Word: quads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Office for the Arts had envisioned using the Quad for a series of artistic displays, Director Myra M. Mayman announced Tuesday that the orange stripes will not appear. Mayman's plans would have created in three weeks a zebra-like effect of alternating stripes of orange andgreen grass...
When Mayman, who is also master of Cabot House,held an open meeting last week to explain theplan, many Quad residents complained that theorange stripes would hinder football games on thelawn...
Earlier this week, a group of North Housestudents presented Mayman with a petition signedby 180 Quadlings asking her to cancel the stripesproject. "We just want the Quad finished. Thelater you plant the grass, the more likely it isto die," said Eric D. Wolff'88, who organized theanti-stripe campaign...
...million Quad renovation project hasalways included plans to replace the grass in thecentral area, and Schwartz had hoped toincorporate her design into the resodding. Theorange color would have faded about three daysafter its installation...
...changes in the Quad construction scheduleadvanced resodding work to this week, well beforethe stripes plan could be implemented, Mayman'smemo said. As a result, Schwartz "will have torethink the project", the memo says...