There it lay, outside the back, or north, entrance to the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Art Museum, behind the red brick Faculty Club and not too far from the soon-to-be-demolished Humanities Building.
The square Tootsie Roll of handsome purplish granite that read “Chazen Museum of Art” had been snapped. Broken in two.
Was it the victim of drunken accident? Of vandalism? Of rebellious students wanting to overturn something? Not at all. Turns out a University of Wisconsin police car drove into it one Sunday a couple of weeks ago, apparently because the driver simply didn’t see the low placed bench.