(Courtesy Free Cooper Union)
Cooper Union wants it to be known that you can’t just unleash 2,100 ping-pong balls on a four-story staircase and get away with it. In a campus-wide e-mail forwarded to B+B, Alan Wolf, the school’s safety coordinator, says he wants the ping-pong protesters to be held accountable. Here’s the full statement, in case you were about to bulk order some Slinkies.
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The grand staircase at the Thom Mayne-designed Cooper Union academic building at 41 Cooper Square connects four floors of the nine story building in a single, unbroken sweep.
Now imagine it blanketed with ping pong balls. No need to imagine, because it happened yesterday.
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There’ll be no more pizza airlifts at Cooper Union.
Students camped out in President Jamshed Bharucha’s office for 65 days have reached an agreement with the Board of Trustees that ends their occupation. Student organizers announced the accord, reached Friday, on various social media platforms and with a press release earlier today.
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