Since returning back to school for the fall semester, students and faculty noticed more buzzing noise than usual.
It is the season of love, for cicadas, that is. Their mating song becomes so loud it is distracting to some.
The Chancellor, Robert Hemenway, said, “Having these pests fornicating all over campus and Lawrence is disrupting the students daily lives and causing students undue anxiety.”
Some students find the noise so distracting that they have trouble concentrating on their work.
Officials are unsure of how to combat the problem. Cicadas pose no dangerous threat to any of the students and cicada insecticides do little to deter their mating calls.
Chief of the Lawrence police department, John J. Romero, spoke about the problem, “Since the Lawrence Pest Control Company has nothing to kill these insects; we are attempting to find a way. We desperately need to put an end to this horrible infestation but the chances of us finding a solution seems slim to none.”
Religious radicals take a different approach to the cicada problem and account for the large numbers of insects to another origin.
One man believes that because of the immoral behavior of the people in Lawrence that a higher power may be punishing them and the annoyance might not end.
Fred Phelps, a Baptist pastor, claims, “Clearly all Lawrence residents and students are doomed to the depths of hell where Satan will rule because of their sinning ways. God will cast these pests on Lawrence until the sinning ends.”