EXCLUSIVE: Main quad will host ‘king size replica’ of The Morrow Plots
This is too much
We’re losing part of the quad – to corn, says a new UIUC manifesto. The document, obtained by The Tab, says part of the main quad we know and love will be reclaimed for “agricultural posterity”.
For decades The Morrow Plots has been revered as one of UIUC’s greatest landmarks. The school proudly owns the oldest field in the United States and the second oldest in the world. Because the plot is rather small, the University has decided to build a replica of it on a sectioned off area of the main quad.
Because of the strict rules against trespassing on the plot, the replica will serve as a way for students to admire it without being punished.
April Loof, a student in the College of Agriculture, told The Tab Illinois that this project will increase Illinois’s already great love for corn. With the rain Champaign-Urbana has endured over the past week, the grass of the quad will be in perfect condition to start planting the new plot.
The University hopes students will understand the importance of maintaining UIUC’s reputation as a great school for agriculture, and will not mind the use of the quad. Even with Illinois’s small budget for schools, construction of the plot will begin this month, April. You can’t throw shade on the corn.
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