Photo Gallery!

Today I went around campus and took photos of all the cameras that I could find in four hours. While I was on the hunt for cameras, I stopped and talked to some people, and I ended up learning a lot about the subject of surveillance. Here is the result.  Please take a look at all of the photos and comments on them.

What definitely interested me the most was how overestimated security was by some people. For instance, I talked to someone at the desk in Benson about how many cameras there were in the building. After searching around on the ground floor, I was finding it very difficult to spot a single camera. However, according to the employee at the desk, "there are definitely cameras around here, I don't know where they are, but there's one in front of the entrances and around the café."

This lead to more confusion and frustration on my behalf, as I searched around Benson, from the basement to the top floor I was having trouble finding cameras. I finally found and asked a friend of mine who happens to work at the same desk, but in a much higher position. He said that in fact there is only one camera, down in the basement in the mail room. The sole purpose for this camera was due to the fact that stealing mail is a federal offence and whatnot.

I went down and asked the people there a few questions; they don't seem to mind the cameras, but they do feel that it is really odd that they are the only ones with cameras in the building that sees the most students daily.