From Staff Reports, Northwestern News
A piece of concrete lettering needed to repair Northwestern’s large sign along Oklahoma Boulevard was damaged during shipping, officials said.
A concrete block bearing the letters “ersity,” the last letters in “university,” apparently broke in half while the sign’s components were being shipped from the Stone Legends factory in Dallas, Texas, workers told Dr. David Pecha, the university’s vice president of administration.
Workers are repairing the sign following a February ice storm in which it was damaged. A driver who was pulling up to a nearby stop light couldn’t stop because the road was slick, and he hit the university sign, police said at the time of the incident.
The broken replacement part will be remade, but officials say they are unsure when it will be delivered. The university has waited months for the replacement parts to be delivered because of the pandemic’s impact on manufacturing, Pecha said.
The driver’s insurance is paying for the original damage to the sign, but officials say the cost to fix the broken replacement part will be handled by the sign contractor and the factory.