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−	[[Image:Uris.jpg\|thumb\|240px\|1980s facade of Uris Hall: lipstick on an originally even uglier pig]]	+	[[Image:Uris.jpg\|thumb\|240px\|1980s cover-up facade of 1960s Uris Hall: lipstick on an originally even uglier pig]]

	'''Uris Hall''' housed, until [[2022]], [[Columbia Business School]]. It has also housed [[Uris Deli]] and a loud library, the [[Business and Economics Library]]. It is named for donors [[Harold Uris]] and [[Percy Uris]].		'''Uris Hall''' housed, until [[2022]], [[Columbia Business School]]. It has also housed [[Uris Deli]] and a loud library, the [[Business and Economics Library]]. It is named for donors [[Harold Uris]] and [[Percy Uris]].

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 <gallery>
 Image:Flickr-lordcolus-uris.jpg|Uris with [[Curl]]
-Image:picketers.jpg|Protests at Uris Hall's dedication, [[1961]]
+Image:picketers.jpg|Protests at Uris Hall's dedication, [[1964]]
-Image:UrisOld.jpg|Uris Hall on completion in [[1961]], without the recently added extension on the entrance
+Image:UrisOld.jpg|Uris Hall on completion in [[1964]], without the recently added extension on the entrance
 Image:Urisplan.jpg|Rendering of the new addition to Uris's facade
 </gallery>

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 ==History==
-Uris Hall was built on the foundation for the never-completed [[University Hall]]. Its design, by the firm Moore & Hutchins, was intended to continue (or at least reflect) the campus north-south axis of monumental stone-faced buildings; its strong vertical element attempted to echo the columns of [[Butler Library|Butler]] and [[Low Library|Low Libraries]]. Despite this, the building was considered so ugly that architecture students picketed its dedication in [[1964]], holding signs reading "No More [[Mudd Hall|Mudd]]s". It remains among the ugliest campus buildings to this day.
+Uris Hall was built on the foundation for the never-completed [[University Hall]]. The space between Uris and Low Library is the Frank Whittemore Abrams Court, in honor of the former chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (and [[honorary degree]] recipient (L.L.D.) in 1955), as part of larger gift from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19641125-01.2.8</ref> The Court featured a pair of fountains that shot jets of water 8 feet into the air.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19650927-01.2.5</ref> They are long gone, replaced by the sculpture ''[[Curl]]''.
-The space between Uris and Low Library is the Frank Whittemore Abrams Court, in honor of the former chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (and [[honorary degree]] recipient (L.L.D.) in 1955), as part of larger gift from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19641125-01.2.8</ref> The Court featured a pair of fountains that shot jets of water 8 feet into the air.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19650927-01.2.5</ref> They are long gone.
+Uris' design, by the firm Moore & Hutchins, was intended to continue (or at least reflect) the campus north-south axis of monumental stone-faced buildings; its strong vertical element attempted to echo the columns of [[Butler Library|Butler]] and [[Low Library|Low Libraries]]. Despite this, the building was considered so ugly that architecture students picketed its dedication in [[1964]], holding signs reading "No More [[Mudd Hall|Mudd]]s". It remains among the ugliest campus buildings to this day.
 In [[1978]], the building was occupied by protesters demanding [[Apartheid divestment protests|divestment from apartheid South Africa]]. In [[1984]], a slightly nicer facade was stuck on the front, in an obvious attempt to soften the building's appearance.

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 ==History==
-Uris Hall was built on the foundation for the never-completed [[University Hall]]. Its design, by the firm Moore & Hutchins, was intended to continue (or at least reflect) the campus north-south axis of monumental stone-faced buildings; its strong vertical element attempted to echo the columns of [[Butler Library|Butler]] and [[Low Library|Low Libraries]]. Despite this, the building was considered so ugly that architecture students picketed its dedication in [[1964]], holding signs reading "No More [[Mudd Hall|Mudd]]s". Despite an attempted to rein in its ugliness with a [[1984]] addition, it remains among the ugliest campus buildings to this day.
+Uris Hall was built on the foundation for the never-completed [[University Hall]]. Its design, by the firm Moore & Hutchins, was intended to continue (or at least reflect) the campus north-south axis of monumental stone-faced buildings; its strong vertical element attempted to echo the columns of [[Butler Library|Butler]] and [[Low Library|Low Libraries]]. Despite this, the building was considered so ugly that architecture students picketed its dedication in [[1964]], holding signs reading "No More [[Mudd Hall|Mudd]]s". It remains among the ugliest campus buildings to this day.
 The space between Uris and Low Library is the Frank Whittemore Abrams Court, in honor of the former chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (and [[honorary degree]] recipient (L.L.D.) in 1955), as part of larger gift from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19641125-01.2.8</ref> The Court featured a pair of fountains that shot jets of water 8 feet into the air.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19650927-01.2.5</ref> They are long gone.
-In [[1978]], the building was occupied by protesters demanding [[Apartheid divestment protests|divestment from apartheid South Africa]]. In the 80s, a slightly nicer facade was stuck on the front, in an obvious attempt to soften the building's appearance.
+In [[1978]], the building was occupied by protesters demanding [[Apartheid divestment protests|divestment from apartheid South Africa]]. In [[1984]], a slightly nicer facade was stuck on the front, in an obvious attempt to soften the building's appearance.
-In an attempt to give its students their own exclusive space, the Business School set about in recent years to deter undergraduates from using the building, revoking the ability to use [[Dining Dollars]] at the deli, removing [[Flex]] capacity from the copiers, and placing the building's computers on a separate network.
+In an attempt to give its students their own exclusive space, the Business School set about in its later years in the hall to deter undergraduates from using the building, revoking the ability to use [[Dining Dollars]] at the deli, removing [[Flex]] capacity from the copiers, and placing the building's computers on a separate network.
 Not content with these moves, the Business School has announced its intention to move to a new facility within the planned [[Manhattanville campus]]. It was unclear what would really occupy Uris following the school's relocation. Demolition and replacement may be one option that would satisfy the building's architectural detractors, though it is more likely the building will be employed for some expedient use, such as academic office space. The somewhat scattered and occasionally itinerant [[Economics Department]] is a natural choice to occupy at least part of the space. Yet even this move is not so simple, as there were rumors that the engineering school wants to claim the first four floors for classroom space.

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 [[Image:Uris.jpg|thumb|240px|1980s facade of Uris Hall: lipstick on an originally even uglier pig]]
-'''Uris Hall''' housed, until [[2022]], [[Columbia Business School]], as well as the [[Uris Deli]] and a loud library, the [[Business and Economics Library]]. It is named for donors [[Harold Uris]] and [[Percy Uris]]
+'''Uris Hall''' housed, until [[2022]], [[Columbia Business School]]. It has also housed [[Uris Deli]] and a loud library, the [[Business and Economics Library]]. It is named for donors [[Harold Uris]] and [[Percy Uris]].
 There are also top secret meeting rooms there, but they're secret, so I can't write about them here. Perhaps the kind of places where one might find Bain Lehman, the bastard love-child of Merrill Stanley and JPSachs.

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 In an attempt to give its students their own exclusive space, the Business School set about in recent years to deter undergraduates from using the building, revoking the ability to use [[Dining Dollars]] at the deli, removing [[Flex]] capacity from the copiers, and placing the building's computers on a separate network.
-Not content with these moves, the Business School has announced its intention to move to a new facility within the planned [[Manhattanville campus]]. It is unclear what will occupy Uris following the school's relocation. Demolition and replacement may be one option that would satisfy the building's architectural detractors, though it is more likely the building will be employed for some expedient use, such as academic office space. The somewhat scattered and occasionally itinerant [[Economics Department]] is a natural choice to occupy at least part of the space. Yet even this move is not so simple, as there have been rumors that the engineering school wants to claim the first 4 floors for classroom space. Undoubtedly, other departments will try to claim space as well, and a great many bureaucratic battles will be fought to determine who gets Uris.
+Not content with these moves, the Business School has announced its intention to move to a new facility within the planned [[Manhattanville campus]]. It was unclear what would really occupy Uris following the school's relocation. Demolition and replacement may be one option that would satisfy the building's architectural detractors, though it is more likely the building will be employed for some expedient use, such as academic office space. The somewhat scattered and occasionally itinerant [[Economics Department]] is a natural choice to occupy at least part of the space. Yet even this move is not so simple, as there were rumors that the engineering school wants to claim the first four floors for classroom space.
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 ==History==
 Uris Hall was built on the foundation for the never-completed [[University Hall]]. Its design, by the firm Moore & Hutchins, was intended to continue (or at least reflect) the campus north-south axis of monumental stone-faced buildings; its strong vertical element attempted to echo the columns of [[Butler Library|Butler]] and [[Low Library|Low Libraries]]. Despite this, the building was considered so ugly that architecture students picketed its dedication in [[1961]], holding signs reading "No More [[Mudd Hall|Mudd]]s". Despite an attempted to rein in its ugliness with a [[1984]] addition, it remains among the ugliest campus buildings to this day.
 In [[1978]], the building was occupied by protesters demanding [[Apartheid divestment protests|divestment from apartheid South Africa]].
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 == External links ==
 *[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2005/12/08/Opinion/Uris-A.Monumental.Offense-2029378.shtml Uris, A Monumental Offense] - ''[[Spec]]'' op-ed by [[Chris Szabla]], demanding Uris' immediate demolition
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