Undergrads don't believe in staplers

I would say that on average 16 of the 20 homeworks I grade for my BA 71 kids each week are staple-less. I'm not sure if this is some sort of organized rebellion on behalf of the undergrad business student community... some way of sticking it to the man perhaps?

Is it sheer laziness or do they object to perforating the pristine white corners of the pages? It's quite a shock to flip through a homework assignment that is extraordinarily neatly written, every number is perfect to the decimal, and then the upper left hand corner is a jumble of folded paper.

There is one girl though... she is like my protege. Not only does she staple her paper perfectly each time... she uses red staples. Breathtaking. I will give the class some credit though... they are very ingenious in inventing new ways to keep the papers together, including but not limited to: the triple roll fold, the double fold tear-back and flip, the multi-directional fold, and my personal favorite... stealing my paper clip off the podium and putting it on their paper right in front of me. Now that takes some rocks.

Seriously though, how much is a stapler? Two, maybe three dollars? Instead I find myself stapling their papers for them. I feel like a soccer mom... and those little brats are using up all my staples.