The Broken Hydrant

Quick study break from Conflicts.

An irony about St. Thomas Law. It's a relatively young school that just happens to have attracted some fine donors: the owner of Best Buy, the Schoenecker family, etc. We're lucky for it. It also means that the school has a lot of cash to throw around--and they do a pretty darn good job of it. Healthy scholarships, good food at law school events, and a pretty sweet brand new $35 million building. They put up paintings of just about anyone they can think of during first and second year...at some point someone noticed that the school is named "St. Thomas" and that St. Thomas More happens to be the patron saint of lawyers. So that meant they needed to install a ten foot marble statue of him.

Here's the one thing I don't get: the fountain. When they designed the law school grounds downtown, they place a fountain out in front of the building surrounded by a few small gardens and some grass. So given everything else they have around the joint, when they designed the fountain, you'd expect a big brass Thomas Aquinas dancing in the middle of it or something to that effect. Instead, water...shooting straight up. On a night like tonight it actually looks pretty cool, but the utter lack of creativity with this thing. It just stands in such stark contrast with everything else here. During the daytime it looks kinda like someone accidentally jumped over the curb one night and knocked over a fire hydrant. Heck, gimme two cinder blocks and a garden hose. I could build the same thing for a lot cheaper.

Just a thought. Alright, back to studying...