Graffiti Advocate Web Sites
at America's's High Schools,
Colleges and Universities

One of the costliest crimes in known history, graffiti vandalism, has spawned advocate Internet web sites all over the world. Many of these web sites are located at high schools, colleges, and universities. The United States has the ugly distinction of having seeded graffiti throughout the world. Now our school servers continue to perpetuate the tragedy with on-line criminal advocacy. Your tax dollars and American children are building these graffiti advocate web sites. Mom and dad, teacher and professor, are you watching over and caring for the kids? Have we no shame? We would not tolerate burglary or hazing advocacy, or pornography at our schools. Why advocate vandalism? Why? Shouting fire in a movie theater is not protected speech and neither is conspiring to commit a crime. Why then are the schools allowing this? Academic freedom ends when the research becomes an arm of advocacy for the criminal activity it portends to study. Universities have an adult responsibility to your child that in some cases appears not be be present. So mom and dad what are you going to say to your kid's school? Some of these pages were removed by schools or the kids of graduated. We can only hope they grew up.

• University of Maryland Baltimore County.
• New York University
  Bicoastal Kimetic Suns, "Welcome to the home of the personal pages of faculty, staff, and students of NYU! These pages do not in any way constitute official New York University content. The views and opinions expressed in the pages are strictly those of the page authors, and comments on the contents of those pages should be directed to the page authors. The list of personal home pages is maintained by Computer Advocacy at NYU." Research? Standards? Say what? So mom and dad if your kid builds trash on this server who ya gonna call?
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  This site advocates graffiti vandalism to freight trains. A special alert for law enforcement! This webmaster has created a page that provides information on avoiding capture and detection by the police. This is not academic freedom, this is on-line criminal advocacy. Do you suppose if the university suddenly falls victim to taggers they might adjust "academic freedom" to suit?
• Trinity University, Hartford, Connecticut
  You have to read the university disclaimer to believe it! The school gives the students the space and then absolves itself of any responsibility for it: "The homepages accessible from here reflect the views and opinions of the Trinity on-campus organizations, students, faculty and staff members who created them and who are solely responsible for their content. The views, opinions and other content reflected in these pages do not represent official Trinity College positions, and the individual homepages are not to be considered part of the college's official web site. " This is academic freedom?
• University of Tucson, Arizona
  Tucson Graffiti Art. This town has worked hard to clean up the crud but the school obviously is not part of the program.
• University of Pittsburgh
  The Art of Tags (..but the graffiti advocates all say taggers are toys and are not real "graffiti artists?" How puzzling. Is the Univeristy of Pittsburgh buried in graffiti? Ths site sure suggests that. Some school image.
• Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
  Peter's Graffiti Pictures on the staff pages.
• Los Angeles Unified School District
  Given the trouble LA has with graffiti this link is very hard to understand. (Site removed from the net on 10/7/97 in violation of the LAUSD Acceptable Use Policy.)
• Washington University, College of Arts and Sciences St Louis, Mo.
  Graffiti by mbdavis
• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
  Removed as a "policy decision" the week of Christmas 1997 but arrogantly maintains a link to graffiti.org. The original Art Crimes web site that seeded the rest of the world. Portions of this university web site were removed on August 18, 1997 we think as a result of letters of readers of the Anti-Graffiti Web Page to the president of the university. We were just being taunted. The site returned, complete with a new add-on site that advocates criminal malicious mischief to trains. Keep sending those cards and letters though, do not give up! They may be laughing at us at Georgia Tech but we know there is no anthropological or educational value to this site. We know it is criminal advocacy with the blessing of higher education. The President of the University, Dr. Clough, is leaving the site up for its academic award winning value. Perhaps Dr. Clough needs an education? If your letters don't work, simply don't send your children there and DON'T make contributions to this university until the site comes down. Removal of this trash is not a First Amendment issue. That claim is a smoke screen to avoid admitting responsibility and accountability. Anyone with common sense reading this site would wonder about its so-called academic value and why any school claiming to have a value system would permit it. Schools are not supposed to advocate and glorify criminal behavior directly or indirectly. Why is Georgia Tech? Using Clough's perverted logic, recently sent to me by a person who had written him, Georgia Tech can rationalize publishing any aberrant or criminal activity on the web in the name of educational value. What happened to the days when schools cared about moral values? Even Clough's old hangout, Berkeley, CA. has an aggressive anti-graffiti program. Go figure.
  
• California State University Northridge
  Los Angeles 50 millimeter (Moved to a commercial domain the week of 8/28/97, and thanked us for this link some days later.)
• University of Missouri, St. Louis
  St Louis Graffiti
• University of Pittsburgh
  This kid's hero is the Una Bomber. He's moved his pages in 1998 to one of the free providers but his school server still points to the garbage.
• University of Pittsburgh
  3000 Degree Empire
• University of Maryland at College Park, Work Stations at Maryland
  Contents Under Pressure, a commercial looking magazine that appears to have nothing to do with the school. (Disappeared from the net after complaints were sent to the school around 9/12/97)
• Welcome to the University of Missouri
  Mark's Collection
• Yale University
  DAN'S HOMEPAGE: ANOTHER BEGINNING
• Boulder, Colorado School District: New Vista High School
  Neighborhood 634 Crew web site
  (Removed from the net the week of July 24, 1997)
• Center for Engineering Computing, Washington University, St Louis, MO
  Online Piece Book of WAE32
  ( Removed from the Net between July 24 and August 9, 1997 )
• Haverford College, Haverford, PA
  "Try graf, its the natural high" - Jive IMOK These pages are history as of January 1998. Bye now!
• Illinois Institute of Technology
  graf page
• Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio
  Futura 2000
• The University of Michigan
  flix by Jesse Schiffrin, page by SevOne"ESP
• The University of Michigan
  Graffiti
• Academic Resources and Computers in Housing (ARCH) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Graffnet: This University of Wisconsin site is promoting a new world graffiti order to take place in the year 2000. This page is history. That's nice.
• University of Washington
  Graffiti
• Columbia University, New York, NY
  I Can Fly The trash in these -pages is now residing at graffiti.org. Some claim to fame eh?

Each one of these web sites has or had a link to it from
the Georgia Institute of Technology's Art Crimes web site.
You don't have to look far to find them. -- Now moved tograffiti.org.

• Baltimore City Community College
  Political Graffiti, with links to Art Crimes and other vandalism advocate sites.

Last modified September 26, 1999