Efron/Tibs's top 15 reasons why they shouldn't tear down Sequoia Hall


16. Judi will have to go home.

15. Where will the skunks hide out?

14.  Danger of ph.d theses accidentally being opened.

13.  By moving 100 yards closer to Charles Stein's house. he will
prove one less theorem per year on his daily walk to work. 

12. The Palo Alto fire dept wants to film a safety video in Lai's office
  (Tibshirani is not one to talk) 

11. Why don't they pick on a building that hasn't been torn
down before?

10. People in basement will be exposed to the sun.

9.  Will disturb sacred resting place of Willow.

8. Environmental clean-up danger near Freedman, Johns offices.

7. Natural habitat of the spotted mouse.

6. Impossible to reproduce men's room in new building.

4. Playfair is too weak to survive a move

3. 300 people will die  (oops, that's why they
  shouldn't tear down Sequioa Hospital)

2. It'd be cheaper to wait for the next quake

1.  The spirits of dead physicists will haunt us, eerily wailing
about lost parking spaces