Today, the Editorial Board took on the disaster of "Club EC." Since every single person we talked to this weekend complained about this issue, we wanted to bring it to Spectrum. Please feel free to respond or share your EC horror stories in the comments.
In 1981, Ada Louise Huxtable, writing in the New York Times, described the entrance to East Campus as the “most skilled and unusual feature” of the then-new dormitory. After the events of this weekend, we have to wonder why Huxtable furnished such glowing praise on an architectural design so poorly suited for its intended function: allowing students to enter (and exit) East Campus.
This weekend, we saw the dissonance between Huxtable’s words and the truth on the ground. As has been the case since time immemorial, there were lines of Communist-era proportions outside of EC. We understand that one of the reasons there are always such long lines is the miserable design of EC’s entrances. But much of the blame, we have to say, must be laid on the security apparatus in place in East Campus.
