In the past year the President of our College has presided over the opening of the library (slightly before her term, but only just), the demolition of the old library, the opening of the Aquatic Center, the demolition of a few more buildings, and new lights in some of the parking lots. An auspicious beginning, for sure.
We recently received a Letter From the President where she outlined that according to committee we will now change the name of just about every building on campus. My favorite change was the Aquatic Center's morphing over to the Kinesiology, Health Education and Aquatics Complex. Everything is a complex now: West Complex, Central Complex, and East Complex. But the Science Building to Canyon Hall? The Cafeteria to Crafton Hall? It's bad enough that the name of my college sounds like a boys' prep school, but we certainly are going to a high register level of language on the naming.
I wonder if I mailed out a Letter From the Adjunct, thanking everyone for their support, and announcing sweeping new changes in an area or two, if anyone would read it? No. The name of the Adjunct Game is Keep Your Head Down. And now that I've used up my supply of upper-case letters, and the prose is flattening out, it's time to move from my Johns Hopkins Sewing Studio into my John Q. Harvard Living Room.
2 comments:
Love the names. I'm headed now to my own home Aquatic Complex. (Formerly known as the bathroom.)
I find the focus on the word "Complex" intriguing. Lots of parts? Very complicated? A psychological syndrome? The latter, I think.
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