Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Ao X3y Q ; a;. LR R BT R The new buildings that have been going up on campus represent a change toward technology. However, as Brown moves forward into mod- ernization, it keeps its traditions as well. Superstitions abound within the Brown community such as: If you visit all of the libraries during your freshman year, you won't graduate. Stepping on the step that leads up to the Pembroke Campus with the Brown Seal on it evokes at least two versions of what the stepper's fate will be: You'll never marry or You'll remain a virgin. The Carrie Tower seems to be a favorite setting for sto- ries of tradition. How many brave souls have been able to search out the tunnels running underneath it? How many Freshmen of days gone by had and RADITION waited for their secret rendezvous with Miss Carrie Tower only to be stood up? Way up. The new additions to the Brown architecture may some day accumu- late their own lore; but, for now, peo- ple are content to wonder at the won- ders of what we can do with what we already have. The CIT dedication in- cluded a spectacular display of com- puter generated graphics that repre- sented some of the possibilites for the future with computers. Thomas J. Watson, Jr. '37, John Sculley '61, and Fred Wang '72 all had words to say about the emerging role of the com- puter as a cultural tool and the need to extend the accessibility of new technology to everyone. Far left: Carrie Tower. Left: The Brown Bear outside of Marvel Gym. wopsopy Ky Technology and Tradition13

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Morton Right: The new addition to the Bio-medical Center. Below: The Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center, dedicated on February 10 and 11, 1989 and opened in April 1989. Below middle: The Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Center for Information Technology, dedicated on October 7 and 8, 1989. Far below left: The Pizzitola completes the centralization of Brown's athletic facilities begun in 1962. Far below right: One and a Half sculpted by Carla Lavatelli and donated by Artemis 55 and Martha Joukowsky 'S8 stands in front of the Sci-Li and the new CIT. Inset: The new wing added to the Bio-Med Center against the Providence skyline. 12Technology and Tradition

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Although going to the library seems to be a necessary evil at times especially dur- ing exams, the Brown libraries provide some of the most important building blocks for creating the new curriculum's vision of an imaginative and challenging education. This year, the library system is enjoying a very special addition to its col- lection the acquisition of its two-mil- lionth book. The book itself is a first edi- tion in Russian of Ivan Pavlov's Lectures Ea o rton Above left: Taking a break on the mezzanine in the Sciences Library. Above: Ned Klingelhofer '89, comfortable in an armchair at the Pembroke Library. Above right: Looking for yet another book in the stacks of the Rockefeller Library. Right: Looks like nobody's at the + IBRARIES on the Function of the Main Food-Digest- ing Glands. It is important for having intro- duced new methods of experimental re- search. Of the thirteen copies known to exist, six of them are in the Soviet Union. One of them is now in the Albert E. Lownes Collection of Significant Books in the History of Science and Library of the Rhode Island Medical Society and is housed in the John Hay. Amy Morton Rock today. rion 14Libraries