. Other staff members, as well as the police, thought public safety would be improved if the administrative building had a second exit.
Evidently the thought of just arresting the trespassers and removing them never occurred to anybody.