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Tunnel painting, seriously

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[I walk though this tunnel several times a week on my way to campus libraries, technology centers and food courts] Quietly hidden beneath the UR campus Eastman Quadrangle , lies a 235' long, underground passageway that everyone calls just "the tunnel." This well used, solid concrete corridor is part of a much larger underground pedestrian system that connects eight of UR's integral buildings. But this tunnel is different; painted entirely in passion pink, Smurf blue or you-choose-it —and it can change over night, as it did during this writing—"the tunnel" is also covered from one end to the other in graffiti. "The tunnel" stretches from the Hoyt Auditorium (a large, red brick building: everything is large and red brick at UR) to second tunnel that runs between Morey Hall and Lattimore Hall, after intersecting a third tunnel connecting the Bausch and Lomb Hall and Dewy Hall. Any student that wants to express them self, make a statement or post an ev