Furtively, secretly, a few of us violate this culture through discourse across disciplines, departments and divisions. Secondly, a central entrance and common foyer could encourage faculty and students to break down spatial compartmentalization and to associate intellectually in shared space. Subsets of congenial common space might further promote the development of intellectual cross-fertilization. In my own thinking most of these issues are inextricably tied to large questions of curriculum construction and planning, so it is hard to imagine moving beyond the most conventional matters of wedging present social sciences into new larger space, and managing, with minimum bloodshed, the politics of divvying up the pie. Miller can be seen as a model of incremental change - or as a grievously missed opportunity.
Anthropology is more a humanities program than a social science program.
And Communications, though enjoying high student interest, seems to inhabit a different universe altogether. New ways of seeing. Adequate computer and multimedia facilities, including quality transcription machines and video production facilities, quality networking. Windows, light, technologically advanced, book space. Students not hanging outside office door areas.