Did your grandparents go to the University of Guelph in 1959? Maybe they were larcenists! We’ve taken a look at our archives, and found some intriguing articles like this for our new series, Flashback Friday.
KLEPTOMANIACS ANONYMOUS
From March 11, 1959. Volume 11, No. 9.
The past few weeks have seen an intensifying of the collective urge in the students of this campus. Innumerable posters and decorations from such extravaganzas as Conversat and College Royal have found their way to the rooms of many students. This of course, is a perfectly normal situation and takes place every year. This year, however, many of these advertisements disappeared before the event took place. More serious than this is the removal of two wallets from a locked locker in the dressing rooms at the end of the rink.
This problem undoubtedly began last fall. At the beginning of the term the Men’s Athletic Committee bought several expensive permanent posters to publicize the various sports for the year. Unfortunately some students found these posters very attractive and decided that they would look better in their rooms than in Creelman Hall. More attempts to publicize Athletics brought the same result. Thus, if you believe that Intercollegiate Sports have not had sufficient support this year, very little blame can be settled on the shoulders of the Men’s Athletic Committee.
This term more and more material has been pilfered. Along with the usual posters, the kelptomaniac’s taste has broadened to include wallets, baby chickens and toilet seats. Perhaps we will soon wind up removing paintings, in imitation of proceedings at the University of British Columbia. (Some people would undoubtedly be glad to see the efforts in Massey Hall vanish). Seriously, though, this problem has changed from an annoying to a serious one. The wallets that were stolen contained many irreplaceable papers, which were worth many hundreds of dollars to the owner. The removal of important signs and posters at crucial times can determine the success or failure of some campus enterprise. The disappearance of money from the self-serve part of the student’s lounge has nearly caused the closure of this service several times.
It is time for us to do something about this problem. If this state of affairs continues, fines and other disciplinary actions will have to be imposed for even the smallest infraction.
P.B.C.
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