The Daily Tar Heel Thursday: February 261987711
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By MEMSEY PRICE
Staff Writer
Thai tacky sculpture in front of
Davis .""The Old Well." and "Silent
Sam" are all possible answers the
average Carolina student could make
n the question "What are your
campus landmarks?"
But what about college Janes and
Johns on other campuses? What sorts
of stories do they have to tell about
their campus hot spots?
Across the country at the Univer
sity ol California at Berkeley, one
might expect the central feature of
the camnus to involve student pro
tests and "hippie" types. It does.
Sproul Plaa adjoins the steps of the
main administration building (the
site ol many protests, most recently
against Apartheid and U.S. involve
ment in Central America).
. In the center of the Plaa is a
fountain that is usually crawling with
students enjoying the mild temper
atures. On days when the weather is
nice, -a retired professor delivers
stand-up comedy routines in Sproul,
lampooning everything from Ronald
Reagan to the students themselves.
Speaking of lampooning, at Har
vard University, a famous and
somewhat mysterious landmark is
the Harvard Lampoon Building. A
long, narrow building, it is off-limits
to absolutely everyone but staff
members of the Lampoon.
I vw campus landmarks that have
rather dubious distinctions are at
( ornell University and the University
of Texas at Austin.
I he geography that surrounds
Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y.. provides
many naturally occuring valleys and
rifts spanned by a great number of
man-made bridges that arc the sites
ol many suicides and '-suicide
attempts.
Similarly, the bell tower at UT
became famous in the early 1970s,
when a gunman climbed to its top
and opened fire, massacring several
bystanders.
Yale University's Harkness Tower
is lamous for different reasons.' Until
the 40 tons of bells were installed and
' steel support beams were added, the
Harkness Tower was the tallest free
standing tower in the United States.
But in order to make the stones of
the Gothic architecture look more
dignified and aged, the university
scrubbed the stone face of the tower
with acid.
At two schools close to home, the
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A very different perspective of The Bell Tower
distinctive landmarks are a combi
nation ol the traditional and the
somewhat bizarre.
At Duke, there is. of course, the
famous Gothic style Chapel and
at North Carolina State, a more
unique campus feature than the
"State College" Bell Tower is the
"Free-expression Tunnel." The tun
nel crosses under the railroad tracks
that run through the campus. Fra
ternities and sororities, as well as just
eager (and especially "expressive")
students decorate the tunnel with lots
of bizarre and colorful grafitti.
And finally, included in the
unique-biarre-break-with- tradition
landmark category is Virginia Tech.
A professor there designed a campus
building to resemble a very modern
item. It is shaped to look exactly like
a computer punch card .
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