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a story:

Scene:
a major national football-factory powerhouse of a university in an otherwise not-described huge Southern California city

Time:
Paleolithic Era

Stage:
University President’s Office

Dramatis Personae:
President (in one of his rare sober interludes)
Delegation of about 20 serious students (not on the world-famous football team)

Scene 1 (only scene):
Students petition President for improvements in their dormitory, which has been double-condemned by the Board of Health (Trojan-sized, cardinal and gold colored cockroaches marching up and down the hallways in attack salients) and the City Engineer’s Office (bricks falling out of the walls).

President rejects petition and shoos pesky students back to Stoned Hall.

Students complain that the University is about to spend $2 million on a brand new building just to house its football trophies, also that the football players come around Stone-Age Hall at all hours to collect impressive wads of $20 bills that are secretly dished out to them, apparently at will, in a tiny little un-marked office downstairs.

President, raising his voice while raising his well-fed arse from his very well-padded throne,
“you boys are a liability to this college. you cost us more than you pay us. those football players make us money. and the new trophy building will attract more rich alumni to campus who will donate even more money to this operation. so get back to your da*med books and cockroaches and just stuff it!”

Boys ushered out of President’s Office as President opens his beautiful big mahogany desk to bring out his silder liquour service...

Curtain closes. End of play.

or something like that.

In other words, there is very little new under the sun...
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(no, i didn’t play football in college....)