Eyesore or sight for sore eyes?

Anyone unfamiliar with hip-hop culture and its ties to graffiti art was probably a little confused when they walked into Barnum 008 last Thursday night, expecting to hear a lecture on the history of graffiti and its impact on today's youth. What normally is a sitting area for students waiting to get into class was transformed into a series of vending stations. Tables lined one side of the passageway with T-shirts, hats, posters, bumper stickers, and Submerge (a techno group from Detroit which sponsored the event) cassettes.