By Carl Peaslee • November 19th, 2008

Editor’s Note: Carl Peaslee’s StagHen is just too good to pass up, and I also feel exceedingly guilty for rejecting his Forum Fellow application. Thus, we’ll be beginning to post highlights from his new site. As you should be able to tell, his work is more in line with the Onion than with, say, the BBC. If you have your own blog that you would like to syndicate in this fashion, let us know.

Scrippsies Displaced by Housing Crisis Advised to “Sleep Around”

Scripps College administrators have been examining their options this fall as the women’s college has faced unprecedented logistical issues surrounding housing.

Because of an unexpectedly large enrollment, many Scripps students have been left homeless. Despite Scripps’ agreement with CMC to provide emergency dorm space many women will be forced to arrange their own housing.

To remedy the situation Dean Morgans of Scripps sent out an email to dispossessed students providing them with suggestions on how to best obtain living quarters.

“Scripps women are resourceful and smart.” Dean Morgans said, “If they can’t find some place to spend the night, they just aren’t trying.”In Morgan’s email were included a number of tactics for students having trouble finding a place to sleep.

“Students may need to resort to less conservative manners of dress in order to successfully persuade male students to allow them to temporarily reside in their rooms.” wrote Morgans. “We know that advising the student body to ’sleep around’ is unorthodox but we feel it is ultimately the most efficient manner to solve this crisis.”

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