Silly administration keeps changing their minds…
After commencing construction in mid-2025, Mt.A’s and greatest road-ruining project has been reversed until further notice, eliciting confusion from many Sackville residents. The University stated they “just don’t really want it any more”, in a press conference early last week:
“Yeah we just… realized it was kind of a bad idea” a spokesperson for the University revealed, “95 million dollars is a lot of money. It’s not like any departments around campus need more money in their budget, and think of how many unpaved parking lots we can build instead!
The decision to reverse construction initially confused investors of the project, until they realized the leftover funds could be spent on administrator bonuses. They also claimed that this was actually a net-positive for the University’s budget, as they can still raise tuition without actually delivering a tangible final product.
The construction crew received the order to “undo everything they’ve done” on Monday.
Naturally, they began doing so on Wednesday. The deconstruction is predicted to take eight months to a year, which perfectly lines up with the University’s next planned construction project: adding holes to King street parking lot.
The construction project, originally scheduled to finish in late 2065, was already a controversial topic on campus:
“Wait, so they were building a new library? I thought they were renovating the old library” a student told Argosy reporters. After the reporter explained the university’s plan to build a multi-sport complex that could turn into a library while they renovated the old library; then turn back into a multi-sport complex after the old library was done being renovated, the student said “Oh… Alright. Seems complicated.”
Non-Mt.A students have been expressing their opinions online about the project’s sudden reversal. Engineering students from across Canada have claimed that this is the first time they have been directly shown what not to do, fine arts students have been saying that the entire ordeal is a masterful commentary about the impermanence of human planning, and business students are still learning to read the articles — but when they do they’ll probably think about the sunk-cost fallacy or something.
After seeing how well received the decision has been online, the university decided to entirely ignore the concerns of the local population and announce a few more deconstruction projects. A spokesperson told Argosy reporters “Yeah we think we’re just gonna take down the small residence buildings, maybe even just all the residence buildings honestly; they tend to cause a lot of trouble.”
The University has also requested alumni to donate to the “re-deconstruction fund”, offering naming rights to pieces of rubble. Rumour has it that a mystery benefactor has already pledged the money to rebuild the building entirely, so that it can be deconstructed once more.