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The service manager of the Campus Bike Shop at Stanford University, Christian
Parker, may be headed for big trouble. He was given permission to include
marketing literature in the university's mailing packet to 1500 incoming
Stanford freshman.
He promised if students purchased his 'Security Package' they would receive
'wheel locks'. For the second consecutive year, all he gave them were the
Trans X skewers which can be opened by a few turns of a #5 hex wrench. At
least several hundred students and parents purchased the 'package'.
Bicycle theft is a big problem at Stanford.
An article appeared in the Stanford Daily on September 29th. It revealed
the distress of the school administration that was caught off-guard.
Unwritten in the article was an effort to protect the job of the Carolyn
Helmke, the university's high-paid bicycle coordinator who uncritically
endorsed Parker to the school administration.
Parker, may be headed for big trouble. He was given permission to include
marketing literature in the university's mailing packet to 1500 incoming
Stanford freshman.
He promised if students purchased his 'Security Package' they would receive
'wheel locks'. For the second consecutive year, all he gave them were the
Trans X skewers which can be opened by a few turns of a #5 hex wrench. At
least several hundred students and parents purchased the 'package'.
Bicycle theft is a big problem at Stanford.
An article appeared in the Stanford Daily on September 29th. It revealed
the distress of the school administration that was caught off-guard.
Unwritten in the article was an effort to protect the job of the Carolyn
Helmke, the university's high-paid bicycle coordinator who uncritically
endorsed Parker to the school administration.