Oh, Elizabeth!
The Old Ghost of St. Louis stirs--
http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7696.html
...it seems that our fairest lady of the downstairs foyer has made quite a name for herself!
But we shall always remember Danforth from the times when it was JUST a dorm.
Or, we can take it as further symbolic indication of the conquest of the world which was set into action on 26 June in the Year of Somebody's Lord 2005.
Is all still well?
I hate Karl Marx.
Love,
Jessi
http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7696.html
...it seems that our fairest lady of the downstairs foyer has made quite a name for herself!
But we shall always remember Danforth from the times when it was JUST a dorm.
Or, we can take it as further symbolic indication of the conquest of the world which was set into action on 26 June in the Year of Somebody's Lord 2005.
Is all still well?
I hate Karl Marx.
Love,
Jessi
posted by goodbye, goodbye at 12:42 PM
2 Comments:
Mmm...
Did it have a name at all before? Perhaps the surname of a set of benefactors less generous/toothsome/esteemed than the long line of Danforths?
I can't properly recall.
But, does the imposition of a donor's name on a dorm/building/campus/ENTIRE INSTITUTION (see: transformation of the New School's undergrad program into "Eugene Lang College") really affect the psychology of the institution? Would our attitudes toward Telluride/Nunn be different if he would have called it L.L. NUNN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BETTERMENT OF SOON-TO-BE-DEMOCRATIC YOUTH?
Obviously, people with the $$$ will pay anything to gain the type of immortality that only institutions with guaranteed longevity can provide. If providing the plaques pumps money into the institution, which probably isn't any other real pedagogical obligation to listen to the whims of the donors (since they presumably LIKE the institution in the first place...except for my high school, in which the billionaire paid the billions to have a school torn down), is the move really so condemnable?
Why do we want places that are "value-free" and not tainted with the mark of someone else's appreciation of the best four years of his/grandpa's/Little Johnny's life?
Does assigning a name to a place really change the value?
Maybe it does.
("Olin," not "the library," but "Brookings" and "The Quad" were pretty much interchangeable.)
And now that I have proven that I can exhaust any topic, no matter how inert, with polemical psychobabble, I shall return to my tasks at hand and re-assume the aura of the humble student.
Who is quite glad that she lives in a place named for location rather than origin-of-the-dollar.
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