Some Statue Stolen by Some Fraternity

by Hal Parker | July 4, 2007 at 11:13 am

Some Statue Stolen by Some Fraternity

Long before Lord Elgin, people -- particularly male people -- have been stealing statues for the sake of stealing statues. There's something deeply satisfying about it, some kind of primitive martial attraction which goes against the grain of our sedate modern culture.

So it is not without a spirit of history and destiny that the Cornell Daily Sun reports the theft of a "six foot long, three foot high plaster of paris replica of an original statue of Sleeping Ariadne" along with its subsequent discovery in an off-campus fraternity house. Fraternities, of course, are the modern keepers of the statue-stealing flame.

According to the Sun, the statue weighs 350-pounds (too zaftig for Theseus to handle?) and is worth between $5,000 and $20,000.

A tipster has informed us that the statue was discovered in the Theta Delt house. If you know something about this, please speak up.

--HAL PARKER 

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7 Responses to “Some Statue Stolen by Some Fraternity”

  1. sirs Says:
    July 4th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    you are a bunch of idiots. only a princeton student would be so inept to have to send a link explaining what the elgin marbles are. at my college, this knowledge is implied and expected.

  2. skrillanthropy event Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 7:59 am

    this site is a bunch of fools

  3. Evan Says:
    July 6th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    They called Theta Delt “Theta Drug” or “Thumpty” here at Cornell. I have no idea if it was actually them who stole the statue though.

  4. Big Red Says:
    July 6th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    I dunno about artifact theft–does the “primitive martial attraction” work as a legal defense?– all I know is that Thumpty throws a mean party.

  5. CU2010 Says:
    July 7th, 2007 at 12:07 am

    Hah, this story is hilarious. That statue is the “gray lady” in the architecture wing in Sibley. Kudos to whoever stole that. I’m just glad it didn’t get pissed on or pooped on, I kind of like the statue.

  6. ted Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    i heard it was the Sig Pi house.

  7. <3 Thumpty Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    “sirs”, chill. He’s not inept because he included a link. He’s nice!