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...good university combats this tendency. It does so not through mandates or requirements, but through making space for serendipity. Indeed, it creates a kind of architecture of serendipity. It ensures that every week, and maybe every day, you will run into things that catch your eye, bring you up short, and maybe even change your life...
...Smith intends to requisition some of the College’s choice office space for FAS administrators. Offices that once housed bureaucrats preoccupied with undergraduate matters will instead be the home of the Faculty’s apparatchiks. Peer Advising Fellows will have to swipe their ID cards and traipse through the Holyoke Centre’s profane architectural morass before they can file the receipts for their study breaks, but the staff of the Divisional Dean of the Social Sciences may well soon have a priceless view of Harvard Yard...
4/19/07: Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub opens. Named after an inn John Harvard gave to the College, it was designed in response to criticisms of the lack of undergraduate social space...
...entities behave independently enough to engender some seemingly absurd transactions: in 2006, the central administration, looking for room to expand, purchased Mass. Hall from FAS after renting part of the building for years. And in a role reversal, the salesman then became the renter when FAS, needing more dorm space for undergraduates, announced this April that it would pay the University to use the space it once owned...
...College Theatre, which took the place of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre on Holyoke Street this October, provides one such outlet. The 272-seat theatre features state-of-the-art lighting, a mechanized orchestra pit, and a rehearsal and performance space as large as its main stage. Its location, Faust observed in remarks at the Theatre’s opening, “literally and figuratively made arts more central at the University...