Column: MU should not wait to remove Tiger Spot
Published Aug. 31, 2007
What the hell is this bullshit?
Loyal readers, this a question I find myself asking every day, often to no one in particular. Thanks in large part to the odd stares I commonly receive, I have decided to stop vocalizing my concerns and instead harangue the campus via a multimedia blitz of newspapers, television commercials and advertisements in the back of Playboy's "Girls of the Big 12."
It has always been my mission to lift MU up from its ignominious status as a den of ignorance and iniquity. I hope the following observation, which is indeed bullshit, will serve to enlighten and improve MU as a whole. Or not.
Tiger Spot: I know this newspaper recently wrote an editorial on this issue. I didn't really bother to read it. In fact, the only reason I even pick up The Maneater is to read my own column (you would be well-advised to do the same.)
Anyway, the fact of the matter is that Tiger Spot has become MU's white elephant.
How fucking difficult is it to maintain a mosaic? The world is full of examples of well-preserved mosaics that are thousands of years old. Mosaics that have withstood not only weathering, but have also had thousands of people walk over them every day. Surely there must be a way, in this era of technology and whatnot, to prevent Tiger Spot from exploding every time it rains.
What is even more frustrating about Tiger Spot is that MU has spent about $100,000 maintaining a piece of artwork that everybody wants to get rid of.
While both the chancellor's office and the Missouri Students Association agree Tiger Spot should be removed, apparently neither of them know how, as revealed in Katie Rookstool's coverage of the fiasco in The Maneater:
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