Diag Vandalism
A buddy of mine told me a couple days ago that the Block M in the Diag was missing. Turns out someone tried to pry it out of the ground, but only managed to make minor damage. The M was removed for repairs, and should be back soon.
The question seems to be - Sparty or drunken M Frat boys?
http://www.ur.umich.edu/0809/Aug17_09/44.php
August 28th, 2009 at 12:03 PM ^
Townies.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:24 PM ^
Yep, as a townie, I can attest - we love vandalism and stealing.
At least they didn't succeed. That would have been pretty terribly disheartening.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:30 PM ^
I guess I will mention I mean no disrespect to most of the townies, it's just those 17 year old ones that broke oh so many windows.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:04 PM ^
It was him. His power is spreading.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:06 PM ^
I hope they catch the bastards and put them in prison for a couple years!
August 28th, 2009 at 12:09 PM ^
There is absolutely no reason and no fraternity stupid enough to do that.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:18 PM ^
Because if there's one thing fraternities avoid at all costs, it's stupid stunts.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:29 PM ^
What they do avoid is effort. As a fraternity member while on campus, I will say things get stolen, but they are small and easily returnable. 99.9% of all fraternity guys wouldn't deface such a symbolic piece of the school, much less put the effort in to move such a largely-stationary object.
Instead, they would focus on stupid things like furniture, plaques, pictures, and dry erase board markers.
Case in point, my entire undergrad time I talked about removing ADPi's lion from their front yard and placing it somewhere openly obvious. There is no way I'd ever do it though as 1) that's probably some high level of buglary 2) that thing would be so hard to move it wouldn't be worth the effort.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:34 PM ^
I agree- I was also in a Fraternity during my time there and stealing the M would never have happened. Aside from that taking waaay too much effort, none of us would ever have defaced an important university symbol. We may have been drunken idiots but we had a lot of school pride, too.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:40 PM ^
Pumpkins off the front porch of everybody in Burns Park for example. Carved by wee small girls!
...appeared in front of the neighborhood frat the next party night.
Now back to football.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:01 PM ^
That Lion would have been stolen already...
August 28th, 2009 at 1:23 PM ^
i aggree with FA that we are far too lazy to do something that hard plus i personally respect that M .... furthermore if frat boys did steal/vandalize it is generally aimed at the other greeks on campus and generally is made out to be a joke ... like the lion example ... furthermore i think this crime should be punishable by a tar and feathering to take place the week of the state game
August 28th, 2009 at 12:09 PM ^
They *can* be extremely agressive.
okay, I'm kidding.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:23 PM ^
State students usually just try to paint it green. I guess these guys were either extra ambitious or extra stupid. Or both.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:23 PM ^
But I'd doubt it was a fraternity thing. Mainly because students aren't on campus right now. And they're students. Male students who tend to have an inordinate amount of school pride.
HowEVA, it could be a Sparty fraternity prank. Now that I'd buy.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:26 PM ^
One thing is for sure: alcohol was certainly not a part of this brilliant plan.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:51 PM ^
Someone failed their first blue book exam and wanted revenge
August 28th, 2009 at 12:54 PM ^
maybe it was a dumb wmu fan, who saw the M upside down and thought it was a "w."
August 28th, 2009 at 12:56 PM ^
Did anyone see the story on channel 4 during the 6pm news last night? They made it seem like the M had in fact been stolen, then interviewed some students about it. They didn't say it had been removed for repairs until after they went back to the newscaster in the studio. Theybfreaked me out for a few minutes.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:00 PM ^
Clearly it was those fucking Geuxphers.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:07 PM ^
[Please note that I never owned or thought about buying one of those t-shirt abortions. Only a ritard would do so.]
August 28th, 2009 at 1:16 PM ^
http://r-word.org/
although, i also think those shirts are obnoxious.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:18 PM ^
As I've posted before, it's Intellectually Disabled
August 28th, 2009 at 2:02 PM ^
That's retarded.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:07 PM ^
that's cold.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:02 PM ^
Seen it? If not, then perhaps you're missing the joke.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:29 PM ^
spartys are too stupid to drive to AA in the first place. Now if it was a burning couch or car then spartys are the culprit
August 28th, 2009 at 2:00 PM ^
Lets dynamite the Spartan statue!
August 28th, 2009 at 2:57 PM ^
I hope thats not some guy in a snow plow truck with some diabolical plan to strip family values from the entire team and use the stolen property to stroke his genius.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:18 PM ^
Alright, I'm late to this party, I know, but I feel the need to comment, since I've invested a lot into that tarnished old M. As an ROTC cadet during my four years at UM, I spent countless hours polishing that thing, which was fun, since it only took two days of people walking on it to undo the work, haha. Then I proceeded to propose to my then-GF on it, which worked out great since, now, I score free points every time they show it on TV while we are watching a football game (win!).
All I can say is that I'm very relieved that the vandals failed to pry it completely off and steal it. I may have had to go on a personal man-hunt. I look forward to seeing a repaired and polished-up diag M on TV this Saturday!