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“When we thought about it, it seemed quite an effective solution really”, an unnamed source exclusively told The Yorker. “Every week hundreds of copies of Nouse and Vision lie unread all around the university until the porters throw them away. There have been complaints of the flimsy nature of new Goodricke so obviously the new buildings needed a greater structural integrity. With commodity prices as high as they are, we couldn’t invest in traditional materials without going bankrupt. But when we saw the unused copies of Nouse and Vision, it was obvious to us that these could be used to shore up the structures of New Langwith.
Yet wasn’t there a great outcry from the student body? “On the contrary, many students were ambivalent about the whole process. We conducted a survey and most students said they used Nouse and Vision to ‘wallpaper’ each other’s rooms when they were bored. Others used the newspapers as origami to pass the time in lectures, as paper maché, even as toilet paper for a last minute back up. Of those who said they actually read it, most only skipped through it to see if they had got a mention, and most of those did so to avoid having to read the back of the cereal box when having breakfast”.
But surely it will be embarrassing for contributors of these newspapers for their work to be used in such a fashion? “Well, if you look around campus, copies lie everywhere, all over the student bars, on the floors with no thought for recycling. By using them as an insulator and also to help the building’s structures and foundations, we think that this gives the writers much more permanence than just being blown all about campus as they presently are. Newspapers that have amassed so many NUS awards will soon become highly regarded in the construction industry, as they will be regarded as the pedigree building material, as I’m sure its writers will agree.”
Future students will be delighted that a decision has been made to upgrade their accommodation in such economically testing times.
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