Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...etched numbers only reinforced the idea that people are numbers," said Carolyn Bemis, a third-year student at the GSD. "At the Vietnam Memorial, you can see all the names. Here, number 243 is 300 feet above...
Tubs at Harvard have traditionally rested on their own bottoms. Rich Business School alumni give lots of money to the B-School. Consequently, the B-School can heat its outdoor tennis courts. Poorer Graduate School of Design alumni can't give quite as much. Consequently, the GSD must lay off its employees. In other words, this every-school-for-itself philosophy has left the pre-megabucks professional schools with ridiculous luxuries while forcing equally deserving graduate schools to cut the essentials...
Hoffer said the upgrading promised by the funds is "just part of the evolution for computers in the GSD," and will now be able to "move a little faster...
Students use the GSD's computers for a variety of different design techniques, such as animation, mapping, and developing models for proposed buildings. The computer system, which consists of about 40 terminals, is also used for word-processing, programming and spreadsheets...
Hoffer said that the computers, used by nearly all the student body, are a staple of the educational program at the GSD. About 350 of the school's 400 students are signed up to use the terminals this semester...