Nordlinger Watch 5
Finally, a new Nordlinger Watch. Preservationist NIMBY liberals aren’t the only ones who get upset when the U tears down an old building and want to get rid of parking; National Review’s Jay Nordlinger goes to the mat for his friend William Paton, after whose father the Paton Accounting Center is named. The building is slated for demolition to make room for new business school construction, but Paton, Jr. proposes tearing down the parking structure next door instead. Unlike those of the Frieze Building’s stalwarts, his arguments don’t appear to have anything to do with the historic architecture or aesthetic value of the building; perhaps the university could compromise by renaming the garage the “Paton Parking Center”?
If I am not mistaken, the Paton Accounting center was named after a business professor who was a prominent proponent of firing faculty members suspected of being communist sympathizers during the McCarthy Era.
posted by CRH on October 8th, 2005 at 6:20 pm