“The escort service is no longer available to off-campus parking areas because, as a major institution, we are held responsible by the city to mitigate any adverse impacts on our neighborhood.”If you guessed your local on-campus pimp, you were wrong. If you guessed the executive director of the city’s public hospital, you were right. Eileen Whalen was speaking, of course, of Harborview Medical Center’s shuttle service, which takes employees to transit centers like the transit tunnel and the ferry terminal. But for PR purposes, she might want to indulge in a different nomenclature, lest people associate her with Don Magic Juan and his ilk.
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