Jerome Greene Hall - Revision history

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 ===Planning===
-In the 1960s, Columbia was expanding the size and resources of its graduate professional schools. Among these, the law school, squeezed into the elegant but cramped [[Kent Hall]], required a new home. Hence Greene, along with [[Uris]] for the [[Business School]], [[Mudd]] for the [[SEAS|Engineering School]], and [[IAB]] for [[SIPA]], was built with donor money solicited by the deans of the respective schools around this time. It has been argued that the primary aims of each dean and donor was to build the most cost-efficient and practical building for the school- and therefore aesthetics weren't really all that important.
+In the 1960s, Columbia was expanding the size and resources of its graduate professional schools. Among these, the law school, squeezed into the elegant but cramped [[Kent Hall]], required a new home. Hence Greene, along with [[Uris Hall]] for the [[Business School]], [[Mudd]] for the [[SEAS|Engineering School]], and [[IAB]] for [[SIPA]], was built with donor money solicited by the deans of the respective schools around this time. It has been argued that the primary aims of each dean and donor was to build the most cost-efficient and practical building for the school- and therefore aesthetics weren't really all that important.
 ===Design===

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 Image:DrapkinLounge.jpg|Drapkin Lounge, built during the extension of Greene in the late 90's
 Image:Lenfest.jpg|[[Lenfest Cafe]], a [[Dining Services|dining services]] location in Greene
-Image:GreeneLobby.jpg|The CLS logo in the new lobby of Greene Hall
+Image:GreeneLobby.jpg|The CLS logo in the new lobby of Greene Hall. It has since been either scrubbed or blasted off when the school changed logo designs. Oops.
 Image:GreeneAddition.gif|Artist's rendering of the addition to Greene Hall
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-[[Category:Buildings on the Morningside Heights campus]]
+[[Category:Buildings]]
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 The building's western facade is graced by Jacques Lipschitz's sculpture ''[[Bellerophon Taming Pegasus]]'', donated in [[1977]]. The sculpture is said to represent the experience CLS 1Ls endure.
-In the late 1990s the Jerome Greene underwent a major renovation, resulting the construction of the new entrance, lounges, and cafeteria, [[Lenfest Cafe]], in an addition fronting on the intersection of [[116th Street|116th]] and [[Amsterdam Avenue|Amsterdam]]. This was followed by gut renovations of the building's classrooms and offices, and the installation of the infamous "Skadden Stairs," named for a New York law firm.
+In the late 1990s the Jerome Greene underwent a major renovation, resulting the construction of the new entrance, lounges, and cafeteria, [[Lenfest Cafe]], in an addition fronting on the intersection of [[116th Street|116th]] and [[Amsterdam Avenue|Amsterdam]] designed by [[James Stewart Polshek]]. This was followed by gut renovations of the building's classrooms and offices, and the installation of the infamous "Skadden Stairs," named for a New York law firm.
 Among the renovations was the installation of what must be one of the campus' finest bathrooms, rivaled only by the 19th century marble of [[Low Library]]'s first level lavatories.
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 [[Image:JeromeGreene.jpg|thumb|300px|Jerome Greene Hall]]
-'''Jerome Greene Hall''' (sometimes referred to simply as '''Greene''') is the primary home of [[Columbia Law School]] and is one of a number of buildings put up in succession by Columbia in the 1960s. It is named after wealthy alumnus [[Jerome L. Greene]]. Often criticized as being ugly by outsiders, law students also think it is ugly.
+'''Jerome Greene Hall''' (sometimes referred to simply as '''Greene''') is the primary home of [[Columbia Law School]] and is one of a number of buildings put up in succession by Columbia in the 1960s. It is named after wealthy alumnus [[Jerome L. Greene]]. Often criticized as being ugly by outsiders, some law students, perhaps suffering from architectural stockholm syndrome, have been known to develop a certain fondness for it. Other law students agree with critics and find it to be plain ugly.
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 Among the renovations was the installation of what must be one of the campus' finest bathrooms, rivaled only by the 19th century marble of [[Low Library]]'s first level lavatories.
 ==Pictures==