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...party” was held in honor of the opening of the Carpenter Center, with guests including then-University President Nathan M. Pusey, patrons Mr. and Mrs. St. Vrain Carpenter, Dean of the Graduate School of Design José Luis Sert, and his wife Moncha Sert. To inaugurate the building??the first in North America designed by architectural great Le Corbusier—the university luminaries in attendance splashed champagne on the ramp, leaving a stain on its rough concrete...
Perhaps it could have happened no other way, for even now, nearly 41 years after the opening of the Carpenter Center, visitors and the building??s regular users find the most interest—and perplexity—in the ramp that passes through the middle of the building...
...tried to brand him as a “flip-flopper.” (This from the man who told us four years ago, “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called ‘nation-building??.”) Kerry ought to fight back with a moniker fit for Bush. “Asleep at the wheel,” a phrase we have heard many times during these past few weeks of Senate hearings, is actually a fair description of Bush?...
...Advocate has taken the initiative to propose several other changes that the University is not requiring. Members hope to replace the wooden floor of the sanctum and hire an electrician to alter the building??s circuits to allow enough power to support computers, which was not a concern when the outlets were originally installed...
...trustees used this money to pay the printing debts and to fund repairs to the building??s heating and plumbing systems. They withheld the rest of the money until they could ensure that the building would remain in the group’s possession...