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Well, it looks like the ambitious "landmark" has finally been recognized as a waste of time and money. Unfortunately, later this spring, scrap metal from the sign will be used to construct a smaller version for the corner of Mass Ave. and Dunster Street. According to a statement released by HRE, the sign was removed in anticipation of upcoming street performances in Forbes Plaza. "The sign was erected knowing that its would probably be modified," said University spokesperson Jonathan B. New. "The smaller scale sign is though to be best for the Shops...
Admittedly, the general concept of the new card keys is appealing. In contrast to the traditional, metal keys that irresponsible students misplace each year, card keys provide better security. It's easier to change a computer code and issue a new plastic card than it is to change a set of locks for an entire house...
...those who argue that the old system of metal keys ensures separate access, guess again. Until the Yard dorms led the electronic experiment last year, most first-years had copies of a master key that allowed entry to all the Yard dorms. And for the majority of the houses still using the old keys, students make regular strolls over to Dickson Brothers Hardware to copy their friends' keys...
This is not music for the squeamish -- or even the optimistic. Meshing the angry nihilism of punk and heavy metal with the synthetic sheen of techno, The Downward Spiral is a 14-song, 65-minute howl of somebody falling into the void. What keeps it from being just another nauseating exercise in shock rock is the intelligence and creative force behind its dire sound. On March of the Pigs, for example, layers of shifting static are suddenly broken by a lyrical piano riff that blooms like a flower through cracked pavement before the wall of noise crushes it again...
...awkward in striving for the unchained melodrama that Zoe Caldwell achieved in a 1982 revival. The balance of the cast, also from London, is workmanlike, save for Nuala Willis, whose keening songs redeem that most archaic of theatrical ploys, the chorus. The set, a vast wall of rusted metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written for a woman, fiercer than Lady Macbeth, more lovelorn than Phedre...