A Proposed History of
the School
In The Beginning…
As the story goes, about
a decade ago, at the height of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” craze, a
professor and his protegé, Chad Tessier, decided to create a new strain of
students. This new breed of
over-achieveing, super students was created to serve several purposes: (1) to raise
the overall integrity of the univeristy; (2) to improve the work of current
students who – when confronted with such competition – inevitably worked more; and
(3) to carry out the will of university officials, specifically by fighting
crime.
Following the examples
of the TMNT, the two exposed a few rabbits (for turtles are rare here in Potsdam)
to high concentrations of beta and gamma irradiation. These mutant bunnies were allowed to fully
develop into human-like organisms on the forbidden CAMP 4 floor. Soon, having reached the desired form, these mutants
proliferated. Initially, they served the
purposes for which they had been created; a new school had been created for them,
to legitimize the operation, called cleverly “The Clarkson School.”
However, it eventually became evident that
the plan had worked too well. The mutant
students worked extremely well and were excessive in both diligence and
precosity. Their overbearing success
overwhelmed current students, forcing them to just give up. The person left in charge of the new breed of
students – Chad Tessier, aka Splinter (left) – was no longer able to control
his creations.
To this day, they
continue to proliferate and dominate the school. The lack of restriction allows them to slowly
– but definitely – take over the university.
In a sense, Clarkson is a breeding ground from which these mutants spring
forth into the world and which they, the “Schoolies,” use at their own personal
disposal.
Or so goes the rumor…
