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Fall graffiti and preview of coming analysis

Saturday, November 6, 2010

It’s taken some time, but graffiti is creeping back onto the bookstack walls in the Regenstein Library. Most notable is the wall of poetry, where “To Delmore Schwartz” by Robert Lowell has been joined by an anonymous quote: Rejoice! O Man For your achievements are great and number as the stars (read both full size) [...]

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Toast and teddy bears: creepy Crerar doodles

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

In the last couple weeks, there’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’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 [...]

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Iconographies of the UChicago-student relationship

Monday, April 5, 2010

If you asked the admissions office how to represent the relationship between UChicago and its students, you’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 [...]

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Beyond the Reg: Eckhart math library

Monday, February 8, 2010

Amidst the classrooms and offices of Eckhart Hall lies the large-ish room with large windows and two quirky balconies that houses 55,000 “research level monographs, scholarly journals, and selected textbooks in computer science, mathematics, and statistics”. Who studies there? My husband did a stint as a student assistant in Eckhart Library, and as he recalls [...]

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Beyond the Reg: the graffiti of Crerar science library

Friday, January 29, 2010

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 [...]

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