[1988] in Humor
Humor or not? The collapse of building 20!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Skwersky)
Tue Apr 1 14:44:38 1997
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:28:01 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: Adam Skwersky <askwersk@MIT.EDU>
I got this from my roommate who is in the linguistics dept.
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>Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:38:54 -0500
>>To: ling-grad@MIT.EDU, ling-fac@MIT.EDU, ling-vis@MIT.EDU
>>From: David Pesetsky <pesetsk@MIT.EDU>
>>[Boston Globe][AP on the Globe Online]
>>[The Boston Globe]
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>> Related [Image] Famed Building Collapses In Freak
>> info: Spring Blizzard
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>> The latest
>> regional Associated Press, 04/01/97
>> news 01:04
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>> Boston.com BOSTON (AP) - A piece of history
>> News/Media collapsed this morning under the weight
>> page of an unusual spring blizzard. No one was
>> killed and there were only minor injuries
>> mostly limited to graduate students.
>> A famed World War II building at the
>> Interactive Massachusetts Institute of Technology which
>> features: had continued to serve as the home for
>> some of the region's best known scientists,
>> Pass It On: and scholars, MIT's "Building 20" was in ruins
>> Send this this morning, as students and faculty
>> story to a desperately tried to recover treasured personal
>> friend possessions and scholarly papers from the snow-
>> strewn rubble.
>> Related One of MIT's most famous professors, the
>> Stories: linguist and political activist Nome Chomsky,
>> Find other had his office in Building 20. "It was fun,"
>> news on he remarked in an early morning interview. "What
>> this topic can I say?"
>> Professor Irene Heim, a colleague of Chomsky's,
>> was working late when the building collapsed. "I
>> heard a groan, then a crack. The simpleminded
>> observation that it was time to get out was the
>> right one in this case."
>> In recent years, the building had been allowed
>> to deteriorate, and some experts questioned whether
>> this had contributed to the disaster. Philosophy
>> student Norvin Richard suggested that a window
>> left open in the building's notorious "R.T.G. room"
>> might have been the culprit. "It was full of snow,"
>> the heavily bearded student remarked. "The
>> weight of all that snow may have been too much for
>> it."
>> Constructed as a radar lab during the Second
>> World War, Building 20 had housed such famous
>> professors as the linguist and political activist
>> Norm Chomsky.
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