News-Record.com

Every time I read something like this and this, I think of a story I heard Nido Qubein tell a year or so ago and heard again this morning at One Guilford. It seems to fit the journalism business.

Shortly after Qubein became president of High Point University, he noticed a beaten path through the grass to the library. He called the head of maintenance and asked what could be done about it. Maintenance suggested putting up signs asking students to stay off the grass. But that had been done once before and the students ignored the signs. Maintenance suggested fencing along the sidewalks to discourage students from cutting across the grass. Qubein didn't care for that, either.

So, the school built a sidewalk over the path, going where the students wanted to go.