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Spencer Tritt / WNIJ
On Oct. 14, 1966, one of Altgeld Hall’s iconic stone grotesques was felled from the building’s west entrance by a lightning strike. Now located in a garden space between Altgeld and Still Hall, “Olive Goyle” continues to captivate as a campus landmark with a bewildering past.
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