Someone New to Decorate: The Slow Birth of Kroon Girl
Mounted outside the entrance of Sage Hall, one floor up, stands a statue of an anonymous woodsman that can claim a little corner of the environment school’s soul. Students have been costuming this man of sandstone — dubbed “Sage Boy”— since the early 1970s. Like any icon, he’s thrown roots into the culture. A 2005 graduation program exalted him in similes comprehensible only to those pursuing an arboreal course of study (“He sounds/as if he had/smallish trees up his nose”). Environment students named their Craigslist-type Web site after him: Sageboy.net. Stranger yet, they insist on his...
