University News
Graffiti Archaeology
By Louise Sloan '88 / March/April 2018
April 1st, 2018
Senior administrator Russell Carey ’91 was touring Wilson Hall, currently under renovation, when he spotted this graffiti in the eaves. Geology concentrator Dan Snyder ’79 fessed up: He had a key to the basement, and he and pals Mark Levesque ’79 and Andy Szewczyk ’79 did some after-hours exploring, discovering a door to the attic. Dan’s key didn’t fit. But a kitchen knife did the trick. The men found a stash of porn, which they moved. “That was our downfall,” says Snyder. They’d planned to put a silhouette of Mickey Mouse in the backlit Wilson clock, visible from the green, for Campus Dance. But the magazine owner was on to them; the knife no longer cut it.