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...speak, the Black Students Association has the right to heckle, even though heckling makes speaking more difficult. And when members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee blocked two of three exists to the Science Center auditorium, ideally forcing Kent-Brown to exit past demonstrators in the Science Center courtyard, they made movement difficult but by no means impossible. As long as protesters respect the peaceful limitations inherent to civil disobedience, their actions enjoy legitimacy...
...human-animal bond has long lifted spirits at home, and now is bringing that touch of hearth to institutional settings. In U.S. prisons, the Birdman of Alcatraz has numerous descendants. In Lima, Ohio, at a facility for mentally ill inmates, part of the courtyard resembles a barnyard. Sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits -- even deer -- roam around. "We're finding the prisoners who have pets are less violent," says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from...
...ugly sundae of realty speculation. But the building itself, designed by Tokyo-based Arata Isozaki, is a triumph, perhaps the most thoroughly felt new museum to rise in an American city since Louis Kahn's 1972 Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Its chief exhibition spaces are under the courtyard level, lit from above by beautifully proportioned groups of pyramidal skylights. In this way Isozaki has made the subtlest possible use of Los Angeles' main natural asset, its clear and candid light. No architect in America, not even Kahn himself, has reflected more sensitively on space and natural light...
Master Aloian helped to create the kind of house community from which everyone associated with the house benefitted. Under Aloian's direction, the courtyard was transformed from a post-modern cement nightmare into a grassy, comfortable meeting place complete with lawn furniture. He bought a VCR for the house, which any student can use and encouraged students to use the Junior Common Room--whether as TV room, dance hall, meeting room or art gallery...
...PLAYS at Harvard were piled on top of each other in the Adams House courtyard--actors, producers, sets, lights, everything--it would be a big pile indeed, a swarming, undulating column of histrionic people reaching to the top of Holyoke Center. Thirty or so plays a semester is not bad for a college without a drama school or even a department to support...