University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 4, 1970
Fraser Hall...
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Infamous Fraser Hall Dominates the University of Kansas Skyline
Fraser's Desolate Front Entrance Welcomes Students to Class
Symmetrical Hallway Appears as Mirror Image
FRASER HALL
Mind Puzzle—Are Any Exactly Alike?
... Is It Really That Bad?
Starbursts Gleam
Complete Line of Stereo Equipment
- Console
* Component
* Speakers
* Tape Decks
* B-Track Tat
- 8-Track Tapes
Photos by Jim Hoffman
Like an outdated Monopoly hotel it sits on its square of real estate—a ponderous monster—writing the Hill.
Fraser Hall. Some have called it the uglest campus building in the state of Kansas, a giant shoebox with geometric nip
ples, a huge three-dimensional bingo card.
The building is an architecturally compromise. Constructed in 1966 and occupied until 2004, it rapidly slipping away from its original purpose as a functional classroom building.
The twin copaules, jutting out unexpectedly from the roof of an ornate stone building, a large structure, were included to decorate Old Fraser's twin flag tower.
with deferences to its namesake building.
Sunset—or Glimmering of Knowledge?—Shines in Classroom
will be in the OREAD BOOK SHOP
Today, 4:00-5:00
Joanne Greenberg ("Hannah Green")
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden and other books
author of
to autograph her newest book
In This Sign Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, $5.95
Coffee will be served
The color scheme and stonework were designed to retain something of the appearance of Old Fraser.
The attempts obviously failed.
Faculty members and alumni who were fond of old Fraser were againt at his "monstrous" tone, and poor Fraser Hall has been kicked around since.
As if the outside of the building weren't bad enough, say the critics, the inside is even worse. The hallways give an air of sterility to the rooms and doorways, the windows and the staircases are all monotonously silent and about as exciting as a ceramic stall or a hospital ward
But Fraser strikes back. In the late afternoon, with no students浸在 the lungs or filling the chest in the quiet beauty of its own. Seen through the appreciative eye of the Hall asserts it esthetic value.
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