Construction plans moving along

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>[The</a> Brown Daily Herald - Faunce overhaul headlines summer construction](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/faunce-overhaul-headlines-summer-construction-1.1730121]The”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/faunce-overhaul-headlines-summer-construction-1.1730121)</p>

<p>Some nice stuff coming to college hill. I wish we could finish raising money for the Nelson Fitness Center, but it appears that after the initial donation, people have decided the project is no longer sexy enough to fund.</p>

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<p>Maybe the planned renovation of Faunce is why they haven’t painted or scraped the trim since I’ve been here. Too bad Wriston doesn’t have any excuses.</p>

<p>also: <a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/polopoly_fs/1.1730271!image/486633390.jpg[/url]”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/polopoly_fs/1.1730271!image/486633390.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>not impressed.</p>

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<p>it’s not that the nelson fitness center isn’t sexy enough to fund</p>

<p>it’s just that in the past, when you wanted to construct a new building for tens of millions of dollars, you would fund raise a small part and then take out debt while you wait for the rest to come in. however, in these economic times they actually want as much of the cash on hand as possible.</p>

<p>harvard has stopped constructing altogether.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but even before the financial crisis the Nelson Fitness center was mired by various set backs, some related to funding and some not. I actually think Brown is being very responsible with these new changes and I’m glad to see them only slow our improvement rather than halt it.</p>

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<p>I’m not a big fan of some of the construction, so I was more interested in the editorial in today’s BDH, advocating for expanding orientation and changing TWTP. [The</a> Brown Daily Herald - Editorial: Expand orientation, move TWTP](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/editorial-expand-orientation-move-twtp-1.1730161]The”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/editorial-expand-orientation-move-twtp-1.1730161)</p>

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<p>I think the shortening of orientation was a huge mistake. The argument is one that non-TWTP (myself included) have been making in various forums for some time, but the TWTP people are really uniformly against the change.</p>

<p>This is the most interesting thing in the BDH. See if you can guess why ;).
[The</a> Brown Daily Herald - More active writing enforcement in store](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/more-active-writing-enforcement-in-store-1.1730132]The”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/more-active-writing-enforcement-in-store-1.1730132)</p>

<p>I had a large cowritten article in the post- today but it hasn’t gone live online yet for some reason.</p>

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<p>“The University’s most compelling justification for the current length of Orientation is that the old system resulted in more alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct among first-years. If evidence existed to support such a claim, we might agree. In fact, recent crime records suggest the opposite: In 2007, the first year in which the shortened Orientation was used, there were three times as many forcible sex offenses on campus as in 2006.”</p>

<p>It seems as though they are making the argument that the number of occurrences of forcible sex offenses for the entire 12 month periods of 2006 and 2007 are somehow correlated to the amount of forcible sex offenses that occurred during orientation in 2006, and 2007.</p>

<p>Anyone else see a logical fallacy?</p>

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<p>Shorter orientation = cheaper. That’s why they did it, and honestly everything else is just excuses.</p>