Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless you're going to live in the Mather House or Leverett House Tower. And unless you're willing to craftily break those rules. From Mather to Leverett to the secret coed rooms in every house, some students are happier ignoring the University rule...
...seems ridiculous to feel like you have to find other women to live with if your friends are guys," says Ellen V. Emerson '87, who will be living in in a coed crowd of seven in Leverett Tower next year...
...finally accepted after three years of work, you hold your doctoral certificate in hand and you are now a full-fledged member of the academic elite. But as the field of academics continues to tighten up, you and growing numbers of other Ph.D. 's are realizing that the ivory tower is not the only place to look for a successful career...
...clear, simple axes and pitched-roof profile are classical, and the expansive ectoskeletal shed seems snatched from some 19th century dream of the 20th. The building's priapic pivot alludes to Bohm's own pioneering work: the central spiraling stair could be an ancestor or descendant of the tower at Bensberg...
SASC also felt compelled to add a new twist to the shantytown concept, the "Ivory Tower," so that its display might not be perceived as an uncreative imitation of other schools' divestiture movements. This tower also exhibits the inherent contradiction in SASC's argument. In its "Letter," SASC writes that "the Ivory Tower, another familiar symbol, represents the distance, the apartness, and the isolation of universities. Yet our university cannot be a removed entity." Instead, it is the divestiture movement which is erecting its own ivory tower by supporting self-indulgent moral isolationism. One of the few manners in which...