Slylark for B and E?

The Editor,

Many of the buildings on this campus are named after dignitaries few of us remember. I suspect the new Business and Economics Building will one day share this fate. To avert this dull possibility, I make the following proposal.

"Business and Economics" cannot last. It's inevitably shortened to "B and E", which evokes "Breaking and Entering," a subversion which is comic, sinister and possibly apt.

This building stands on a patch of ground which was once home to that rare and tuneful bird, the skylark. The morning songs of these birds once cheered us as we came to work. I therefore propose the B and E Building be renamed "Skylark".

The name Skylark has a number of advantages:

(a) it is ironic (this campus needs irony);

(b) it is poetic (all those 'to a skylark' poems);

(c) it is environmentally-friendly (it's good to look green);

(d) it is eternal (skylarks will exist long after dignitaries are forgotten);

(e) it prevents memoricide (in this name, the history of the space is preserved)

(f) it is warm and uplifting (metaphorically-speaking).

I hope those who have the authority to name buildings on this campus will take this proposal into serious consideration.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

J. Douglas Porteous

 

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