It’s been a year of surreal events. Nothing trumps Trump (or the Cubs), but as always, the cultural front offered its own oddities.
You might think this could only happen in 17th-century Salem (or the 20th-century Soviet Union), but if you’re a tenured faculty member at NU unpopular with your colleagues, you could find yourself defending your sanity. After complaints from her department, political science professor and activist Jacqueline Stevens was banned from campus and sent to a shrink for assessment. Did I mention that she’d been investigating the trustees?
- Michelle Boone traded DCASE for a dock.
In the early 1970s, Jahn designed the Thompson Center as a unique Chicago home for state offices, with a soaring, open lobby meant to represent the ideal of transparent governance. This year, after Governor Bruce Rauner put the building up for sale and signaled his approval of its probable demolition, Jahn said he welcomes a prompt sale, thinks private ownership could restore its function as a public center, and wants to do the adaptive design himself.
- The Cape Cod Room is going down.
