Writing on Walls

To the Editors of The Crimson:

Nothing could be more indicative of the childish apathy of college students in the 1970s than the dumb sixth-grade graffiti which has recently appeared in South House and is now spreading all over the university. In the South House elevator some childish person recently drew a Valentine heart with an arrow through it containing the names "Bert and Margie." (I have, of course, changed the names.) A few days later, regressing to kindergarten, someone had written "Bert and Margie sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g." Yesterday I discovered "Bert loves Margie" written in every stall of the Science Center men's bathroom. Harvard graffiti may never have been witty, but some of us yearn for the old days (the 1960s) when the writing on the wall (as Dylan put it) reflected a more politically committed student body. Ralph Baumgarten'81