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The $556 decorative olive jar that sits in the University of Akron-owned home of now-former President Dr. Scott Scarborough became a symbol of the challenges and criticism the university faced over the past year. 

 

So - is it time for a next chapter for the infamous olive jar?

 

The public learned about the expensive olive jar when documents revealed how much was spent on renovations to the president's home. Nearly a million dollars was spent on the renovations, which included the $556 olive jar.

 

A poem read at one protest in August was an example as to what the olive jar represented to some.

It became the image of the budget cuts and layoffs at the university and the frustration over the lack of communication between the administration and students, alumni, faculty and staff. The olive jar was the center of attention during the controversy that was brewing on campus. The olive jar even attracted its own Facebook and Twitter pages. 

 

After this week's announcement from the board of trustees that they reached a mutual agreement with Scarborough to step down, talk of what happens to the infamous olive jar is beginning to surface. 

 

There's now a petition on Change.org to move the jar to a new home -- inside the Student Union on campus. The petition said it's a way for people to see it, touch it and "identify with its symbolic role."