Large cardboard boxes outside room 325 full of extra law

Hans Olo, The Stool

An extra pallet of law was accidentally delivered this past Wednesday along with the College’s standing weekly order. When the mistake was discovered, administration officials decided to keep it, but storage quickly became a problematic issue.

“As you know, William Mitchell is a law school,” said Director of Plant Operations Dale Finnely. “We need a constant supply of law shipped to us every week if we want to put out a product that our students will enjoy and find interesting. We knew we’d be able to use [the extra pallet] eventually, but we needed a place to store it.”

Storage space at Mitchell is at a premium according to Finnely, and there simply was not room to put the boxes anywhere else. “All of our law storage tanks were full from the regular order, and the emergency tank is, of course, always full. None of our other storerooms would fit the boxes – wine, food, and tables take up a lot of space. So we had a meeting, and decided that the hall space outside room 325 would be the most inconspicuous place to store the boxes.”

Finnely told The Stool an early proposition to paint the boxes to resemble the brick wall against which they lean was nearly passed, but concerns that red paint could not be located in time quashed the idea. “I think these valuable boxes add a sense of industrial elegance to the third floor that wasn’t there before. We might start storing full trash bags there when we burn through all that extra law,” he said. “Who knows.”