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...gallery space and play host to several long-term research initiatives, including Dalton’s own pet project, the Images of Black and Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, as well as the African-American National Biography Project. The Institute will also serve as the hub of a new publication, the Du Bois Review: Social Science of Race, to be edited by Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson, who continue to be cozy with the Du Bois despite their relocation to Stanford...
Negotiating the distance between the Hub of the Universe and the Big Apple was never easy. Harvard students who found themselves in a New York state of mind could choose between the cramped Fung Wah Bus and costly Amtrak service, neither of which was very inviting for undergrads desperate to escape the puritanical regime of 2 a.m. bar curfews. Thankfully, JetBlue Airways has come to the rescue with dramatically reduced airfare between Boston and New York: for a bit more than the Fung Wah fare, travelers can fly from Logan Airport to Kennedy Airport in just 70 short minutes...
...building called the Freshman Union. The union, now the Barker Center, used to serve as a student center for the freshman class. Freshmen ate their meals there, held meetings, and even got to watch cable television starting in 1993. Concentration fairs and theatrical presentations made the Union truly the hub of freshman life. This all changed in 1995, when the University decided to relocate the Union, relocate the freshman, and turn the building into a home for the Humanities faculties—with a $25 million budget. The project went ahead, despite fears that the relocation of freshmen to Memorial...
...focus, flashing shuttle signs—the future looks promising. But whether these improvements will truly improve what Glazer refers to as “a social crisis,” only time can tell. Within the College’s big push are definite imperfections.The new student group hub, for example, will be located inconveniently in the Quad.“Hilles will be wonderful, but I suspect there will be some grumbling that the space is not near the river,” says Adams House Master Sean Palfrey. Cabot House Master Jay Harris has no problem with...
...firm Architectus' competition-winning design does appear to float, with a 12-m winged canopy and 9,000 sq. m of glass, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is anchored by the black box of a cinema at its base. Two theaters and an exhibition space will form the hub of Australia's first Cinematheque within an art museum, when it opens with the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in November 2006. "One of the most important visual arts of the 20th century is cinema," says director Hall, who hopes to present film, video and art in "this nice...