I teach Art at Long Beach State University. I have a tiny, boring office in a half-century-old faculty office bungalow. I used to hold office hours there. A while back it occurred to me that the students and I would both be better off if my office hours were someplace more open and light than my dingy office closet. So I moved my OH to the tables outside the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at the University Student Union at the center of campus.
Close to Coffee Bean are the main floor USU restrooms. Above the urinals in the men’s room are 2 chalkboards that usually feature some spontaneous opinion, vernacular expression, or drawing. This semester (Fall 2017) I thought I would photograph these chalkboards after my Monday & Wednesday office hours.
![Photo of the entrance to the restrooms.](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/GZ7_7174.jpg?resize=760%2C507&ssl=1)
![photo of 2 chalkboards mounted over a row of urinals](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/GZ7_7451.jpg?resize=760%2C507&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170906n.jpg?resize=760%2C488&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170906s.jpg?resize=760%2C483&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170911n.jpg?resize=760%2C472&ssl=1)
![](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170911s.jpg?resize=760%2C482&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170918n.jpg?resize=760%2C463&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170918s.jpg?resize=760%2C486&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170920n.jpg?resize=760%2C466&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170920s.jpg?resize=760%2C478&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170925n.jpg?resize=760%2C463&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170925s.jpg?resize=760%2C467&ssl=1)
![](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170927n.jpg?resize=760%2C475&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-170927s.jpg?resize=760%2C475&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-171002n.jpg?resize=760%2C486&ssl=1)
![brown chalkboard in the men's room with various markings in white chalk](https://i0.wp.com/glenn.zucman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BR-171002s.jpg?resize=760%2C482&ssl=1)
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