After enrolling at UMass Amherst, Isabel Levin progressed from barely having heard of sociology to becoming what Assistant Professor of Sociology Kathryne Young calls “the most promising undergraduate researcher I have ever met.” As Young’s research assistant, Isabel laid the groundwork for her later independent work. She learned qualitative data collection, conducting highly
mass amherst for decades but apparently the weight of the books accuse was a legend and never substantiated. maybe not true. not why that problem was happening. to prove i m an old person, these days that ugly chain link fence is gone but it s because it s been replaced by a prettier fence because they still have the same trouble. there is a place where the factoring in the weight of the building s content legend turns out to be a real thing. there s a new inspector general report out about this federal government regional office in north carolina. and in this new report, the inspectors describe what the building s contents were doing to the building s structure. the building s contents created an unsafe work space for employees and appeared to have the potential to compromise the integrity of the building. the contents exceed the capacity of the floor by prol 39 pounds per square feet. the excess weight can compromise the whole sixth floor of the
but when you got there, you had to enter through this tiny colored alley like cut through because of the building s unfortunate habit of dropping bricks off its facade. so the fence kept you far enough away from the building that they would not hit you on the head and the one little alley was covered up by a roof that would protect you if the bricks did fall. local legend had it the architects who designed the library in the late 60s made a lot of neat plans but did not plan for the weight of the books. and so the bricks popped off. you might have heard a similar architecture are rumor about a library near you. i say it s an urban legend because brick chips have been falling off that library at u mass amherst for decades but apparently the weight of the books accuse was a legend and never substantiated. maybe not true. not why that problem was