I got some pictures back tonight. I'll post them sometime, but for now, there (on the right) is a preview.
Yep, it's a door. Except that it's not. In the basement of the Parks Library here on campus, there's an ordinary-looking classroom, with windows, and a wall plaque declaring the room number, and all the usual things you would expect to see on the outside of a classroom. Except a door. Or any other way to get into the classroom, for that matter. I'm guessing it's part of some CIA plot, because sketchy-looking sealed rooms in government buildings are so much more interesting if you imagine agents in black suits crawling through cooling vents to sneak into them.
Yesiree.
The rest of the roll is better, I promise. It even features Joan(s) as the Hand of God!

I'm going to cite the ongoing Steve Skutnik "saga" mentioned in the previous entry as evidence that sometimes it may be best to just shut up and listen. When we left off, Skutnik hadn't been picked for a special GSB spot, and two senators were filing "lawsuits" with the GSB Supreme Sourt (the government of the student body has a judiciary?) in support of the maligned physicist. In a special hearing held Monday night, the Supreme Court quickly tossed the first lawsuit, and probably would have gone after the second if the complainant behind that one hadn't withdrawn it on the spot. Soon afterwards, the Daily's Editorial Board (which Skutnik is a member of at times) issued a bitter statement that, by some fluke, appeared right alongside a letter explaining why Skutnik was turned down in the first place.

Skutnik's case is a rather extreme one, but I hope it makes my point (whatever it is) clearer, and provides an insight into both Iowa college life and the reason why I am going to stop talking now.