"The French Fries" is the nickname given to a piece of public art adjacent to the Marston Science Library at the University of Florida, officially named "Alachua." It consists of elongated rectangular prisms, grouped in two clusters on either side of the walkway toward Turlington Plaza and Century Tower. Each cluster looks something like a three-dimensional asterisk, and both are painted yellow. Of coruse, it gets its nickname from its resemblance to a pile of french fries.

At orientation, every incoming freshman is told that the french fries are a popular meeting point. They are—for computer science students, as the CS building is adjacent to the sculpture.

I have long held a burning inner desire to get a large piece of red fabric and ketchup those fries. College pranksters, however, are not in force at UF...