In defense of Evan s Evans hall gets a lot of crap, and I don't know why. Now, sure, it has its flaws (the doors to rooms 458 and room 460 lead to exactly the same room, and the back wall of the 4th floor has a picture of a normal distribution curve with an emblematic capital sigma emblazoned across it), but no building is perfect. But Beetle, it's ugly! The only ugly thing about it is the ugly paint they smeared over it's beautiful sides. It was much nicer as a big concrete box, and sent a more appropriate message, to boot. Seriously, it's ugly! It doesn't fit! It's too tall and it's not architecturally (mindless babble goes here). Well, if you like, we can tear it down (releasing pollutants and occupying even more of campus with pereptual construction) and replace it with a more aesthetically pleasing structure... of course, to do so and still keep the same amount of space we're going to have to put it in Memorial Glade, because everyone knows architecturally (mindless babble goes here) structures are required to be pathetically inefficient with space. Math lives there! A common misconception is that the number one attraction of Evans is math. Admittedly, the ground floor may as well be called the Math discussion floor, but most of the building is not math. Also, math kicks the ass of (mindless babble goes here) studies. It's really, really ugly. You're not a work of art yourself. What the heck is particularly ugly about it? It's a box with rooms in it, also known as a "building." Sure, it's no Barrows Hall (a box with rooms in it), it doesn't even compare to Dwinelle (which we all wish was a box so we could find the damn numbered rooms on the lettered floors), and is put to shame by Wheeler (another box with rooms in it, except for one really big room, which is good, I guess), but it seems good enough. posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 10/16/2003 03:16:00 PM # Comments (0) . . .
