Last Friday’s Maroon reported that on the evening of February 26, a fourth-year University of Chicago student, Mauriece Dawson, was arrested in the Regenstein Library for criminal trespass and resisting arrest. University of Chicago Police Department officers were responding to a complaint by a library clerk that Dawson and a friend were being disruptive, and claim that he refused to show ID or leave the library when asked. However, witnesses say the officers never requested ID and used undue force to arrest Dawson, who is African-American. There will be an open meeting about the incident this Tuesday from 6 to 8pm in the McCormick Tribune Lounge at the Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University Ave., with representatives from Campus and Student Life, the College, the UCPD, and the Regenstein Library.

A favorite example of the Reg graffiti

Quinn Dombrowski, the enterprising Regenstein Library photographer who has been documenting graffiti in the stacks since the summer of 2007, has put a new spin on her photography by launching the RegRemix contest, encouraging people to “reuse and remix” the graffiti through poetry, song, something tangible, or just about any form imaginable.

The contest is being held in conjunction with the release of her photography book on the same theme, Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Confessions of the University of Chicago. The expansive project, which contains over 700 photos, has been transformed by Dombrowski herself into buttons, mugs, and shirts.

The contest runs until December 20, and prizes include a shirt for the winner (with a graffiti of their choice) and a graffitied mug for the runner-up.