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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Munger Hall or Munger Hell - Part 2

Our Halloween blog post dealt with this matter.* But the discussion continues:

Architect slams UC Santa Barbara mega-dorm as ‘social, psychological experiment,’ quits in protest

Los Angeles Times (Christian Martinez)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-01/uc-santa-barbara-mega-dorm-slammed-architect-quits-in-protest

 

Editorial: Donors should give to universities with no strings, not dictate their look or academics

Los Angeles Times (Editorial Board)

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-02/editorial-donors-should-give-to-universities-with-no-strings

 

Opinion: Why the mega dorm at UC Santa Barbara will be disastrous for student life

Los Angeles Times (Dennis McFadden)

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-01/ucsb-megadorm-santa-barbara-charles-munger-design

 

Opinion: Dear UC Santa Barbara: Don’t let a petulant billionaire build a prison dorm on your campus

Los Angeles Times (Carolina A. Miranda)

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-11-01/charlie-munger-designs-uc-santa-barbara-windowless-dorm-billionaire-prison-dorm

 

Here's what it's like to live in one of Charlie Munger's windowless dorms

CNN (Ramishah Maruf)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/munger-residences-michigan-windowless/index.html

 

Munger on controversial UCSB dorm: Fake windows are better than real windows (Video)

CNN (Matt Egan)

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/11/02/munger-hall-ucsb-dorm-controversy-gr-orig.cnn

 

Planned windowless dorm at UC Santa Barbara stirs controversy

EdSource (Carolyn Jones)

https://edsource.org/news-updates#planned-windowless-dorm-at-uc-santa-barbara-stirs-controversy 


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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/10/munger-hall-or-munger-hell.html.

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Comment: At the end of the day, if a UC chancellor gets fixated on having some large, externally-funded capital project go forward, it eventually happens. Even if regents express doubts, it goes forward. Long time readers of this blog will recall UCLA's Grand Hotel as our campus's runaway train.


Seems like there was a movie along these lines:



Or direct to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A02F0InR-dw.

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