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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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On smoking, sperm, and spray paint: a mural behind the Reg

Sunday, October 3, 2010

I’ve got to hand it to Facilities: painting over the graffiti in the Regenstein Library at the end of last school year has done wonders for keeping the stacks pristine all summer and into the start of this school year. In fact, even now there seems to be only one piece of new graffiti on [...]

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Return of the hieroglyphs: M2 + Egypt = Awesome

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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 ‘Egypt’: Egypt here is written with the “foreign land” determinative (hill-shapes) [...]

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The latest from the library

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

It’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 [...]

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The decline and fall of the B-level men’s room

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

It’s been about a month since I last wrote about the B-level men’s room (first post can be found here, last month’s update here, though I’ve been back a couple times since). The decline has begun: philosopher wordplay has descended into more penis drawings and an attempt to turn an anti-gay slur into a pun. [...]

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