Weather Update
Due to the storm, Barnard College closed at 4pm Friday, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.
Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information.
The Barnard Library and Archives closed at 4pm Friday and will remain closed on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Library will resume regular hours on Sunday opening at 10am.
Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed. The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open. For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS.
3:12 PM 02/08/2013
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has reached a deal with a private developer to revive and expand the state's $1.9 billion "Xanadu" megamall project, which is "half-finished and widely ridiculed as perhaps the ugliest building in the state, if not the country."
In The New York Times' "Room for Debate" forum, architecture professor David Smiley and others discuss whether Xanadu is worth saving.
"Big-scale dollars should fuel small-scale actions. This means that the tax dollars spent on Xanadu could have been spent, and can still be spent, on rebuilding local retail and community districts that already exist and serve a wide swath of the public," writes Smiley. Read his full response here.
David Smiley's research interests include large-scale urban interventions, the re-use of shopping malls and the recent history of urban planning and urban design. He is author of the forthcoming "Pedestrian Modern" and editor of "Redressing the Mall: Sprawl and Public Space in Suburbia."
