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CURIOUS COMETS Vol. 2: Why are there t-shirts in the Green Center atrium?

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These curiosity-inducing shirts hang unapologetically from a web of wire clotheslines. It’s a striking visual, if a bit mystifying: the exhibit fulfills no discernable purpose, nor would the array of fading cotton reasonably be considered beautiful by any but the most charitable observer. A curious Comet might find the small plaque acknowledging that the shirts were donated by former Dean of Undergraduate Education Michael Coleman, but even that does little to explain their continued presence more than a decade after his retirement.

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According to Dean of the Honors College Edward Harpham—who served as Associate Dean under Coleman—the ex-

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