Word: grafitti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trek begins at Pre-Med Row, situated in the bowels of Cabot Science Library. Once a hotbed of unauthorized activity, the white desks are mostly scrubbed clean, leaving grafitti seekers to squint for any semblance of scribble. Curiously, most of what has survived the soap and water is scrawled in Cabot's top floor cubicles. The grafitti urges those who lament of homework, Harvard and heartbreak to "get some therapy." Compassion is low for those who complain, and for the frustrated library frequenters who ask "Where can I go to get head?" the cryptic yet conscise response, "a garbage disposal...
...bottom of the letter, however, were the words "RCC/sts" presumably a reference to the Sojourner. Truth Squad a mysterious group that had taken responsibility for the earlier outbreaks of grafitti on the Law Schools campus...
...demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk now can comfortably encompass the salty sensitivity and social speculation of Willie Nile's Hard Times in America (Polaris) as well as the rap-inflected rage of the Native American activist John Trudell on AKA/ Grafitti Man (Ryko). It has a newer, wider compass, and, as ever, Bob Dylan is magnetic north...
...Save jobs, shoot an environmentalist"--grafitti scrawled inside a bathroom at an Oregon campground--thus came as no surprise...
...Robert Bly and the men's movement, macho grafitti displays may seem passe. Where's all the writing from the new, sensitive males? Not in Harvard bathrooms, evidently, where men tend to discuss sex and sexuality with violent overtones...