The Table Slam
The Table Slam The central cafeteria at Lumière University, main campus, 12:14 on a sweltering Tuesday in early September. The air was thick with overcooked coffee, limp fries, and the nervous energy of the first week back. Stainless-steel tables were sticky, plastic trays clattered, conversations bounced in half a dozen languages. Travis Boone—6’4″, 250 pounds, third-year sports science major, unofficial captain of the university rugby team, nicknamed “the Bulldozer” by his teammates—strode through the room like a freight train. He had learned last night that Ava Reyes, second-year criminology student, had filed a formal complaint with the Office of Student