The University ought to invite student and faculty input not only on building use but architectural matters. When University Hall is renovated this summer, will those wonderful great round-headed doors on the first floor remain? Will wooden floors across campus be carpeted over as has happened in the Barker center? (You can hear tantalizing creaks beneath your feet in the English department.) To some degree, the honest, dated feel of the Science Center is preferable to the sanitized feel of Harvard Hall which tries to be all things to all people but only succeeds in feeling endlessly renovated. For better or worse, the Pudding building was occupied for more than a century by its namesake; it should bear some trace of this and of its antiquity.

Rick DuPuy '03

April 12, 2000

Jesus Week Promotes Unity Despite Diversity

To the editors:

We feel that the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Students Association (CSA) was misrepresented in "Christian Groups United But Torn by Upcoming 'Jesus Week'" (News, April 12). The Catholic Students Association is united with other Christian organization on campus in organizing and participating in Jesus Week, and we do not agree that there is a lack of unity between the CSA and other Christian groups in this project.

We find it quite difficult to speak for the entire Catholic community at Harvard. There are a great number of Catholics at Harvard, and with this large number comes a large diversity. Would some of the events and posters connected with Jesus Week make more than a few Catholics uncomfortable? It certainly is possible, but one must realize that even some of the events that the CSA runs make more than a few Catholics uncomfortable as well.