University of Virginia Library

Lesson In Unavailability

These men have also been taking
lessons in
unavailability-when-wanted.
Their proficiency at not being
around when desired can be
attested to by the girl who was
recently molested on campus and
called the security department for
fifteen minutes before finally
realizing she was never going to get
an answer.

If you drive a car near this
University you're going to learn how
silly the University can be, and if
you try to park that car you'll find
out right away low far advanced
the cancer of regulations has
creeped. You learn that his whole
brick and bureaucratic institution,
which is sometimes laughingly
referred to as an "academical
village", is not organized for your
benefit, but to perpetuate and
facilitate the functions of the
administration and security
department: and that the functions
of those two closely related bodies
consist of little more than
self-preservation.