Vandals tag campus with graffiti

PC Support Service Staff Mike Edwards cleaning graffiti off of Maier Hall. Photo by Eric Trent

By Eric Trent

No suspects have been apprehended as of yet and no one was caught on camera, as vandals hit Peninsula College campus with graffiti in five different locations.

On the afternoon of Monday, May 23, around 3 p.m., security guard, Jonas Brown was alerted to graffiti vandalism on the sidewalk between building A and the gym.

Soon, more graffiti was discovered scattered across campus. Areas that were hit with graffiti, included an obscenity spray-painted on the student services clocktower building, a phallic drawing on the sidewalk next to the readerboard by A building, a drawing of a car with a stick-figure driver smoking on Maier Hall, with some graffiti on both the Q and J buildings.

PC Support Service Staff Mike Edwards cleaning graffiti off of Maier Hall. Photo by Eric Trent
PC Support Service Staff Mike Edwards cleaning graffiti off of Maier Hall. Photo by Eric Trent

“Graffiti was still being found up to Tuesday morning,” Campus Safety Operations Manager, Marty Martinez said.

“It could have happened anywhere between Saturday and Monday, most likely in the evening, at dark,” Martinez added.

The phallic drawing was the first to be scrubbed, and by Tuesday afternoon the car graffiti was the last to be removed.