Nothing is complete if it ain't got no clock.................

Clock hands[edit]

Healy Clocktower is 200 ft (61 m) high.

The hands of the Healy Clock Tower have been subjected to many thefts, as per the university tradition.^[4] Historically, students would steal the hands and mail them to the person they wished to visit the campus, most notably sent to the Vatican, where they were blessed by Pope John Paul II and then returned to the university.^[5][6] One such incident caused significant damage to the clock mechanism, however, and security has been increased as a result in recent years, decreasing the incidence of the theft.^[7] These measures have not prevented students from successfully obtaining the hands however, as they are captured every five to six years, such as in the fall of 2005 by Drew Hamblen (SFS ’07) and Wyatt Gjullin (COL ’09).^[8]The hands were stolen once again during the evening between April 29 and April 30, 2012, and supposedly sent to Barack Obama but the hands ended up lost in the mail.^[9] Most recently, the clock hands were stolen during the evening between December 9th and December 10th, 2014.^[10]