Room draw is over, yet there are a lot of discontented students moping around campus.
Maybe they didn't get the triple they wanted, or maybe they're in Hilleboe while all of their friends will live in Thorson. I have a way to ease some of the pain: let me stay in Kildahl.
Look, I don't really want to take someone's place in Mellby. I'm being pushed out because Kildahl is a "first-year dorm." But why would anyone ever want to leave? I know everyone there because we're literally in physical contact with each other 24 hours a day due to the ludicrously small rooms.
I'm not alone, either. Kildahl is our home and we're being forced out, just like any other peasant population forced to make way for the machinations of capitalism. I am concerned as to what might happen next year when we're forced to scatter across campus. I think it will probably be like what happens to pandas in zoos who are taken from their natural habitat and robbed of companionship.
"Once a Kildahlite, always a Kildahlite," the saying goes. Why not make it the literal truth? You want a pod in Ytterboe? Fine, I'll be camping out in Kildahl for the next four years.
Please, Pamela McDowell, hear our plea!
Ethan Hiedeman ‘13 (hiedeman@stolaf.edu) is from Kildahl, St. Olaf. He majors in community development and public planning.
"Editor's note: this article appeared in the April 30, 2010 satire issue of the Messenger."
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