Schuyler Adamson University

Jodi, Cammy, Robynne, and several others at the Club Week booths outside SAU's Billot Building, with campus buildings visible in the background.

### First appearance

* Chapter 1 (mentioned)
* Chapter 2

### Other names

* SAU (official abbreviation)
* Adamson U

### Notable places

* Billot Building
* Burton Hall
* Butterworth Hall
* See Notable places for more

### Associated characters

See Notable students and staff

**Schuyler Adamson University**, typically abbreviated to **SAU**, is a location in *Magical Girl Policy*. A large college in Kessia City, a significant portion of the series takes place here, and nearly all of its prominent characters study, work, and/or live on its campus.

## Description

SAU is a sizable university with over twenty thousand students. Its age is not specified, but is known to be several decades old. The massive campus is made up of numerous buildings separated by fields, with the buildings having distinct aesthetics due to being built and later remodeled at differing times. Part of the surrounding city apparently developed around the campus, as students living in SAU's dorms have no shortage of places within walking distance.

SAU is well-known and has one of the more renowned engineering programs in the United States. Students usually have to adhere to a business casual dress code in class: for men this includes a button-down shirt and slacks, while women wear a blouse and skirt of appropriate length, though skirt length is rarely enforced. There are occasions when members of athletic teams are permitted to instead wear their team's uniform, such as cheerleaders on days they have promotion duty. The dress code is not particularly popular among students.

SAU is notable for its powerful Student Association (abbreviated SAUSA), a group made up of representatives from various campus organizations that can vote on certain school policies. The dress code is one such policy, though a lack of proactive voters has caused it to remain in place despite movements to abolish it over the years. Ever since two years ago, the structure of student organizations was overhauled, with the cheer team's newly formed Promotion Squad now in charge of promoting all such groups and receiving a cut of their dues in return.

## Notable places

* **Billot Building:** Sometimes abbreviated BB. The campus's central building and one of its busiest. In addition to standard university rooms, it has a popular food court. Early in the school year, it is host to Club Week, an event where student organizations set up booths outside the building to attract new members.
	+ **Room 2137:** The campus counselor's office where Ms. Kuna works. Among its decorations are items once used by Champions she had mentored in the past. With a stone allowing one to warp to and from the Standridge Circle when activated, the office serves as a meeting place for the Spirit Guard, usually to debrief after a battle.
* **Burton Hall:** A dormitory with exclusively male residents, with guests not permitted past 11 PM.
	+ **Robert, Cory, Eli, and Dale's dorm:** An apartment initially housing Cory and Eli in one room and Robert alone in another, as Dale has yet to show. Following Rob's transformation granting him a female body, he is moved out. Dale arrives shortly afterward and thus has Rob's old room to himself. Though Robynne no longer lives here, Cory and Eli still consider it a home for her.
* **Butterworth Hall:** A dormitory with exclusively female residents, located directly across the field from Burton Hall, and is assumed to have an equivalent curfew and set of rules to its male counterpart. The two buildings are nearly identical in terms of structure and layout, though Butterworth is noted to be receiving renovations ahead of Burton.
	+ **Apartment 218:** Vivian, Kara, and Noriko's apartment, with the former two in one room and the latter in another. After transforming, Robynne is moved into Noriko's room. The living room has a decorative stone allowing instant transit between it and the Standridge Circle, so the place is often the site of Spirit Guard team meetings.
* **Checker Fine Arts Building:** The building where Robynne and Nick have an Introduction to Digital Media Arts class. It has a nonstandard layout, with a glass stairway in the center and various art pieces obscuring things.
* **Diaz Business Education Center:** The building where Robynne and Stacy have an Intro to Business class.
* **FLAC:** A building with offices for campus administrators. The "AC" stands for "Administrative Center", while the full name of "FL" is unstated, but is guessed to be named after one of the university's donors.
	+ **Room 239:** The Campus Club Administration office. Cammy is occasionally lent a key to use the office for promotion-related matters while the administrators are out, though she just as often uses it for whatever business she and her officers need to discuss.
* **Humanities building:** The building where Robert and Angela have a World History class. Appearing to have received only partial renovations in the past, it has a rather disorganized, confusing structure.
* **Kessler Building:** A building noted to receive a poor wireless signal. Vivian being in this building during the Cell-celia battle is what causes her to miss the fight.
* **Parker Center:** A building on the east side of campus that Robynne and Lilly pass by on their way to the Griever Museum.
* **SAUSA offices:** The place where Student Association officers work. Its location on campus, such as whether it is in one of the other buildings listed in this section, is unstated.
* **Studio:** A room with a photography setup, including a green screen, where Robynne and Vivian have their pictures taken for the cheer team's website.
* **Swimming pool:** A campus pool that usually requires permission to enter, but is available to anyone between 6:30 and 8:00 AM. Angela often swims here for exercise. It was the site of the Spirit Guard's battle against Saturationa, who is noted to be the only monster to have appeared on SAU grounds.
* **Tanner Griever Museum of Peoples and Cultures:** Typically shortened to just Griever Museum, it is a converted midsized house just outside the eastern edge of campus. It is not technically not part of SAU itself, but is affiliated with the school. It is assumed that Tanner Griever is the name of the building's late owner who left his home to the university. Robynne and Lilly go here for a promotion assignment they skip out on.
* **Windle Student Center:** The building where the SFEERS opening social is held.
* **Wride Science Center:** Abbreviated WSC. A building near the southern edge of campus, housing the Physiology and Geology departments. Robert first meets Stacy and Lilly while the two cheerleaders are on promotion duty here.

## History

### Background

Robert's parents met as students at SAU, where his father was a football player and his mother a cheerleader.

Two years ago, a freshman cheerleader Cammy managed to get the SAU Student Association to overhaul how student organizations are handled: all promotion for such groups are to be solely handled by the upsized cheer team's new Promotion Squad. Through this, Cammy plans to manipulate what clubs qualify for Student Council votes so she can sway policy to her benefit.

At some point after arriving at Kessia City a year and a half ago to serve as a Guide to the new Champion Angela, Kunapipi uses her human guise of Ms. Kuna to get a job as a campus counselor at SAU, with her office serving as a sort of base of operations for the Spirit Guard, with the four heroes all ending up at the university, along with Hush Corps members Nick, Will, and Noriko.

After graduating from high school, Angela enrolled at SAU with a prestigious Presidential Scholarship. She was initially a hardworking member of the Promotion Squad, but discovering now-captain Cammy's schemes with the Student Association led to the two clashing, ending with Angela getting her scholarship revoked. Thanks to a miraculously unclaimed smaller scholarship and moving into Mallory's apartment, Angela could continue to afford school.

The water monster Saturationa is the only monster that has appeared on SAU grounds. During one of Angela's routine trips to the pool, she noticed people acting with unnatural sluggishness suggesting their Investiture was drained, and called Mallory to come over. She was then grabbed by these people, who were under Saturationa's control. She was freed by Spirit Guard Tenacity, and took the opportunity to transform into Spirit Guard Valor and join the fight. Saturationa revealed herself and dragged the possessed into the pool, so Valor used a stone conjured by her Plateau of Nobility attack to lift the hostages out of the water, letting Tenacity safely finish the monster off with Intrepid Blade.

Wanting to pursue a Mechanical Engineering degree as well as connect to his late parents, Robert enrolled at SAU, though his Uncle Taylor had wanted him to attend a college closer to Deepwater. After arriving, Rob immediately befriends his roommates Cory and Eli.

### Week 1

During the first day of class, Robert meets Angela during World History. Unbeknownst to him, Angela and several other people he interacts with that week are secretly affiliated with the Spirit Guard and are trying to determine whether he can be trusted to join them, as he had glowed with the Ardent Resonance of Spirit Guard Serenity during the recent Polygal attack. Cory and Eli similarly meet with some of these people. When Rob meets the Spirit Guard at the Standridge Hill Stone Circle to learn why he glowed during the attack, he and his friends find out the heroes all happen to be fellow SAU students.

After Robert becomes Spirit Guard Serenity to defeat Day LaMode, he is left with a female form. Several actions are taken in response: Rob creates the new name of Robynne Darling, she is moved into Noriko's room, her classes are altered to accommodate the stresses of her new body and her likely having to stay in town over the summer to fight monsters, and the Hush Corps remove or alter records referring to Robert to make way for equivalent ones for Robynne. Dale happens to move in with Cory and Eli shortly after Rob is moved out, as a recent hurricane saw him staying in the Caribbean with his family longer than intended.

### Weeks 2-4

Not ready to meet people outside with her new body, Robynne skips what would've been her first day back to class to play video games. She does so the next day, where she finds she shares an Intro to Business class with Stacy a cheerleader she had inadvertently kicked a rock toward as Robert the week prior. She also has an Introduction to Digital Media Arts class with Nick, one of the Hush Corps responsible for her new documentation.

After Angela reveals to her fellow Spirit Guards the full story of her past with Cammy, the captain's powerful aura and plans to control the Student Association, and the possibility that Cammy is reincarnated from the Empress, the team decides something must be done. Without many options, it is settled that Robynne will accept Cammy's offer to join the cheer team to act as a spy. In return for agreeing to help sway the votes of the SFEERS officers to Cammy's liking, Rob is able to demand to receive only skippable promotion jobs and have Vivian granted a spot on the team as well.

## Gallery

Angela promoting during her freshman year.Vivian and Robynne eating ice cream in Rob and Noriko's room.Robynne and Noriko in their dorm's living room.Robynne meets Nick on the way to the Checker Fine Arts Building.Jodi and Cammy notice Robynne among the crowd at the SFEERS Club Week booth.Cammy inserts herself into Robynne's lunch at the Billot Building food court.In Robynne and Noriko's room, Vivian presses a dress Rob received from Cammy.Robynne meets Dale in his dorm.Cammy and Robynne negotiate the latter joining the cheer team in the Campus Club Administration office.Robynne and Vivian at a photo shoot for the cheer team.Robynne, Vivian, and Stacy on their way to the SFEERS opening social in the Windle Student Center.Robynne and Fretribution at the SFEERS opening social.Kara and Robynne in their dorm with Mallory, checking out the computer parts Rob received from Cammy.Robynne watches Will inspect her computer components.Robynne and Lilly chat instead of promoting on the eastern edge of campus.Vivian watches a movie with Cory in his dorm.