The Northwestern Outing Club painted the Rock Sunday night. According to the Outing Club, they had planned to guard the Rock on Thursday before they realized members of the Lovers and Madmen Rock Show Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) would be guarding it all weekend to use in the show. Instead, they asked someone from the show if they could paint the Rock on Sunday night, once it was over.
However, annoyed that someone had painted over their hard work only a few hours after they struck the set, some members of the Goodnight Desdemona production team added a few messages of their own in gray paint.
Though their show was done, assistant producer Shannon Desmond says that they were irked that the Outing Club did not go to all of the effort to guard the Rock. “The fact that there’s this tradition and we as Lovers and Madmen honored that tradition, and spent six nights at the Rock, and they spat in the face of that tradition and painted the Rock without following that traditional protocol is just sort of obnoxious,” she said.
