Marcus Aurelius once said, “Adapt yourself to the things with which your lot has been cast.”1 And the Haverford student body has taken that to heart with their recent savvy political compromise. Facing the imminent demise of ‘Havertime,’ the beloved tradition of just not showing up to class on time, the Haverford student body, in a unanimous plenary vote, passed a resolution offering to trade it for ‘Haversoup.’ (If this is the first time you’re hearing about this, congrats. The Consensus broke a story. Take that, Clerk) What is ‘Haversoup?’ I hear the unwashed masses clamoring. Just what it sounds like: ‘Haversoup’ is the right to eat soup in class. This changes the Haverford student experience drastically. No more will you be longing for soup in the middle of your disappointment of a seminar. Gone are the days of not having any stew to get you through chem superlab. Just whip that bad boy out and start slurpin’.
Noted campus political expert Frankie Grout weighed in on the move: “The student body knew that Havertime was going to end, it’s been threatened by administration for years. Rather than just sit idly by and let it pass, they decided to exchange it for a policy that has been needed for decades. In a single stroke, Haverford students drop dusty old traditions and make themselves the soup kings of the East Coast. It’s downright brilliant.” Following the vote, the only thing left to do was hope Wendy Worner approved the measure. There was much fear she would reject it outright, or cripple it with numerous amendments. However, she accepted, with only one stipulation: “No chili, that shit ain’t soup.”
This policy will be the first time Haverford students have been able to eat soup in class since 1919, when President William Comfort banned the practice for fear of increasing undesired minorities. “I fear that allowing the student body to consume soup in class may lead to increased enrollment of Hibernians, ‘Friends of Dorothy’, and Anarchists” the president opined at the time. Today’s president, Wendy Worner, had this to say: “I, Wendy Worner, the champion of progress, have lifted the ban on soup. At long last, we have achieved freedom for those of Irish descent, the Queer community, and Anarchists to eat soup whenever. Even though the work of DEI is never ‘completed’, we have basically overcome.” What a beautiful message from our brave leader.
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