Entries in the Category "Buildings and Sculptures"
It's Too Darn Hot
Cleveland in the winter makes heat a very relevant topic. With a windchill that typically drops below 0 Fahrenheit, one may think that global warming is the biggest joke of the century. The heating we have today, which is typically electric radiator heating in most public building and central heating in the dormitories, is a wonderful development. People can stride around the Kelvin Smith Library in shorts and a t-shirt, although I often wonder how they get back to where they live. Perhaps they just live in the library.
One does not have to pay a heating bill on campus if you live within the university system, or at least it's lumped in with all the other costs. The situation we live in today, however, has been vastly different. And, of course, the source of one particular legend: the underground passageways.
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Names on the Wall
An odd phenomenon that I have noticed but for which I have no quantitative numbers is that students at Case Western Reserve tend to look down while walking more often than other populations. I am not sure as to the reason; it may be due to the cold, or it may be due to some social reason to avoid eye-contact. But I digress from my main point.
For those who do occasionally look up may have noticed that there are names written along the roof line of the Rockefeller Building on the Main Quad. The names are of famous physicists who have made important contributions to the understanding of classical physics. Nearly everyone recognizes names such as Galileo and Newton. Others are a little more obscure, such as Young and Fresnel, but if you know your physics they are still very relevant today.
But who on Earth are Arago and Gilbert?