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The Sexual Palimpsest of Brown University’s “Rock”

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Brown University’s Rockefeller Library is reminiscent of UChicago’s Regenstein. They’re both rather ugly from the outside, they both have two basements, they both have nicknames (the “Rock” and “Reg”, respectively), and they’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 [...]

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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 at [...]

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Hieroglyphic sex graffiti

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Rarely does a single piece of graffiti merit its own blog post. This morning I found one such piece of graffiti on the 4th floor, next to the ad for (subsequently reverted) Wikipedia vandalism, near the Facebook thumbs up.
The second row of hieroglyphs in the image to the right (click to see larger) were written [...]

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