Laws. They’re crazy things. Why follow them? Well, supposedly, society wouldn’t function properly without them. So when we here at the ‘ol Free Press found out that Massachusetts has a couple of ridiculous archaic laws, we decided to search through the Boston University consitution and seek out some of our school’s more bogus laws.
– 1978: School of Management students must smoke one cigarette and drink one Starbucks coffee per day.
– 1957: Any persons traversing along Commonwealth Avenue must stop and wait for traffic to pass before crossing the street.
– 1980: While attending the High School College of General Studies, students must suck a pacifier and sit in a high chair during each class.
– 1986: The Boston Red Sox shall not win a World Series after 1918. And Boston University students shall not celebrate in any fashion whatsoever if this law were to be overturned.
– 2002: The Boston University Student Union shall have a working constitution.
– 1889: People stopping in the middle of the sidewalk while other people are walking on Commonwealth Avenue shall face a beheading.
– 1957: iPods, though not thought of for another 45 years, will be stricken from the land by leeches.
– 1943: All Boston University students shall buy war dining point bonds, and if low on bonds, shall buy war convenience point bonds.
– 1970: The independent student “rag,” created this May 1, shall die a horrible death by May 1, 1972.
“Breakin’ the law, breakin’ the law.”
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