After hearing the commotion and with curiosity taking control, Henry stepped outside the building and watched as one of the figures placed a hessian LSS tote bag over the mysterious figure’s head while the other used a rolled up LSS Rugby top to tie the figure’s hands behind his back. The pair then frogmarched the figure back into the building. Before he could fully process what was going on, someone tapped him on his shoulder. It was Cameron, the LSS Competitions Director.
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Words by: felix eldridge
Having stayed behind a little later than normal for a Thursday night to finish an assignment, Henry started the trek to his bus stop from the Law Library. As he reached the ground floor of the Ligertwood building, however, he was almost knocked over by a figure who emerged from the elevator holding a brown package, sprinting to the exit. Before he could process who this was or why he was in such a hurry, two figures in dark trench coats dashed down the stairs from a higher floor and crash tackled him just outside the building.
“Sorry you had to see that mate. You’re Henry right?” “Yeah” Henry replied warily. “Well, I’m sure you’re wondering what that was. Basically that guy was responsible for selling scalped Law Dinner tickets. We’re just seeing that justice is enforced by preventing their sale.”
“Oh okay, and that’s normal around here at this time of night?” “Oh, look we deal with all sorts of quasi judicial enforcement around the Law School” replied Harry. “We handle everything from scalping tickets and courses, preventing cheating in exams to blasphemous comments about Frank De Zwart, Dale Stephens, Cornelia Koch, Peter Burdon, David Plater” Cameron paused, brows furrowed slightly. “Actually come to think of it, most of what we do is fight blasphemy about lecturers. Anyway, that’s what we do”. Henry, having recovered slightly from the shock of the chase, now started looking Harry up and down sceptically. “Oh yeah, where do you operate then? You can’t possibly enforce these things throughout the entirety of the law school.” “Ill show you.” Henry followed the Director to the room adjacent to classroom 1.10, where the St Raphs cart is stored during the evenings. After feeling around on one of the walls inside the room, Cameron pushed a section of the wall which caused the entire wall to swing aside, revealing a staircase down. Mouth agape, Henry followed Cameron down the stairs where he was met with the sight of a cavernous room, lined with computer banks, smaller rooms and packed with people.
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