Sunday, February 28, 2010
Korean isn’t in the top five for non-English languages with the most graffiti, but it’s well-represented for a language with relatively few students. (See A look at non-English graffiti for details.) I can’t even decipher the Korean alphabet, so David Yung Ho Kim and Jessica Choi have helpfully translated the graffiti I’ve been accumulating over [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
Over the last month, I’ve come to realize that my initial assessment of Crerar’s lack of graffiti probably didn’t take into account the cyclical nature of library graffiti. It’s exploded since then, leaving me to think that Crerar graffiti might be washed clean in December, just like the Reg.
Further trips into the stacks have shown [...]
As noted previously, Crerar isn’t exactly a hotbed for graffiti. Fun things show up on whiteboards sometimes (though, no doubt, this penis, for instance, was part of a legitimate core bio review session) but compared to the Reg, there’s not so much there.
One day last year, that changed. A student covered the Crerar elevator with [...]
While Regenstein is the biggest library at the University of Chicago, it’s only one of five* libraries on campus. My vague impression has been that most of the “good stuff”, from a graffiti perspective, is at the Reg, but I’ve never actually looked into the graffiti at the other libraries. As a student, I’d set [...]
