During the night of May 11-12, a urinal in the English Department’s building at the University of Hawaii at Manoa overflowed, flooding offices on two floors and sending water down the elevator shaft into the elevator’s motor room. As the home of an English department, this building is of course subject to what’s euphemistically called “deferred maintenance,” because of course everybody says, “Aw, I always hated English.”

But inside this particular English Department building, the mentalité remains unsoiled, buoyantly afloat on its inland sea of righteousness. Here’s a lifeboat bulletin from Susan M. Schultz.

And from the dry land outside the building, here’s a location shot and a proposed motto.