Students were basking in the sun and socializing outside on the plaza last Wednesday.

Despite the tensions of a semester drawing to an end and the optimistic joy of the summer to come, the campus seemed quiet.

Then, with one swift motion, the Ninja Poets descended on campus.

Some were disguised in civilian clothing while others wore all black. The troop was small but they quickly engulfed campus.

With chalk in hand, the literary vigilantes began furiously carving poetry into the sidewalk of