Students' Union Building Reappraised

For nearly two months now, students have been settling into their new building. If we had any aesthetic sense at all, we should have blown the place up and started again. The building is a sham, a fake, a veneer, lacking in good design and good taste. Yet we, who, of all people, are expected to be outspoken, even at the expense of tact, are content to accept this bad architecture without protesting.

Our values are all wrong. We think of what is practical or functional in terms of cost, not design or usage. Our sense of the beautiful is thrown out the back door, and we construct a new aesthetic on mercenary lines.