They don't go home, they are at home. Faculty and senior employees are campus residents as well. In addition, the sprawling, open grounds attract people from outside communities who attend evening classes, concerts and lectures. This place never shuts down. However, Herrington says, it's the difference between campus and city policing that has kept him on the Farm for so long.
Politicians have a vision that's only two to four years long.
When you work in a community like this, the vision is 50 years long. Furthermore, Herrington says, Stanford has presented him with challenges he never dreamed of. The involvement in peripheral issues here is what makes it interesting. I'm viewed as a community resource, not just someone responsible for law enforcement. Those challenges have ranged from coordinating security for visits by the former Soviet Union's Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and England's Queen Elizabeth II to cutting through university bureaucracy to help a frustrated professor bring a giant rubber-tired tractor on campus for an engineering seminar.