Allard Hall’s half-car mystery is finally exposed
The half-car sitting in the Allard Hall Parkade. Jesse Roma/The Griff There is a chopped-in-half car sitting in Allard Hall’s parkade. What the heck is it, and what is it doing there? Deep inside the bowels of Allard Hall hides one of MacEwan University’s more puzzling artifacts: the rather filthy rear end of an early-2000s Chevrolet Cavalier. This half-car has sat here for years, tucked into a stall on the east side of Allard’s parkade. The longer it sits, the more questions are raised. Why is it there? What is, or was, its purpose? What happened to the rest of it? And if it’s going to keep sitting there, can someone just buy it from the school and put it to use in some other fashion? “It seems to literally just be collecting...
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