A Snevets Institute of Technology relic was spotted on a recent episode of Storage Wars, leaving many students wondering if it would ever make a return, and even more confused about what it is in the first place.
In an episode from earlier this year, the show was visiting a local Jersey City self storage facility when during the auctioning of a particular unit, one of the bidders noticed something strange in the back of the garage, a bunch of old castle bricks and a sign labeled “Welcome to Snevets Institute of Technology.” After paying almost $4200 for the locker, and unable to check the interior prior to the auction, the new owners were anxious to get inside and see what the bricks were.
To their surprise, the back of the unit contained more than 30 crates full of old bricks, along with an I.O.U. labeled “I owe you one gatehouse – Narfarvar.” After the buyers called “their guy” to identify and value the bricks, they realized what they had come across.
Disassembled in early 2019, before almost all current undergraduates were students, the Snevets gatehouse was an icon of the campus and formerly the entrance to the Snevets family estate in 1835. It was carefully deconstructed and packaged away, to be rebuilt after the completion of the University Center Towers, though there seems to have been some mismanagement that led to it falling into the wrong hands.
After running over budget on the Towers project, Snevets was unable to pay for the storage locker containing the gate and it was then sold at auction. President Narfarvar suggested raising tuition again to cover the cost and to blame the increase on inflation, but the idea was shot down.
After learning of the bricks’ origins, the bidders sold them for an undisclosed amount to an anonymous online user known as “GIANTFOREHEAD.” Willing to turnover the brick to the university, their only demand was that the Towers be renamed to the “GIANTFOREHEAD Family Towers”. Whether or not they give in to the demands of this basement dwelling loser, hopefully Snevets will be able to get hold of the bricks once again and rebuild the gatehouse like they promised.
Snevets gatehouse bricks in the back of a storage unit
Disclaimer: this article is a part of The Stupe and is satire
