SCARLET KNIGHT STATUE
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Speaking of Holiday bumps...
Hey @SF88,
Do you have any 2'x3' R flags (with the B1G emblem on them) in stock?
I was told by a very important person connected to RU that I need to replace the one at my parent's house.
Ok Find me a staute .......email me pictures contacts etc. cpaladino@devco.org
Maybe this something we can do
How about making a class/some classes for this?
Business class: Learn about fundraising and marketing for fundraising. Fund raise.
Arts Class: Come up with designs for the statue, learn about what kinds of materials are available, etc.
Landscaping: Discuss how to landscape around monuments and statues.
Even if it's not the final work, I feel this is a great thing to provide students with real life examples.
Business class: Learn about fundraising and marketing for fundraising. Fund raise.
Arts Class: Come up with designs for the statue, learn about what kinds of materials are available, etc.
Landscaping: Discuss how to landscape around monuments and statues.
Even if it's not the final work, I feel this is a great thing to provide students with real life examples.
Been saying this for YEARS.
We already have our own in-house staff for this. It's not like we're APEX Tech.
There is talent sitting behind the desks in classrooms at RU in every one of the above categories.
Whether they do the work themselves or at least intern with the group that does, get the kids involved.
We are working on the Knight......more complicated process to have a commissioned statute then you would think....will let you know how we are progressing but we want to unvail it either before the first game ( maybe in conjunction with a Pep Rally at the The Yard@CollegeAve or the Friday before Homecoming
You. Are. Awesome. Where are you looking at for the location, The Yard or stadium? On the horse like UCF or off. Thanks.
The Yard . I have no jurisdiction at stadium . I also believe it will become more iconic on college age. It should be important even to students and faculty on a daily basis and to those who may not be football fans . It is a symbol of the entire university . It should be where HS students on admission tours take there photo , on orientation weekend and at graduation , it should be a pledge class photo etc.
standing I don't want to encourage people claiming on it late at night
standing I don't want to encourage people claiming on it late at night
YES!! (but the temptation to climb an iconic statue is unavoidable, especially during celebrations. GO RU!)
We will put grease on it
So true @Cofifa that is exactly the way people at USC treat Tommy Trojan. Nearly any time of day people are out there taking pictures with him.
Hopefully the knight will be completely covered in armor so we won't have to worry about any ethnicity/male/female issues and can just appreciate the Knight as a symbol.
How about by the Honors College? That area has more of a College feel.
The Yard, from what I've seen, is more like an "across the street from campus" mixed-use area that could just as easily be a non-university residential/retail building. There is nothing about the architecture or design that suggests collegiate.
But 80% of the people that frequent the Yard will be students . 9,000 students use the bus stop thousands use Scott hall . Honors college has a limited constituency and many students would have to look for it . Lots of students will be hitting Starbucks , surf taco etc and coming tons pep rally on the green or watch an away game on the big board or movie night ...it will become one of the centers of campus life in college ave
The Honors College area needs a Colonel Henry Rutgers statue instead of a knight. And I'd love to see Old Queens have Alexander Hamilton in his military regalia looking over the Raritan.
I thought the Honors College was at the opposite end of Voorhees Mall from Old Queens. And I thought the plan was to continue the Voorhees Mall walking paths through the Honors College to Bishop House. So a Scarlet Knight statue on the hill overlooking Voorhees Mall would essentially be in the middle of campus.
Honestly, if I could choose one place for it, I'd choose the new quad when it gets built. The Yard, good place though it is, is on the edge of campus. It's close to many of the academic buildings, but you've already got an iconic statue in that area, Willie the Silent.
The majority of people hanging out and activism, and center of life at College ave takes place at the student center and Brower steps. And assuming the new quad comes out well, that's where it should stay. I'd love to see more buildings like Murray Hall in that area. With a knight statue as the focal point, I think it'd be a wonderful capstone, right in the beating heart, between dining halls, academic buildings, student centers, housing.
But having it start in the Yard is a great idea. Let's at least get it made while there's momentum.
Frankly, I wish the administration would relinquish their hold on Old Queens. That building should have more purpose than as a generic office building students can't go into. There are students who don't even know where Kirkpatrick Chapel is.
In any other state, I'd agree with you but the word Union is ubiquitous in NJ and brings to mind too many competing images that have nothing to do with Rutgers
Well geographically speaking it fits.
The other stuff...eh.
This forum already knows how I feel on the yard thing. It's not a yard, it's a place that just happens to border Union Street.
Love the project, hate the name.
I'd like to see Winnants used for seminars rather than just as the board(s) meeting space. They could meet anywhere.
This would bring at least some student activity back to the OQ campus.
Too bad you weren't sitting there when trying to come up with a name.
I'm here all week...try the veal. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Yes but smart enough to put myself in a place to decide the name
Too bad you weren't sitting there when trying to come up with a name.
I'm here all week...try the veal. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Cofifa you are awesome !! This would be so great if it is a large iconic statue for the University.
Cofifa what kind of job openings are there at DEVCO? I want to join the cause - you guys do outstanding work.
Cofifa what kind of job openings are there at DEVCO? I want to join the cause - you guys do outstanding work.
I like this pose it get us the shield and sword...thoughts?I love this topic and I really hope we put something up. As a way to completely avoid any gender bias, the knight should have no skin or facial features visible. It should be completely in armor.
In terms of how it should be positioned: something like the below, but again with his head completely enclosed and no crosses. Don't want to look overly ready to fight, but guarded to throw down if needed.
EDIT: and it should absolutely be on College Ave. That's where the vast majority of visitors will visit. From the Yard to purchasing books to the student union. Busch and Livingston are only heavily visited a couple of days a year. Put it in the park at the top of the new Academic Buildings area.
It's a good start.
But I do like the idea of our Knight being on horseback.
And as @RUseaweed said...
"As a way to completely avoid any gender bias, the knight should have no skin or facial features visible. It should be completely in armor."
Which why I like the look we have now with the one at the FB games. The end product doesn't have to look exactly like it but should be used as the template.
Big big fan of that pose Cofifa. Shoulders up and proud. Maybe the new crest on the shield if Rutgers will let their copyright be used that way?
I also personally prefer the horseback Knight. But anything that is large, a photo op, symbolic, and really a center piece and pride point for the University .. I'll be proud of.
The head/helmet should look like the logo/ knight on horseback, for identity and seeming more 'legit" purposes.
We have found a suit of armour with a helmet just like the Rutgers Knight . We need to actually have someone model for the fabricator. we will post photos when it arrives
