Morning Buzz: Hecuba Has Arrived At The USC Village

The statue of Tommy Trojan’s female counter part, Hecuba, is ready for her unveiling at the USC Village. But the statue won’t be unveiled until August 17. This has potential disaster written all over it. It seems a bit over the top to have a university statue this ostentatious. Especially of something students don’t identify with. We’ll see how it looks in four weeks.

38 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: Hecuba Has Arrived At The USC Village

  1. I do find the placement of this ‘idol’ a bit weird then again is this were West LA it would be one of the peckerhead

    • Alvarado,
      They already have a statue of Johnny Cheetin’ Wooden inside the cow palace known as Polly Povillion, home of the summer swim playground for kiddies. They need one of Gilbert saying and pointing to Wooden, “He cheated”. I would chip in on that.

      • PT, What a profound condemnation of the Univ of Cal at Los Angeles, yet SO TRUE…..

        • The Jesuits forte is education. Yes, I did receive an excellent one from them. Thank you for remembering.

      • I recommended it twice for the con is so sweet for bel-air tech. Never any accountability there nor for any left-marxist acolytes – Korda’s hip photo of that elitist bourgeois fraud ‘Che’….Mao in his pajama top

        • Trump will be impeached for high crimes, treason and gross incompetence after which the Trump family Godfather “Donnie Piles will defect to Russia.

          • You already lied on this blog 8 months ago with your famous prediction that Hitlery would be our president. Yet here you are back in the prediction business. You should read in the Old Testament about what they used to do to false prophets in Israel when their predictions didn’t come true. They had the right idea with dealing with your kind of liars .back then.

  2. But what is Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he would weep for her
    Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2

    It has nothing to do with the “liberal polis at its worst” but with the love of a Queen for her dead husband.

    Although, I must agree. It will be interesting who “paints” it first, those from the WestSide, or our own Undergrads?!

  3. Scotty, why is there a hangman’s noose in the upper left corner of the picture??

    some right wing neo-Nazi group’s attempt to besmirch Hecuba??

    reminds me of when the racist Frat boys yelled racial slurs at the new Student Body President who was Indian.

    #Wow

      • Ostentatious. Over-the-top. Just plain weird. Who the heck is Hecuba that a statute of her should take prominent stage in the courtyard of an institution of higher learning….that’s why.

        • Art is not ostentatious. Sculpture in public places is not over-the-top. If you really don’t know anything about Hecuba – Queen of Troy, character in the books of The Iliad and plays by Euripides, who is frequently referenced in classical literature, and in many medieval, Renaissance, and modern works…then maybe you should go back and finish your education.

          • Traveler: On the contrary, some so-called “art” is, in fact, ostentatious. As to whether or not a sculpture in public places is over-the-top really depends on the sculpture, now doesn’t it? And the tales of this mythological queen of Troy are nothing to which I would want to erect a statute.

          • Well she was said to have had 19 children so Planned Parenthood will not like it.

          • Why don’t you Google “ostentatious” before you humiliate yourself further, Troller. You really don’t know what the word means.

      • Why? Why? Why are you back Troller?? It was such a nice summer until today.

  4. Since when is art in a public facing plaza considered “ostentatious”?

    What’s with the sour grapes?

  5. Potential disaster? Be serious. Ostentatious? What a joke. Hecuba is the Queen of Troy in Greek mythology and she’s a symbol of the importance of women at USC and there’s nothing wrong with that.

    Start doing your job better SW and leave the campus statue critiques to those who get all freaked out by a new campus fountain that doesn’t suit their tastes.

  6. If they wanted to reach into history and honor women at USC, they should have kept and tranferred to the new University Village that inverted fountain they took apart that was near the old cinema building.

    All Trojans know about that old fountain and I don’t recall there ever being a protest about its presence. They even talked about it on tour guides of the campus.

  7. OK Wolf you keep talking about my mother we a going to have a problem. Don’t make me slap you like a Thracian whore.

  8. Hecuba couldn’t prevent the Greeks from destroying the city of Troy.

    Why does bozo u feel compelled to fund statues to colossal losers.

    So, next up bozos, a Toejam statue honoring that Imp of bozo avarice, Reggie “I didn’t do it” Bush. FORE.

    Memo to Avocado – Mr. Wooden, 7 straight basketball NC’s and 10 total. Statistically, the the greatest NCAA Basketball coach ever, never to be surpassed.

    Avocado: Loud, drunk and petty, elbow planted on the dirty bar at the Bistro de Peckerwood, mooching drinks. No wonder Angela Davis has a job and the Avocado doesn’t.

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