Student 'humor'

[ellarien]

Just over a month ago, after over a year of construction, and with much fanfare, the Alumni Plaza was unveiled on the UofA campus: fountains; a cute if unrealistic sculpture; a path paved with snippets of university tradition; trees and benches; a "Heritage Hill" consisting of a banked-up oval of lawn. The whole thing, of course, is copiously annotated with the names of its sponsors. Most of the lettering is sensibly graven into the concrete, but some of it is in the form of detachable brass letters.

This lunchtime, I wandered by there and noticed a sign reading 'Her tag Hill'. Yes, someone has been stealing the brass letters. Yes, it's mildly amusing. It's also more than a little depressing that someone would carry out that kind of destruction for the sake of a weak joke.