The Memorial Union Zodiac - To Walk Around or Step It Through

[State2015]

It was part of the original Memorial Union in 1928.

Tradition, Myths and History - Memorial Union

www.mu.iastate.edu

The Zodiac

emuseum.its.iastate.edu

That’s awesome, not a lot of places have hundred year traditions. These damn kids better keep it going

 

[BCClone]

I will always walk around it to keep with tradition. Plus, if I fail a test at this point in my life, it's significantly worse than failing one when I was a student.

Uuuuhhhhjh…….maybe. I fail tests everyday with my wife. I don’t need the zodiac to do that.

 

[Farnsworth]

That's correct. Actually I am respecting the artist and his vision. He intended for it to be worn smooth by many years of being walked upon. The tradition is the corruption of what was intended to be an artwork collaborated on by students across the ages.

Architect/designer William T. Proudfoot, created in the 1920's. So he dead, so don't feel bad for his artistic vison.

 

[keepngoal]

Respect the room, of course.

.....And the tradition? come on.

 

[jcyclonee]

Uuuuhhhhjh…….maybe. I fail tests everyday with my wife. I don’t need the zodiac to do that.

Same here. I feel like those tests are rigged!

 

[Bader]

Architect/designer William T. Proudfoot, created in the 1920's. So he dead, so don't feel bad for his artistic vison.

 

[RING4CY]

Been out of school over a decade and still walk around it when I enter the MU.

Same.

I can never rule out ending up back at ISU as a grad student.

 

[dafarmer]

Are you sure these were ISU co-eds? Sounds like U of I coeds in disguise.

 

[CloneKing]

Always on the right. Came close a couple of times to walking over it but hit the brakes and swerved to the right.

 

[bosco]

Lately I saw one of those dumb accounts like "Iowa State Girls" Instagram and posted a "hilarious" video (someone linked to Facebook). It was a drunk of coeds hanging out in the Gold Star Hallway in the Memorial Union and being well, drunk, and stomping around on the zodiak and basically playing it like hopscotch.

I graduated in 2007 and the video actually made me pretty ******* pissed off. I started to wonder, what if students think about the zodiac throughout the years.

So, do you walk through or around go the zodiac in the Memorial Union?

Tradition, Myths and History - Memorial Union

www.mu.iastate.edu

https://www.foundation.iastate.edu/s/1463/giving/interior-1col.aspx?sid=1463&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=4352&ecid=4352&crid=0&calpgid=1284&calcid=4346

Don't know if this was intentional but I'm calling a group of coeds a DRUNK from now on.

 

[Cy4Lifer]

This is a tradition?

Unfortunately, only for guys!

 

[cyfan964]

I've always walked over it. I'm lazy and hate superstitions. I guess I'm a horrible Cyclone.