Texas sized Toilet
You have heard it said that bigger is better.

     Is that always true? While looking through archive pictures at the University of Texas at Arlington we found what city officials have known for many years.

     The University and the town are built around an enormous toilet. As you can see from these pictures drastic measures have been taken in order to cover up this little error in taste by a former architect for the university.

     This building has been the butt of many jokes for many years, but it went unnoticed by some that this university is really going down the drain. With the recent occurances it has been a concern to the university that someone might try and vandalise the campus in order to put something in the pot!

     "It needed a handle" said Ron Albertson, a freshman in 1967 and a member of that years Alpha Phi Omega spring pledge class.

     So he and a few other APhiOs met at the nearby Cooper Street apartment of fellow pledge Ron Brooks and built one to scale, using 2x4s, cardboard and silver spray paint. Another friend worked as a janitor in the building and agreed to let them in. They hung their 12-foot creation from the roof. "The Jolly Green Giants john" as it was called then, was complete.

     With the rain and spring storms the biggest concern is an overflow at UTA, hopefully or graduates wont get flushed.