UW campus building boom is wasteful, unnecessary

I attended the UW-Madison from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s â?? an era when protests, teach-ins, be-ins and the occasional full-scale riot were part of the campus experience.The noise emanating from the students was matched by that from the biggest construction initiative the campus had ever seen, as the baby boomers entered college. During this period the university built some of its largest, most imposing structures, including Van Hise Hall, the Humanities Building, Vilas Hall, Van Vleck Hall and Helen C. White Hall.