By Alexander Curtis

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND: It’s been a brutal wake up call for those starting back up at Gardens Point this semester, with renovations to the iconic stomping ground leaving many without a place to study.

Although LLB students have struggled accessing to the elusive business hours only library for generations, students like self-proclaimed future judge and “human rights advocate” Link Tin are calling this the last straw.

“So what if I can just walk around the back through the computer room?” the C-block purist said. “This impediment on our constitutionally implied right to contemporary seating and tiny courtrooms is an injustice too great to bear.”

“What’s the point in paying double everyone else’s tuition if I don’t get double the libraries?” another said.

Many of these unhoused academics have been forced to shirk their elitism and take refuge among the very people they once shunned: V-block povos.

 It’s safe to say that the irony has not been lost on non-law students, with HiQ has reporting a spike in revenge-driven violence all over what used to be not-so-affectionately called “the main library”.

 “The last time I was caught talking about the limbic system in the law library, they held me down and drew ISSAC’s on my forehead. Now they’ve come crawling back and I’m out for blood.” said fourth-year bio-med student Shelly Killaw.

Rumour has it that a band of law students hiding down on level 2 have taken to silent communication over canvas discussion boards for fear of retribution. Others are calling on dual degree students to speak out as envoys for peace between the factions.

Is this the end for degree-based classism? Or will forced proximity usher in a new age of harmony?

It’s too early to tell.

But for the first time in GSJ history, we actually will have more to come… eventually. When renovations are finished in semester two.