January 23, 2009
A Lifetime of Academic Offices
A professor on the last lap of his faculty career recalls 40 years of cubicles
Recently I walked through a heavy rainstorm in Berkeley to get to my office in Tolman Hall on the University of California campus. When I arrived, my shoes were so soaked I had to remove them; I put them in a wastebasket to drip dry. I sat in my office chair and enjoyed the tactile warmth and good feeling of being in a secure, familiar place.
I am on the last lap of my academic career, and this is
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