Alumni op: Keep spinning "Po-um (Lyric)"
(10/04/17 4:30am)
Dear Thresher,
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Dear Thresher,
To the Editor,
In response to last week's opinion by Justin Raine, Rice must improve its urban integration.
Rice’s neglected spaces are only neglected if you take human regard and human presence as the only measures of worth. Certainly sitting on a bench under a tree is pleasant, but if every tree has a bench, none of them is special. The introduction of benches or paving in the open or naturally landscaped spaces destroys the natural aspect of the space that is so essential to making it fundamentally different from the more formally structured spaces on campus. Follow a pattern of adding structure to spaces for convenience, and soon there are no empty spaces left at all, and the campus becomes one big parking lot or formal garden with no clear separation of one space from another.