The Big Picture: The Boneyard in Winter
Snow blankets Bardeen Quad near Boneyard Creek during holiday break. (Image by Fred Zwicky) Boneyard Creek—the 3.3-mile-long waterway that flows through the Engineering Campus and provides drainage for Champaign-Urbana—has meant different things to different generations of Illini. Early students knew it as a notorious site of hazing, where upperclassmen tossed freshmen in the middle of the night. To later students, it was a disgusting eyesore—filled with trash and debris—which would flood Green Street and campus buildings after a heavy rain. But for students today, the Boneyard is one of the most beautiful parts of our campus, a peaceful place to sit and watch the world go by—regardless of the season.
