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Lunch on the food-court quad

four named cells for the campus ibis and the outdoor-furniture rule they now govern

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities has the grounds duty officer classify every white ibis at eight food-court courtyards into four named cells --- Kept, Raiders, Guests, Lifters --- and withholds outdoor-furniture refresh from any school whose Lifter count exceeds its Raider count for two consecutive teaching weeks. Tray-dumping before the count recodes the cells without reducing the birds; the rule is now standing practice.

AuthorsSunniva Balogun, Anneke Tolan, Kwame Lindqvist
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.gkk7xp
Pages6
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_gkk7xp,
  author       = {Sunniva Balogun and Anneke Tolan and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {Lunch on the food-court quad: four named cells for the campus ibis and the outdoor-furniture rule they now govern},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.gkk7xp},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-grounds-duty-gkk7xp/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}