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After noting down the best items, the group trooped off in search of other bars and other public lavatories. It was a typical field trip for Anthropology 2675-2, "Graffiti: Past and Present," which Reisner teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Though conducted with much low good humor, the course is anything but frivolous. The graffito, explains Reisner, "is always a sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations. It is a twilight means of communication between the anonymous man and the world...
Classes begin with students presenting their homework-arresting specimens of graffiti that they have collected during the week. Among recent, and printable, student finds: "Life is a hereditary disease," found at the Princeton Uni-versity student center; "Sacred cows make great hamburger," from an East Side cafe...
Webster's describes "graffiti" as being "a rude inscription or drawing found on walls or stones." However, graffiti for the contest can take any form, be it on a sign, bumper sticker, or toilet paper...
Howard Anderson, manager of the medical division of the Shintron Company, discovered the popularity of graffiti when he found that blank stickers which happened to be in the Shintron building were disappearing with amazing speed...
...Shintron Company gave some suggestions for exemplary graffiti: "Wallace, Stand Fast--You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Sheet"; "Draft Students--Leave Beer Alone"; "Richard Nixon Sold This Used...