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Notions Classic: Spring 1990

Archived Classics by Semester: F1989 S1990 F1990 S1991 F1991 S1992 F1992 S1993 My first serial plot grew out of a very trivial thing. It had just been decreed that food-delivery people could not be allowed to roam the residence halls after 8:00 p.m., thus germinating the long and rich tradition of deciding who has to abandon the party for the lobby and keep a lookout for the pizza.

It had just been decreed that food-delivery people could not be allowed to roam the residence halls after 8:00 p.m., thus germinating the long and rich tradition of deciding who has to abandon the party for the lobby and keep a lookout for the pizza. This, of course, was established in the interest of security, which meant that anyone who had gone to the trouble of acquiring a bag full of subs and a hat reading "Joey's Pizzamania" for the purpose of molesting or assaulting someone in the building would find his choice of victims limited to the bored, hungry souls loitering in the lobby. The news photograph at left (with the anonymous question taped to the fence) is an image burned into some students' minds as indelibly as the eerie visage of President Eickhoff, or the oft-photographed statue of the Lion of Trenton State College crushing the Serpent of Knowledge.

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