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Jack, I've no Idea, the image is one that hit my Twitter or Facebook feed and I had to share :)
It looks like they added a brick veneer to the wall on the left or added a new wall there and it covered up the original "C". Look at the windows and see how narrower the frame is on the left than it is on the right. It's still funny.
Glad to see this thread back. Last post before today was July 2011.
Ball State University
College of Architecture and Planning
2000 W University Ave, Muncie, IN 47306
This might be the building (perhaps from a different angle):
The Ball State Daily :: Ten signs you're an architecture major
Some have suggested that the surface that you see on the upper deck is where the letters where Photoshopped in as a joke. Others say that the angle in the "C" photo might be to the left side of that same upper deck.
Google - perhaps from the same perspective as the article above.
(Pan up or zoom out to see the upper deck/windows.)
Google - from around the corner - left side of upper deck.
(Zoomed in on the upper deck.)
The reflections in the "C" photo seems to show a side of a building that has some brick followed by glass panes (which reach to the sky). Then a building surface almost directly behind the photographer. That building seems to have a white (concrete?) band on top.
This might be more consistent with a photo taken on the back side of that same building linked to above. Imagine approaching that same building from this angle - then turning 90 degrees to your right and taking a photo of an upper deck (not shown by Google maps). However, I don't see the white (concrete?) band on top of the building that would be behind the photographer.
Google's Street View does not show all angles/entrances to that building. I see no way to confirm the signage via Street View. If it is real, I would think that it was like some laundromat signs that are intentionally placed upside down to get your attention. If it is fake, I still wonder what angle/entrance was used for the original photo.
After looking at it more closely, I'm now convinced it was Photoshopped. Look at how the bricks are blurred where the "C" is and the angle of the mortar lines are different from the bricks below that portion. Also, the lower left corner of the window is cut off by the "bricks".