<p>except Georgian architecture is pretty boring...hello! this is not harvard were talking about here!</p>
<p>rd31,
You're wrong, unfortunately, on a few points. The $3.5 billion is the size of the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign -- which is raising money for the entire university, not merely the new colleges. The colleges -- and the commensurate increase in faculty, library resources, etc. -- will be paid for, in part, by the $500 million the Corporation tacked onto what previously had been a $3 billion campaign.</p>
<p>Also, don't be so sure about the architecture. The university hasn't said anything about that. The YD"N" has claimed, citing unnamed sources, that the colleges will be Georgian. But who the hell knows.</p>
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WG</p>
<p>oh you're right; i didn't read that carefully enough. they're going to pay for the expansion on resources with the $600 million allotted for the colleges? that's unfortunate.</p>
<p>this only adds to my qualms about the expansion...</p>
<p>What are they thinking? Hope they have some secret money stashed away somewhere...</p>
<p>The issue of "more construction on campus" is a non-issue. Can anyone recall the last time there WASN'T major construction going on? I still recall the construction workers on the roof of McClellan purposefully waking us up at 7AM with their show tunes. Out of tune "Oklahoma!" haha. </p>
<p>The fact is Yale is a dynamic place and new structures are going up, old ones being restored ALL THE TIME. Plus, the projected site won't inconvenience most of the daily goings on of most of the Y community. Remember the complaints of it being "too far from campus center"?</p>