Sather Gate: Under Construction
Oct. 13th, 2008 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aA couple of months ago, I wrote about Sather Gate, one of the two most iconic images of the UC Berkeley campus.
Now, it appears that it's going onto the operating table before it falls down:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/13/BA0J13GBMG.DTL
Says the article:
What amuses me most is that they now have scaffolding up and the whole center of the gate blocked, allowing access only along the sides, and this is apparently causing chaos on campus:
There of course are easy ways around the jam, because there are additional bridges across the creek within a few hundred feet both up and down stream, but you can't really expect that what pretends to be a journalist in today's world will figure that out; especially not when they're too busy showing how clever they are with dumb-ass metaphors like "overdue, something like a freshman's term paper" and "the blue book wars." Where's an editor when you need one? In any case, I expect that students will figure out how to detour around within a week or so.
Now, it appears that it's going onto the operating table before it falls down:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/13/BA0J13GBMG.DTL
Says the article:
The bronze work was beginning to split and bulge at the seams, and the interior steel frame was disintegrating. Horner said something had to be done before the next big earthquake, which is overdue, something like a freshman's term paper.
What amuses me most is that they now have scaffolding up and the whole center of the gate blocked, allowing access only along the sides, and this is apparently causing chaos on campus:
It was a bottleneck, and there was no easy way around the jam without splashing through Strawberry Creek.
Foot traffic backed up for 25 feet in both directions. More than a few bright-eyed northbound students, heading off do battle with midterm exams, bumped smack into a few bleary-eyed southbound ones, returning from the blue book wars.
There of course are easy ways around the jam, because there are additional bridges across the creek within a few hundred feet both up and down stream, but you can't really expect that what pretends to be a journalist in today's world will figure that out; especially not when they're too busy showing how clever they are with dumb-ass metaphors like "overdue, something like a freshman's term paper" and "the blue book wars." Where's an editor when you need one? In any case, I expect that students will figure out how to detour around within a week or so.