To the Editor:
I would like to respond to the message written on the Winter Carnival Snow Sculpture this past Saturday morning. The letters "AIM" had been painted on the front.
First of all, I would like to know to what this message referred. It baffles me and I wish someone would clue me in. I have spent the last four days straight on the sculpture, and have not seen a bit of news, so perhaps I have missed some significant world event.
Secondly, I would like to know why the snow sculpture has been the target of so much political banter the past few years. Few will remember, but my freshman year, paint was thrown across the sculpture during the middle of the night to protest the Gulf War. Now the word "AIM."
Why do some people insist on vandalizing something that I and many others have dedicated our days, weeks, months and terms to creating? Whether or not you like, appreciate or respect it is irrelevant. Have you no better forum in which to vent your anger than against us and our creation? Since I have spent the last six weeks on the sculpture, I take it as a personal attack.
It was not a difficult task to remove the paint, and I did so early Saturday morning. The message was not seen by many people. I ask to whomever decided to use the sculpture as their own personal billboard, why not present your message on some more permanent facade. I also ask whomever it was to explain the significance of "AIM" and why it needs to be on the snow sculpture.
I wish to express my thanks to all those who helped with the Carnival Snow Sculpture this year. They put in many hours of hard work, and I hope they all know how grateful I am.
ARTIE ZWEIL '94
Winter Carnival Sculpture Chair
