Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is why it infuriates me when people in the River houses--students who received one of their four choices--complain about the administration "taking away free choice" and "not treating us like adults." Those of us who were randomized under the old system never got any choice to begin with. We were all given the facade of choice, but when the slip came in, all semblance of determining our own fate-went out the window...
...years, will take away the stigma attached to the Quad. It's actually a beautiful place, for all you first-years who were placed there. Hilles Library and the QRAC are steps away from all the Quad houses; the facilities are excellent; and you can laugh at all your River friends who have walk-throughs while you luxuriate in spacious singles. Sure, it's far away, but it's nice to actually go home at the end of the day and feel like you're home; the neighborhood north of the Quad is gorgeous, with many old houses and tree...
HASTE members say the run was conceived in response to the mid-morning sexual assault of a woman running near the Charles River last fall...
...called the mausoleum of Soviet communism, it is Ulyanovsk, the industrial center on the Volga where Vladimir Lenin, ne Ulyanov, was born in 1870. It contains a varied assortment of Lenin shrines, from his parents' apartments to his classroom to a modernistic museum complex on a bluff overlooking the river. The city is so resistant to political and economic reform that some Russians refer to it as a "communist preserve." It has been ruled since 1990, except for a brief interval, by its "Red Governor," Yuri Goryachev, who was once First Secretary of the region's Communist Party. He continues...
...affecting contemporary architecture is globalization. "For the first time," he says, "an architect can build all over the world." He lives in London (though he spends much of the year in hotels), has an office in Rotterdam and runs an ongoing research project at Harvard that studies the Pearl River Delta, a rapidly emerging urban area in China. "It's clear," he maintains, "that you shouldn't just import; you should use the cultural potential of each country in such a way that it synthesizes with your interests. The MCA project is a beautiful project in that sense, because...