Word: toweritis
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...Senior Gift is, in the end, all about the money: how much Harvard has (plenty) and how it spends it (poorly). On the day seniors got our first mailings about the Senior Gift, The Crimson announced the University's plan to spend $4 million on a completely useless decorative tower. Could the timing have been more perfect...
...which many of us know as the looming architectural centerpiece between Kirkland and Cambridge Streets, may soon cast a shadow 70 feet taller. Recently, to cap off a five-year $2.1 billion capital campaign, the University announced that $4 million will be used to reconstruct the war memorial's tower, which burned down...
Admittedly, there are a few of us who have recoiled at the thought of augmenting this Gothic Goliath. But for many of us, the idea of restoring our venerable building to the glory and stature it once knew is a welcome one. The missing tower was a sign that Mem Hall was somehow unfinished; the rebuilding project is a nice symbolic and aesthetic move to complete the structure...
...This is not to say the money which will be used to fund the Memorial Hall tower, which came from a restricted fund and alumni donations, should have gone elsewhere. Rather, we are urging the administration to place a similar fundraising emphasis on other, issues more tangibly significant to students than the mere sight of a Gothic tower...
...Memorial Hall tower is, by all means, a commendable project. But, as always, the question of priorities rears its ugly head. We hope the University realizes that there is a lot more to improving campus life than architectural splendor...