http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1996/02/18#campus-architecture <blockquote> William Irwin Thompson ... likens the way students were treating dorms and campuses in the late '60s to Navajo Indians driving across their reservation in a pick-up truck, tossing beer-cans out the windows, saying that in both cases you had a complete disregard for one's heritage. <br>---<A HREF="http://geocities.com/paris/chateau/1500/">Mitchell Porter</a> </blockquote> Well, not <em>just</em> the late '60s... <P>Is there any connection between the styles of buildings on a campus, and the frequency and intensity of student unrest? If so, what is the most ``revolutionary'' style of architecture --- and do the revolutionaries <em>like</em> it? How about to mere student depravity and deliquency? <P>See ``Blowing the Zoo to Kingdom Come'', <cite>Lingua franca</cite> Dec. 1991, for an argument that high-rise dorms turn students into (at best) barbarians. This is probably true. The best fictional treatment of this is Neal Stephenson's <cite>The Big U</cite>; probably anyone who's attended a large American university in the last few decades will find parts of this true to life, all too true to life. But be warned it was his first novel.