School Architecture Uniformity Varies
(Editor’s Note: Oat of the heavy
pre-Homecoming rain came Eme
rald’s Columnist Bob Funk to write
this version of architecture—Ore
gon style. It belongs oh editorial
pages, but we offer it here as a
feature—Funk style.)
By Bob Funk
On some campuses in the Paci
fic Nortwest there has been a
brave attempt by architects to pre
serve a uniformity in campus archi
tecture. Not so at Oregon.
It is perhaps a pleasant thing
that campus architecture is not
uniform. It makes life more inter
esting. Anyone seeing a similar
ity in the architecture of Deady,
Friendly, and the Erb Memorial
Student Union has a vivid and
dangerous imagination.
There are a number of schools
and pseudo-schools of architecture
represented on the campus. For the
layman, however, there are three
general groupings. There are the
touildings-that-would-please-grand
GERLINGER HALL—middle period
mentioned as an excellent place
to hide out during an atom war.
To date the diversity of archi
tecture on campus does not seem
to have upset very many people.
Several solutions have been pro
posed by people who were upset,
however.
Solutions Proposed
One solution would be to tear
everything down and begin all
over again. This would seriously
interrupt schedules, however, and
would be a great burden on the
tax-payers.
Another solution is to plant
quantities of ivy and rambling
roses and other crawling-creeping
members of the vegetable kingdom
in strategic spots. Eventually the
campus would hava that hallowed,
all-is-ivy look.
It is best, perhaps, not to worry
about such things. One can always
console oneself with the fact that
different architecture provides ex
cellent identification of classroom
buildings early in the morning.
STUDENT UNION—modern style
Sales Staff to Meet
Carol Udy, manager . for late
sales of the Oregana, has called
a meeting of all Oregana house
representatives at 12 noon Thurs
da^Tn the Oregana office.
Theater Ushers Wanted
Persons who wish to usher at
the University Theater Friday or
Saturday nights may contact Vir
ginia Hall, theater business man
ager. Ushers may stay and see
the performance at no cost Miss
Hall explained.
mother. This classification includes
Villard (if you close one eye so
you don’t see the theater), Deady,
and McClure on cloudy days.
The Middle Class
The next group is hy far the
largest on campus. It is comprised
of the buildings-that-were-built
since- someone- who- is- still- alive
can-remember. This would start
with Friendly Hall, and continue
through such magnificent piles as
Fenton, Johnson, Journalism, Chap
man, Condon, Oregon, Commerce,
and the dormitories. This group
does not really have too much in
common, as is often the case in
middle groups.
Third group is the new build
ings, such as Carson, the theater,
and the Student Union. New build
ings, surprisingly enough, sort of
harmonize. Maybe modern archi
tecture is more adaptable.
There is a possible fourth group,
which would come under the
heading of miscellany. Miscellany
includes the School of architecture
and Allied Arts, and that much
discussed but little-visited center
of campus culture, the Oriental
Art- Museum.
Growing Pains?
The triple-A school is a fascin
ating monster whose latest vic
tim is the old physical plant. There
is some feeling here on campus
that the school will grow and
grow until the entire old campus
as we now know it is enveloped.
On the other hand, the museum
does not seem to be nearly so pro
gressive. If it is possible for a
building to be an introVert, it is
the museum. Lately it has been
DEADY HALL—for grandmother
Rats Play Leading Role in Experiment
Bats will play the part of Capi
talist and Laborer in a psychologi
cal experiment to be conducted by
Bay Bhine, graduate assistant, and
Len Lanski, graduate student.
Several rats are being trained
individually now to press down a
lever on the wall of their cage
and release a food pellet from a
slot below the lever. After they
are trained, the rats will be pair
ed indiscriminately and each pair
pat In a cage.
The new cage has a food slot on
one side and a lever on the other
side. To get food, ,the rats will
have to push down the lever and
race across the cage to get to the
foodpellct.
The experiment is to determine
whether the fast-learning rat or
the slow-learning rat will push the
lever while the other one waits to
grab the food. Thus the joking:
nicknames of Capitalist and Lab
orer.
YWCA Mulls
Frosh Activities
Plans for 'YWCA freshmen com
mission activities were discussed
by newly elected officers of com
missions, senior members of the
YW cabinet, and junior advisors
at a meeting Sunday.
Discussion included the term
program in all commissions, and
the relationship of commission
activities to the general cabinet
program.
The meeting was held at the
home of Mrs. J. J. McHugh, pre
sident of the YWCA advisory
board. Mrs. Ilsen Nelson, Fresh
men commissions adviser, also at
tended the confab.
Grant Facts Available
Information on the applications
for the Mexican study grants de
scribed in Tuesday’s Emerald may
be obtained from James D. Kline,
fonlpign student adviser, at his of
fice in Emerald Hall.
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