Saturday, September 21, 2002

i got the ol’ alumni

i got the ol’ alumni magazine yesterday and there is a lot of information in it about campus, with some cool maps. i love maps, i can spent inordinte amounts of time staring at them.  so, i was staring at this map and found a number of intriguing entries.  for example, when i went there we had the “hospital of the univ. of pa.” now sickly students and tumerous teachers get to chek themselves into the infinitely more comforting, “hospital of the univ. of pa. health system.” see, now its a system.  systems work.  so you get better faster.  quite a system they’ve got going.  on the other hand, there’s the “woodland” college house.  any building with more than 15 male undergraduates probably qualifies to be called by this name; i’d be curious as to the selection process this one endured to win the title.  Then there’s the “stellar-chance labs.” i can’t tell if thats a good chance or a poor chance.  there are large buildings described by initials: BRB; vagellos IAST, and my own favorite, the LRSM: labs for research into the structure of matter, as it turns out.  But my overall favorite is the new mainwaring wing of the magnificent early-renaissance-revival redbrick museum, with its associated new stoner courtyard.  talk about truth in advertising.  if those walls could talk, and could remember anything, they’d tell you that’s been a stoner courtyard for nigh on a dog’s age… heh… ‘nigh’