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		<title>Arizona State University: where literacy comes to die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent works of fiction, including Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Anathem and Mike Judge&#8217;s Idiocracy, depict a future where traditional literacy has become a niche skill, and the general populace relies on simple symbols for written communication. An examination of the graffiti of Hayden Library at Arizona State University leaves one with the impression that such a scenario [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/08/01/arizona-state-university-where-literacy-comes-to-die/</link>
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		<title>The Sexual Palimpsest of Brown University&#8217;s &#8220;Rock&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brown University&#8217;s Rockefeller Library is reminiscent of UChicago&#8217;s Regenstein. They&#8217;re both rather ugly from the outside, they both have two basements, they both have nicknames (the &#8220;Rock&#8221; and &#8220;Reg&#8221;, respectively), and they&#8217;re both filled with graffiti mostly written in literate1 English.
In just three hours combing through the study areas in the Rock stacks, I collected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/06/20/sexual-palimpsest-of-brown-universitys-rock/</link>
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		<title>A note on blog updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My goal has been to write something about graffiti every week, and update the blog accordingly. As you may have noticed, it&#8217;s just not happening. Instead of spurring me to action, that goal has just left me feeling guilty as I miss one week then another, and begin to resent the extent to which this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/06/20/a-note-on-blog-updates/</link>
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		<title>The fall and rise of the B-level men&#8217;s bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime between April 13th and today, the great purge came to the B-level men&#8217;s room in the Regenstein Library, clearing away the philosophical wordplay that made it truly the nerdiest place on earth. (Cue the sad trombones.) But fear not, the stalls are not bare&#8211; even though the graffiti has had no more than a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/05/19/the-fall-and-rise-of-the-b-level-mens-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>Return of the hieroglyphs: M2 + Egypt = Awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The students responsible for the now world-famous* hieroglyphic sex graffiti have returned to express their love for Egypt.
I ran this one by my expert Egyptologist, and in addition to translating it they had some fascinating remarks about the characters they chose to render &#8216;Egypt&#8217;:
Egypt here is written with the &#8220;foreign land&#8221; determinative  (hill-shapes) &#8211;when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/05/11/return-of-hieroglyphs-m2-egypt-awesome/</link>
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		<title>Toast and teddy bears: creepy Crerar doodles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple weeks, there&#8217;s been a couple noteworthy doodles on the blackboards in the Crerar the study rooms that strike me as a bit creepier than anything I&#8217;ve seen in the corresponding A-level spaces of the Reg, or elsewhere on campus. The first was in one of the green rooms on the third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/05/04/toast-and-teddy-bears-creepy-crerar-doodles/</link>
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		<title>The latest from the library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 5th week, which means more students are heading to the Reg to study for midterms. (Or not study, as the case may be.) During the last few months, the Crescat Graffiti blog has ventured beyond the Regenstein Library to explore the graffiti in Harper (mostly-not-my-gender) bathrooms, in far-flung dorms, in other campus libraries, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/04/28/the-latest-from-the-library/</link>
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		<title>The ritual graffiti of Burton-Judson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who aren&#8217;t familiar with the Regenstein Library have asked me whether writing graffiti there is some sort of student ritual. I&#8217;ve assured them it isn&#8217;t&#8211; it&#8217;s just a manifestation of student stress and boredom, and/or perhaps a small creative outlet, that takes place in the building where a lot of students study. But these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/04/20/the-ritual-graffiti-of-burton-judson/</link>
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		<title>Breckinridge: where men become legends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When listing off UofC dorms, Breckinridge Hall (closed, re-opened, located next to International House) is easy to overlook. From a graffiti perspective, however, it&#8217;s a stand-out. As far as I know, no other dorm has spawned a cryptic graffiti meme (Who is Davin Reed was all the rage in the Reg around 2007; here&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/04/13/breckinridge-where-men-become-legends/</link>
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		<title>Iconographies of the UChicago-student relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you asked the admissions office how to represent the relationship between UChicago and its students, you&#8217;d probably hear some beautiful and poetic cliches involving drinking from fountains of knowledge, breathing in the sweet scent of wisdom, basking in the glow of collegiality among some of the greatest minds in the country.
If you look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crescatgraffiti.com/2010/04/05/iconographies-of-the-uchicago-student-relationship/</link>
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