Challenge Accepted; or Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Submitted by:  Brad Denison

When I was hired on as the Media specialist for Instructional Technology I knew that I was expected to clean up and reorganize a few things here at College of the Mainland.  A few weeks into the job I was shown the back of L-131:

This is just an example of the chaos that was “stored” back in L-131.  There were laserdisc players, random wires, 8-track tapes, an abundance of slide projectors, more random wires, 8mm projectors and heaps more.  So I quietly said “challenge accepted.”

The week before convocation Chris Boyd and I put on our work gloves, loaded up on industrial strength garbage bags, put on face masks and got to work.






There was broken furniture to throw out.  We had to sort through piles of wires.  I’m pretty sure there was equipment older than either of us and we had to decide if certain things were worth keeping.

By Wednesday we tossed out over 35 garbage bags and who knows how many truck loads of boxes and broken chairs.  When we were done taking out the trash we sorted through the working equipment, keeping anything that could be useful and setting the rest aside for auction.

So what was the end result?

L-131 can now be used to store some of the excess equipment kept in the hallway between L-115 and L-120.  The area can be used as a workroom for soldering wires with out worrying about setting anything on fire. Right now the area is holding 11 lots that are will soon be up for an "emergency auction" that includes things like:

Emerson 19” TV/ VCR (the VCR is broken)

Emerson VCR (it turns on)

Kodak slide projector (no carousel for slides)

Newcomb record player (powers on and spins)

Reel to reel audio system (might even work)

4 Frazier speakers (in decent shape)

AND SO MUCH MORE!