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...course, the fact that COCA seems not to have weighed such moral ambiguities and complexities in their superficial analysis of the ongoing crises in Central America should come as a surprise to no one. After all, its existence, like that of most other activist organizations on this campus, relies less on reasoned discourse between its members than on lock-step conformity to a single viewpoint and the drowning out of opposing beliefs...
Like all of Eisenman's work, the Wexner Center is an obsessive meditation on the grid, modernism's elemental unit. For starters, Eisenman has lined up the building with the Columbus city grid rather than the campus grid -- an off- kilter tilt of 12 1/4 degrees. Within the complex, he has laid down still more grids to play with: the 12-ft. modules of white steel scaffolding, structural columns set 24 ft. apart, decorative columns 48 ft. apart. He lets these various grids overlap and collide, creating quirky niches and three- dimensional geometric cat's cradles everywhere. Inside, the experience...
...postmodern nemeses: the necessity of fitting in with nearby buildings, even the motley, uninspiring ones. Wexner, tucked between off-white masonry buildings, is clad partly in white limestone, and for all its coming- apart-at-the-seams wildness, the building is actually rather low-key, never overwhelming its campus. "We're on the short list for a new building at Yale," says Eisenman, the contextualist-come-lately. The location, he says nonchalantly, as if he had not spent the past 20 years ranting against any hint of historical style, "seems to call for a neo-Georgian classical box or something...
...Joel D. Hornstein '92, the Undergraduate Council member who introduced last spring's resolution to bring the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) back on campus, on the possibility of reopening council debate on the issue at this Sunday's meeting...
...find an example of this blind spot, we need look no further than the most popular course on campus this semester, Gen. Ed. 105, "Literature of Social Reflection." Taught by renowned psychiatrist Robert Coles '50, the course offers a reading list of predominantly white male authors, like James Agee, George Orwell, and Raymond Carver, although it does include a smattering of women and minorities, such as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, and Flannery O'Connor. The authors and texts, supplemented by occasional movies and documentaries, are divided into categories like "Ordinary American, So-called Working Class Men and Women: Several Angles...