Intense weather, parking nightmares and a month-long Olympic break have made Spring Semester “interesting”?but for some students the deer running rampant on campus take the cake.
Dozens of deer, and even some moose, have made the U home sweet home. While some students enjoy seeing the cloven beasts, others take a different view.
“I can’t wait ’til I can bag me one of them big boys,” Jake McCletis said. “I saw some seven-point bucks walking around. Woo doggies!”
McCletis, along with 15 other U students, founded the Shoot ‘Em Til Their Dead Club Friday afternoon.
“How the hell could I pass an opportunity like this up?” McCletis said. “They’re everywhere.”
McCletis was disgusted with the decision to tranquilize and release the deer that broke into the West Institute Building during finals last semester.
“What the hell were they thinking? Deer, closed space, nowhere to run. Do I have to draw a flipping diagram?” he said.
Although the U strictly holds to its no-gun policy, McCletis has encountered few problems with his 30/06 rifle.
“The only time I thought I was done in for was when I saw Bernie Machen during one of my late-night hunts,” he said. “Then I saw he was lugging a buck behind him.”
After the encounter, McCletis asked Machen to become the adviser for the club. He agreed.
According to an anonymous secretary in the Park Building named Alice Jenkins, Machen’s office has undergone a major decorating shift.
“It’s so eerie. There are all of these deer horns and even a moose head above his fireplace,” she said.
Machen refused to comment officially, but off the record he had a lot to say.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled. All of this game just prancing around. Just yesterday I got one from my office window.” he said. “I even got some of my friends from SLOC to issue temporary hunting licenses. Boom, baby!”
The Club meets every Tuesday and Thursday night at 10 p.m. in front of the Park Building.
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