What did they do to my campus?
If this is your first time on campus since 2001, two new construction projects are underway that may alternately delight, infuriate, and disorient you.
The collegiate gothic fortress arising behind Dillon Gym is Whitman College, the University's sixth residential college and gift of eBay CEO Meg Whitman '77. The Pagoda Tennis Courts are gone, though the pagoda itself was saved and moved down campus. Before the tennis courts, the site was occupied from 1863 until 1960 by Brokaw Field.
Across Elm Drive from Whitman is your last chance to view Butler College (the 'New New Quad') before the eyesore is demolished next summer.
The concrete and steel jumble between the Center for Jewish Life and Fine Hall is the backbone of a new science library funded by the ever-generous Peter Lewis '55. When completed, this Frank Gehry-designed structure will resemble the Guggenheim Bilbao. If Gehry's modernist architecture makes you apoplectic, go stare at Whitman College for a while. You will feel much better.
-- Ross Liemer '08, Princetonian senior writer
The collegiate gothic fortress arising behind Dillon Gym is Whitman College, the University's sixth residential college and gift of eBay CEO Meg Whitman '77. The Pagoda Tennis Courts are gone, though the pagoda itself was saved and moved down campus. Before the tennis courts, the site was occupied from 1863 until 1960 by Brokaw Field.
Across Elm Drive from Whitman is your last chance to view Butler College (the 'New New Quad') before the eyesore is demolished next summer.
The concrete and steel jumble between the Center for Jewish Life and Fine Hall is the backbone of a new science library funded by the ever-generous Peter Lewis '55. When completed, this Frank Gehry-designed structure will resemble the Guggenheim Bilbao. If Gehry's modernist architecture makes you apoplectic, go stare at Whitman College for a while. You will feel much better.
-- Ross Liemer '08, Princetonian senior writer
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