Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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5? Last spring we held the planning meetings for the demonstrations in Murdock. What a contrast with this enormous, lethargic class. To me, the math tower is the only building around here that soars. The other tall buildings defeat their height. Everything else just squats, but math leaps upward. It's beauti- ful, orderly. The math building is the most gaudy attempt around here to steal attention away from the UofA. It's a shame that we have to attract atten- tion through our buildings. UI thought I was crazy or stupid or something, until I found someone else who had been wondering about the same thing. How did the construction workers plan to remove the big crane from the top of the life science addi- tion when they finished with it? The campus is so physically changeable. There are always new buildings risingg some section of campus blocked off. . .noise! Of course this school doesn't have ivy-covered walls and a Victorian architectural tradition. Why should it? This school is young and hardly in a four season setting. What this school has is a campus with a tremendous amount of texture and variety. People should attempt to recognize that. Buildings- 27

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26 Bl d'g n.,.,T...! ....1,w,,.,,,,.,,,,,,,,,, J at t n fmgwmag, Taliesin Foundation may know about buildings but it has a lot to learn about cakes. ,wg A A k., . if. At Christmas, some people in the physical plant were going to put giant wooden candles on the roof of the new music building and hang a sign from it saying Happy Birthday, Baby Jesusf' I wonder why they didn't do it. 4'The Taliesin Foundation did that? They've sure lost the Master's Touch. Murdock Hall is neat, but I can't say the same about the lecture classes I've had inside it.

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Hmm. That addition to business looks like the