Editing Infinite Corridor (section)

===Lobby 7===
[[File:MIT Lobby 7.jpg|thumb|upright|MIT Lobby 7, viewed looking up at the interior of the Little Dome]]
Lobby 7, so named because of its location in Building 7 (formally named the '''Rogers Building'''), is a large {{convert|100|ft|m|sp=us|adj=on}} vertical space open all the way up to the interior of the '''Little Dome'''.  A carved inscription<ref>ESTABLISHED FOR ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE ITS APPLICATION TO INDVSTRY THE ARTS AGRICVLTURE AND COMMERCE CHARTER MDCCCLXI [carved in [[Roman square capitals]] without punctuation]</ref> circles the space just below the base of the Little Dome. Four empty pedestals occupy the corners of the square lobby; they were originally intended for large [[Sculpture#North America|Neoclassical figural sculptures]], but are instead often occupied by students studying, or occasionally playing live music. The Infinite Corridor begins straight ahead through the lobby, on the opposite side from the street.

During the 1970s, two large pillars flanking the entrance to the Infinite Corridor were partially wrapped in paper and used by the liberal "Alternative Advertising" and somewhat less liberal "Pillar Productions" where students would scrawl responses to issues of the day such as nuclear power or whether [[Disco Sucks|disco sucked]]. A display of [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] art was once withdrawn after vandalism in the lobby.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}

Lobby 7 is frequently used for formally scheduled or impromptu concerts, as well as dance performances. Occasionally, "[[performance art]]" hacks or [[installation art]] hacks are sited in Lobby 7. Banners advertising campus events are often hung from the upper levels of Lobby 7, including the occasional hack banner such as "Don't let the Grinch steal your Christmas" (in reference to complaints about the campus [[Christmas tree]]).  The cavernous interior space of Lobby 7 is frequently the site of hacks that require a large volume of unobstructed indoor space.<ref name=HackLobby7>{{cite web|title=Hacks In Lobby 7 and the Infinite Corridor|url=http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_location/inf_corridor.html|work=MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery|access-date=2011-05-02}}</ref>