LOL!  Report back when you are through.  Take a camera and send a few photos my way, will ya?

BTW, if anyone wants to see something in particular on the sidewalk, please post it. I'll see what I can do. Remember I'm not an artist though (see No Quarter by JGH)

Thanks for the name and the comments. I feel appreciated.

Night Chalker, do you take requests?

I rather fancy the idea of Shelby 's head with dark glasses on saying "Respect my Authoritai!"   Like Cartman, on South Park.

You ought to sign with NC sort of like Zorro did.

Please pen a tribute to Virginia Newton

Sweet Virginia

...and just because people are in the mood to post lyrics tonight here is one that has some poignancy of late.

I want you to come on, come on down Sweet Virginia,
I want you come on, honey child, I beg of you.
I want you come on, come on down, you got it in you.
(honey child) Got to scrape the s**t right off you shoes.

Thank you Rolling Stones

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Originally posted by: Invictus
" Chalking is less damaging to university property than putting soap in the fountain. Does anyone here remember Fred Horn & his posters on the side of Forrest County Hall years ago?"

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Soap in the fountain....hmmmmm....

(Naw, I'm just kidding.  I wouldn't do that.)

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Originally posted by: BogusBoy
" Do I ever! One night some guys knocked him off his tall ladder when he was putting a sign on that or College Hall. THOSE were the days! That sign policy went away with no tears shed, that is for sure. I remember his huge signs were up there on one Homecoming day even! But, you know, it's also a testament to Lucas, in my opinion, that he would be secure enough in his Presidency and his abilities to allow that to happen and not make heads roll. We miss you, sir. (Lucas, that is... not Horn)"

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Originally posted by:
"C'mon, guys.  Tell us the whole story.  Time, place, context, players, etc.  I have never heard anything about this."

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Back in the 1980's, maybe 86 or 87 or so. Horn had permission via the sign policy to place HUGE signs on certain buildings, commonly College Hall and Forrest County Hall. I remember College Hall the most, because I had classes there.

There was one fall when he put up huge signs criticizing something and all the alumni who came back to campus saw these awful signs on USM buildings that totally disrespected the USM administration, etc. There are probably photos of this in old yearbooks and printz newspapers.

One night, as I remember it, some frat guys knocked him off his ladder. He did this stuff in the middle of the night, though it was ok by the sign policy. That led to a bunch of huff, but I don't think anyone ever paid a price for it.

Horn was later beaten up around the old Hattiesburg rail station, in the downtown area, around 2:00 a.m. one morning. That is sad, of course, to have crime in Hattiesburg, but one could honestly wonder what he was doing walking around there early in the morning like that.

Anyway, bad luck apparently followed him. ... also, he bought these HUGE full-page ads in the Printz to spout off about his views, and they were AWFUL. He had some cartoon skills and used them freely, and just trashed everyone. Go back to Printz newspapers around 1985 to see, perhaps it's 1984, I'm not sure. He's a real character.

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Originally posted by: Invictus
" When I was a freshman in 1971, Fred Horn was an RA in (I think, for memory dims) Scott Hall. He organized a "GDI" organization for the kids who didn't get frat bids & they had bonfires, beer busts, all that jazz. The kids moved on. Fred didn't. By the '80s, he was putting huge professionally painted signs on the south side of Forrest County Hall. Most were critical of the administration in general & a good many slammed the Greek system. One of my favorites was up on Homecoming: "Are drunken parties & football how we really should celebrate Homecoming?" Below it someone else had put a sign that read, "Hell yes!" He replaced his signs, if I remember correctly, on Mondays. One Monday, he arrived to find that someone had already put a sign up in his spot. The basic gist of the new sign was "Fred Horn can't remove this sign without infringing on MY rights to free speech." It was an ongoing source of entertainment for several years & got me thru my doctorate."

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Fred Horne was a career student at USM in the 80s --  literally, he had been taking classes ofr YEARS and was about 45-50 years old when I started at USM in '86.  He regularly ran ads in the Printz and hung huge handmade signs painted on butcher paper on the sides of campus buildings complaining about the administration, fat cat alumni who supported athletics to the detriment of education, etc.  Horne was really active in the late 80s and the administration enacted a sign policy that was clearly directed at Horne to prevent him from hanging his huge banners up anymore -- I don't remember the details of the policy now...too long ago.

Horne went a bit bonkers near the end of my time at USM.  He used to walk or ride his bike everywhere and he was in a bad part of town one night and got robbed and beat up by what he claimed were some purported gang members who were black.  His rants after that began to have a race-oriented focus to them and he seemed to then believe everyone was against him.  My last year at USM when I was Exec Editor of the Printz we refused to run one of his ads that we deemed racist and objectionable and he also wanted me to pursue some story and we checked it out and there was nothing to it.  He got hacked off, claimed I was just a puppet of the administration (and anyone who knew me back then knows I raised hell regularly in the Printz certainly was no puppet) and he ran a huge ad about me and the Printz in the last issue of the Printz my senior year with a hilarious caricature of me in the ad.

Horne kept things interesting when he was around, but his act also got a bit tired over the years because everything was a conspiracy to him even wehre no one else saw one.

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Originally posted by: BogusBoy
"Muckraker, You and I have many common things to talk about. We know each other. Maybe we can meet up via Fire Shelby somehow. It was huge fun to see you in the Printz again. Did it feel like Old Times, in a way (though the issue have changed dramatically!)?"

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Both of you send your email stating that you would like to correspond with the other.  If both of you agree to correspond, I will forward email to the other and you guys can take it from there.

Thanks for the story about Horne, by the way. 

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Originally posted by:
" Expect the Shelby Youth (SGA) to be out with brooms..."

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Originally posted by: LVN
"Chalker isn't damaging anything, which is the beauty of this.   The main thing would be loss of anonymity.  But if there isn't a rule against it, there probably will be soon. "

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don't you guys remember last year? and take back the night? rape statistics were chalked all over campus on founder's day and someone had to clean it up (of course the women's group...i don't think women's studies, weren't warned, as the greek system who had way more chalk and got a chance to clean it) and were supposedly gonna be fined $50, clean up fee.

be careful, but if you need help. just ask, my $50 is ready.