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...University ought to invite student and faculty input not only on building use but architectural matters. When University Hall is renovated this summer, will those wonderful great round-headed doors on the first floor remain? Will wooden floors across campus be carpeted over as has happened in the Barker center? (You can hear tantalizing creaks beneath your feet in the English department.) To some degree, the honest, dated feel of the Science Center is preferable to the sanitized feel of Harvard Hall which tries to be all things to all people but only succeeds in feeling endlessly renovated. For better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...even have blueprints. But unless Boston Mayor Tom Menino and the Beacon Hill gang actually mobilize in the next few months, the situation will look awfully similar to the football stadium debacle last year that almost led to the Hartford Patriots. The Red Sox are a Boston institution. They ought to get the infrastructure that they want for this project. Everybody wins with a new stadium...

Author: By Brad R. Sohn, | Title: Spring Cleaning | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...resorts to anecdotes as proof for unfounded social theories. His thesis, which purports that the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was unique, is simple and unoriginal. Nonetheless, Make Love Not War is an interesting compilation of stories about sex in the 60's and 70's, which ought to intrigue any healthy college student, but the book fails to provide any genuine scholarship on an oft-mythologized period in American culture...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History of Porn, With Subtitles | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

Council Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01 said that since Census 2000 is not just a student undertaking--administrators will reap the benefits of the information the council will uncover--Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 ought to bear some of the costs...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Takes 1st Step Towards Census 2000 | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...sense of unfairness is compounded by a feeling that the government has taken the side of Microsoft's enemies in Silicon Valley, when it ought to be neutral. Silicon Valley is full of hypocrites who talk about the free market but come running to the government to hobble a competitor. Silicon Valley also is full of characters--such as Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems--who do fit the stereotype of obnoxious megalomaniac so often and unfairly applied to Bill Gates. Or, again, so it seems to many in Redmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View from the Cafeteria | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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