A critical, yet playful, exploration of the culture of Bishop’s University, drawing on the perceptions of students, alumni, faculty and administration, as well as the wider community of Lennoxville, to reflect on the images, narratives and rituals of the university and question the ways in which these things are or are not meaningful. The aim was to move past the simple shared rhetoric about university life and speculate on the many, often hidden, ways these aspects of university culture act on everyone in and around the school.