Breaking: Mystery Smell Hits NYU Law Library!!!
And at the peak of final exam studying, too! Our Greenwich Village correspondent reports:
I don't know what it is, but it smells like the law library is in a dump. I gave up and left an hour ago. The whole basement of the library was EMPTY. But there were holdouts in the corners and the top floor in Vanderbilt.We don't know what the smell IS....
And from another NYU source:
People have been thanking me for confirming that they weren't nuts. We've asked the librarians [about the mystery smell], but they have no answers.
From a commenter:
It smells like a Dumpster / port a potty combo, with an emphasis on the Dumpster. Think rotting trash in warm weather.
DEVELOPING...
Comments
It smells disgusting in here. I think I'm gonna hurl.
Posted by: NYU 1L | December 15, 2006 04:08 PM
It's a ploy to affect the curve by interfering with studying. Ingenious!
Posted by: NYU XL | December 15, 2006 04:11 PM
NYU 1L: Please describe the smell in more detail. Does it smell like a portapotty? The garbage-filled alley behind a busy restaurant? A high school locker room?
Inquiring minds wanna know...
Posted by: Anonymous | December 15, 2006 04:17 PM
It smells like the rotting of yet another NYUicide.
Poetic justice for those who are rude to ALMIGHTY SCALIA.
Posted by: humorgasm | December 15, 2006 04:27 PM
More like a Dumpster / port a potty combo, with an emphasis on the Dumpster. Think rotting trash in warm weather.
Posted by: narf | December 15, 2006 04:30 PM
Well, with the ubiquity of WL and LEXIS, students can't resort to taking razor blades to the books in the library anymore.
I suppose relieving oneself in the library is the cutthroat law student tactic of the 21st Century.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 15, 2006 04:30 PM
Humorgasm: Different library. It's Bobst Library, not the law library, where students have committed suicide.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 15, 2006 04:32 PM
Maybe Eben Moglen was paying a visit from Columbia?
Posted by: Anonymous | December 15, 2006 04:46 PM
can't ya just smell the pissed on sharkmeat...
Posted by: silverjuice | December 15, 2006 07:35 PM
I think it's time to stop inventing nice similes. That library, suddenly, overwhelmingly, and without warning, smelled like being inside of an enormous sewage pipe. It smelled life raw sewage, wafting through the air. And it spread quickly. When they finally "fixed it," you could still smell the sewage smell but with an overlay of chemical disinfectant. So gross.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 16, 2006 04:03 PM