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Frank Mullin
With a few swings of a wrecking ball, the
Smith Swim Center became no more in February. The nearly thirty-year-old building had been deemed unsafe because of rotting wooden beams inside. For the time being, Brown's swimmers are using a temporary pool built on campus, but in 2010, a new facility will open as part of a new athletic center.