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

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Hmm. That addition to business looks like the

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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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vault for their art collections! t'Art and Architecture was built in 45 A.K.-After Kafka. tilt looks like it was built in some nameless society. f'The whole complex would be great if there were vines crawling up the walls and spilling off the roof. But they insist on those stupid palm trees. The library, sitting aloofly in its moat of space, looks like the high temple of some questionable ancient faith. Really, it's pompous. Oh, I like the library. It's so grandiose. If the library were in the Middle East, someone would be buried in it. It makes a great pigeon roost. Why did they add that pile of ce- ment to Business? It has zero to do with the rest of the building? Wow, they must be teaching courses in prison administration in there. What is this? Fort Apache? I thought the Indians had quit attacking a long time ago. HWhat an abortion. At first, looking around this cam- pus you can't see the university for the buildings. But the more you look, the more trees you see. There still aren't enough, but there are more than it seems like there are. Is this con- fusing? There are a lot of things about this campus that confuse me. Buildings- 29