Regarding this article.

In case you forgot:

Corporate buyout! The [new building] study space naming rights have been purchased by local business tycoon Vi B. Rator, CEO and President of Operations for The Shag Stop Inc. Ms. Rator, a noted businesswoman and philanthropist in the community, may be known to students through her work with Nothing-But-Love charity homes throughout Southwestern Ontario, or as the owner of over 20 Shag Stop locations within the province. As she likes to put it “We seem to, in this day and age, have the market all tied up.” Rator hopes that students will be able to “work long into the night on their very, very hard assignments, and try to release the throbbing in their heads” in the new study space, which will be called The Shag Stop’s Engineering Dungeon.

Students are waiting for the study space, which will be opened 6/9/2017, with bated breath and hope to christen it that very day. A small shift in the budget, recommended by Ms. Rator, will see the lighting levels in the room lowered, the auto-playlist of the room’s study music reduced to Barry White’s greatest hits, and a significant increase to the structural supports of the couches, tables and chairs of the space. The purchase also comes with the right to name the orientation theme in 2017, which will be "50 Shades of Edcom."

To celebrate the announcement, The Shag Stop location at King and Columbia will be raffling off a $690 gift card. To qualify for entry to the raffle one must present the clerk with a negative STD test record from the past 48 hours. Ms. Rator hopes that students will seize this opportunity to show that its easy to be clean, while still getting dirty.

The dean was not in. But the student relations officer said:

• The article might be sexist against women


• The new building is a touchy subject right now


• Edcom (orientation leaders who dress in black, have chains, are addressed as SIR EDCOM SIR or MAAM EDCOM MAAM, and yell at people, and humiliate other orientation leaders, who VOLUNTEER themselves for special humiliation) should not linked in any way to anything remotely off-colour because the university is always on the verrrrgeeee of shutting them down and replacing them with nerds in lederhosen.


• The article is sexist.


• Engineering has a reputation as being an oversexed bunch of bigots and therefore articles (even parody articles) portraying us as such should not be published.

I am not a happy camper.

Honestly there is a lot of vaguely sex-related content in the parody edition right now. "Yanky McCranky, 2T Wanky." A guest appearance by Pintsize the anthroPC. Light bondage in the Tribunal. So why this one? Because it mentions the new building? THE OFFICIAL ENGINEERING MASCOT IS A TOOL CALLED THE RIGID TOOL.

Meeting was rescheduled. And yknow I don't have a very strong negotiating position. I have some ideas for additional oversight for the tin soldier but man seriously does the VP internal / other exec really read this stuff so late in term? Somehow I doubt it.

Fuck politics.