Management students got it good.

That big, shiny, brand-new building erected last year has a secret. It’s not the caf or the classrooms (although both are quite nice) or even the multitude of plasma screen televisions lining the wall. The real hidden treasures of the Whitman School of Management are the couches in the lobby.

Any student who has been fortunate enough to treat their tired tukus to the fantastic sitting experience of those couches knows what the hype is about. Whoever’s job it was to chose furniture for the new building deserves a thorough pat on the back. Scratch that – if you see that person in a bar (or near a bar) go ahead and buy him or her a drink.

Whitman is fast gaining a reputation for its soft yet firm blue couches, but not just for sitting purposes. These couches, unlike their rivals in Bird Library, make stupendous siesta surfaces. They’re so good, rumor has it, administrators considered installing alarm clocks near them. The alarms would’ve served as a kind of preemptive strike against what they perceive as an impending pandemic of tardiness due to students napping through their classes.

Word of these stupendous butt-rests did not escape the entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises majors. Two extremely entrepreneurial students in the program have decided to make coin-operated couches available. They also plan to introduce a complimentary buffet to help the coin-couches break into the Whitman market share.