Some members of the teenage to mid-twenties age group play football and binge drink for a good time. Graffiti writers get their thrills by painting their pseudonym on the side of a train. Loyola students see graffiti every day. On most of the trash cans lining St. Charles Avenue the writer SANE has tagged his name. The name OMEN seems to appear on every other stop sign in the French Quarter.
Students have mixed feelings on graffiti.
However, Vilmarie Morales, communications sophomore, said she thinks graffiti is weird. All of these tags have a story behind them. Each has a history as to why they even were developed by the tagger. A writer's motivation can range from lack of attention to anger toward the world. To let out their frustration, writers often turn to tagging.