Spotted in the Commons dining hall.

I go to a ridiculous school.

You know a major world leader’s in town when…

Black helicopters? Really, Yale?

Six Yale Police Department squad cars, responding to what appears to be a traffic stop. Only four are clearly visible (the SUV to the right, the sedan to the far left, and the two sedans at center); the other two are hidden behind the two sedans double-parked in the middle of the photo.

What’s funnier is that I think we only have six squad cars. C’mon: Really, Yale?

The last ingredient is “poultry seasoning”.

There are at least five signs directing patrons to the side entrance of an almost-entirely-closed library. Kudos to Yale for keeping us informed, I guess, but did so much of the renovation budget have to go to temporary signs?

Bingham Hall, one of the freshman dorms, apparently lost part of a drainpipe over the summer. Yale Facilities’ solution? Install a plastic one that matches neither the color nor shape of the original drainpipe. The original Bingham drainpipe has actually been stuffed in to its new plastic counterpart, its metal warped and crinkled by this move. (Click through photo for detail.)

Granted, this particular drainpipe isn’t on one of the main façades of Bingham, but it’s visible enough that anyone walking by on Chapel Street would notice it. I took this picture a week ago—well before freshman move-in—and our friend the plastic drainpipe is still funneling water. This stop-gap measure seems to have become permanent, however painfully out-of-step with the 1928 Collegiate Gothic architecture of Bingham Hall. Really, Yale?