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...season to wreak havoc for the men's squash team. Yesterday at Hemenway Gym, the Crimson suavely shut out Franklin & Marshall, bringing its season record to an impressive two 9-0 blowouts...
...that does not mean the building is easy to understand or like. Running its whole, three-city-blocks length is a permanent, jungle gym-like white steel scaffolding. The faux scaffold is inspired: it defines a long outdoor walkway, it plays tricks with perspective (Does the thing tilt up? Down? Are its beams parallel?), and its evocation of construction in progress makes the Wexner Center seem perpetually unfinished, excitingly open-ended...
...fortress mentality is taken literally at Lindbergh Junior High in Long Beach, Calif. After a bullet zinged past the head of gym teacher Joan Reedy last year, the school spent $160,000 to build a 10-ft. wall to separate the rear boundary from a housing project and its gang gunfights. Reedy, for one, is pleased: "Teaching here is so much more relaxed. It's given us a sense of safety, and you can feel the unity of the school growing and growing...
...Salinas Valley town of Hollister (pop. 11,500) experiences temblors so frequently that some of the townspeople proudly call it the Earthquake Capital of the World. At 5:04 p.m., 19-year-old Albert Valles was working out in a gym when he felt the building begin to shake. He ran into the street as the facade gave way, burying his Jeep under an avalanche of bricks. "I would have been finished," Valles marveled. No one was injured. Yet in nearby Watsonville (pop. 23,550), the Bake-Rite Bakery caved in, fatally smashing a passerby...
Working Out, B-School Style: Everyone knows that they do things a little differently across the river, but events this week once again proved the truth of that maxim. The Business School, blessed with an immensely rich pool of alumni and facilities to match, opened what many $18 million gym. It seems you have to have a golden parachute just to enter the place, though. No undergraduates are allowed, and even B-School students must shell out big bucks just to use some of the facilities. The certification required to use the fitness equipment area costs $50, the towel service...