In 1968, my sophomore year at Syracuse University, they broke ground on a new engineering building that was to be built right on the main quad. Because of legacy rules on a donation no building on the quad could be taller than Hendrix Chapel.
That required going down 3 or 4 stories to build the required number of rooms. They were still building when I graduated.
The build site was entirely encircled by a wall of 4’ x 8’ sheets of plywood painted gray. The student election was coming up and they painted on the wall in 7’ tall letters:
WE WELCOME THE ELECTION.
Some student, under the cover of darkness changed the sign to “WE WELCOME THE ERECTION”.
The janitor was assigned the task of painting over the offensive sign.
His first effort was: E WELCOME THE ERECTION
He decided that was not sufficient and he continued on his quest to make the sign acceptable with : WELCOME THE ERECTION
That would not do, so: ELCOME THE ERECTION
He finally stopped when he reached : ECTION
It took him the entire day. He might have benefitted from some supervision.
