It’s hard to miss the giant “Hoya Saxa” mural while driving past Georgetown University on Canal Road NW. The mural has been an institution since it appeared on the wall sometime in the early 1990s, yet some, such as Barbara Zartman, vice president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, say the mural is “grafitti” and should be removed.

Well, it looks like that won’t be happening anytime soon. The West End Guide reports that at the last Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Council meeting, the ANC passed a resolution supporting the placement of a new welcome sign. (The Class of 2003 raised $29,500 just for this purpose.) However, commissioner and Georgetown University student Michael Glick introduced a successful amendment in which the commission “strongly requests that no modification be made to the…’Hoya Saxa’ mural.” Apparently, this means that the ANC resolution must be given “great weight” by law.

While the mural is a bit crude, school spirit is fine with DCist. While Georgetown may have an abundance of it — a walk around campus quickly reveals the large percentage of students with GU apparel — we say let the students have their mural. (Though it would be nice if someone, perhaps the “secret society” known as the Stewards, could repaint it to look a bit less … amateurish.)