Word: marker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I enjoyed some aspects of my internship, which allowed me to meet amazing jazz players at the airport (with the big sign I made with red magic marker) and participate in seminars on how to use art to teach, I guess it wasn't a good sign that I had to draw a picture of a window by my desk to imagine the outside world. Palm trees, turquoise water, white sand, sunset--I liked my picture...
...graffiti, scrawled in black magic marker on the wall near the custodial closet on the first floor of Thayer Hall, was found by residents Monday afternoon, according to Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriss Young...
...every mile marker we sang her happy birthday. We had her bright red," she said...
...unidentified individual scrawled in magic marker on the message board of Simon's Canaday dorm room door, "Immoral E-Mail Freak...
This logic is unpersuasive. After all, what is the purpose of a memorial? What is it that elevates a memory, even a communal memory, to something more? Does simply going to war earn soldiers a monument at this university? Is a memorial merely an empirical marker, and the list of names displayed on it simply a ledger, informing posterity of those who died in which war? Or do we mean something more substantial when we build a memorial? Indeed...