<p>Ok…So who knows some truth regarding the story? Did the statue really make a hammer and sickle shadow, or not? Because that would be hilarious.</p>
<p>This is from an article I founf on the U. of C. web site:</p>
<p>“Looking west, you can see Pick Hall, the international studies building. Legend has it that the economics department was about to move into the building when they noticed that the statue outside (visible in the lower right-hand corner) cast a shadow of a hammer and sickle every May 1, the Socialist workers holiday. The economics department, known for its conservatism, moved out in a huff and the international studies department moved in.” </p>
<p>Pretty funny, I think.</p>
<p>woah that’s gotta be FUNNIEST thing I’ve heard! Woah!</p>
<p>[A</a> photograph](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/paytonc/53480209/in/set-256786/]A”>"Dialogo" on May Day | A clutch of Commies admire their hand… | Flickr) of the shadow on May Day. If you Google Dialogo (the name of the sculpture) and sickle you’ll turn up more pictures.</p>
<p>AH HA!!! I KNEW IT!!! Diocletian, you make my life complete. Perhaps if I were no so excessively lazy, I could have googled it myself…but that’s impossible.</p>
<p>I don’t really see the hammer though :/</p>
<p>There are better pictures if you Google. Those were just the first I found.</p>
<p>I don’t think it was intentional, however.</p>
<p>the tour guide said that the sculptor was a communist or something. I think you underestimate the thought artists put into their work–especially a work as large as that.</p>