[UA] A place to start my UA campaign

[Rich Ranallo]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Toner" <thanatos at interaccess.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: RE: [UA] A place to start my UA campaign


> If I could send out an utterly useless suggestion, may I recommend
> Champaign-Urbana, home of the University of Illinois.  It's halfway to
> nowhere, built on land that no one wanted anyway.  When school is in
> session, the population of the cities almost double (75,000 to 130,000).
> The thing is, it's so classically un-occult, it's not funny, but it _is_
> a source of high weirdness, such as the Morrow Plot, the first
> experimental corn field, where various fertilizers and growing methods
> have been tested continuously since 1880.  When it came time to build
> the undergraduate library, they decided to park it next to the graduate
> library, which meant that it would border the Morrow Plot.  Then, after
> all the papers were signed, someone noticed that the new four story
> structure would, on occasion, cast a shadow on the Morrow plot, thus
> interrupting 80 years of carefully controlled data.  It was then decided
> to build the Undergrad Library DOWN, so that only a small entrance was
> visible from ground level.

Furthermore, the university and CU police tend to look the other way in
regard to the usual drunken antics of the college population: breaking
garbage cans, yelling at all hours of the night and vomiting EVERYWHERE are
par for the course on a Friday or Saturday (or Sunday, Monday, etc.) night.
Inevitably, this leads some moron to believe that he'll get away with
pissing on the Morrow Plot.  It's about then that the cops come out of
nowhere and throw the guy's ass in jail, then proceed to prosecute this
federal offense to the fullest possible extent.

It's a good thing I heard about this before I got around to completing that
crop circle hoax I'd planned.

>From Whom It May Concern,
Rich Ranallo

"Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall there was this one: 'Matters of
great concern should be treated lightly.'  Master Ittei commented, 'Matters
of small concern should be treated seriously.'"
-Hakagure



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