In his report on the year 1955-6, Yale President A. Whitney Griswold announced his intention to add at least one more residential college to the system Yale had launched only two decades earlier. "We have the colleges so full that community life, discipline, education, even sanitation are suffering," he stated. Eero Saarinen was chosen as the architect, and the Old York Square behind the Graduate School became the designated site. Morse College is an eclectic structure built on an odd, angular site. The college consists almost entirely of single rooms, and in a modern attempt to capture the spirit of Gothic architecture, Saarinen eliminated all right angles from the living areas. In a 1959 article in the Yale Daily News, Eero Saarinen discussed his design for Morse. "Our primary effort was to create an architecture which would recognize the individual as individual instead of an anonymous integer in a group." Saarinen's efforts certainly achieved their desired ends. Morse's profoundly different architecture has ensured that neither the college nor its students are anonymous integers in a greater whole, but that both are distinctly different from the whole and recognizable as individuals in their own right. One of Morse's defining features in the "Lipstick," a pop-art sculpture created by Claes Oldenburg and brought to the college by Master Vincent Scully in the 1970's. A new stereo, big screen TV, ping-pong table, air hockey table, pool table, and foosball make the Common Room an actively used space. Morse College Council meetings, held each Tuesday at 10:00 p.m., attract crowds with free pizza. Several enterprising Morsels run the college buttery, "The Morsel," open for late night snacks and entertainment thrice a week. On Thursdays, "The Morsel" is open for an informal party. Morse College became the eleventh residential college to undergo renovation beginning in May 2009. The top-to-bottom refurbishment is now complete, updating the facilities of the college to meet growing student needs while preserving the design and style Morse is known for. The centerpiece of the renovation project is a new crescent courtyard addition, completely underground, that provides a variety of activity rooms, including a fifty-seat theater, music practice rooms, an art studio, a sound studio, a digital media room, exercise facilities, and spaces for dance and aerobics to accommodate the goal of Yale's College system as a center for social interaction.