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(06-12-2020 05:53 PM)colohank Wrote:  Cathedral-Of-Learning envy is a serious matter, made worse by the Pitt cheerleaders' chants to the scattered fans in that sparsely populated stadium they're obliged to use.

Our Cathedral Of Learning,
Your unrequited yearning.
You guys cruise, our guys lose,
Wannstedt, Wannstedt, rah rah rah.

Accordingly, I propose a couple of remedies: (1) get some housemovers to lift McMicken several hundred feet off its foundations. Then install and compact a monstrous fill beneath the building and lower McMicken back onto its new, more prominent elevation, or (2) erect an enormous Ferris Wheel on campus, something which dwarfs the Eye of London, for example. Each gondola a classroom, and a money-making tourist attraction on weekends.

C'mon, all you mechanical and civil engineers, git 'er done.

In true Civil Engineer vs. Architecture form...I can give you 147 reasons why I can't build that