Editor,
I woke up last Thursday morning and the first thing I heard was the question, “Did you guys see ‘poon’ written everywhere?”
I knew already that this was certainly a more interesting morning than usual. Last Thursday, as I rose to attend my classes, I saw something juvenile; a 16 foot-tall “POON” written on the Zimmerman Library building’s front brick. Not only that, but “poon” and many related “poonisms” were written all over the campus concrete.
I wish I could say that I was offended by all this and that I was in great hopes that whoever had done it got reprimanded accordingly, but I surprisingly had none of those feelings.
I think that it’s great that people put time and effort into making my day a little more interesting. It may have been juvenile and it may have been inappropriate, but it certainly was unexpected. And whether or not people got offended, or whether or not they got a chuckle or a good laugh out of it, they still became part of the motivation for people to continue writting things like “poon” everywhere.
I personally am happy to see something that has nothing to do with political opinion written everywhere. I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m tired of having to see people’s pro-Bush or anti-war slogans written all over in chalk.
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I think that this “poon” chalking seems to just make fun of it all and I’ll drink to that.
Brett Manifold-Wheeler
UNM student
