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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1959)
Role of landscape artist and design problems cited By .IKAN McBKIOK Kmc raid Ijttaff Writer "A landscape In great when it combines utility with beauty," Garrett Eckbo, a landscape artist froiri Southern California, said In his lecture Tuesday evening In Commonwealth Hall. Eckbo aaid the landscape art ist's job is to Improve relations between people and their environ ment. The architect must co-ordi nate knowledge of land, climate,1 soil, vegetation, utility of area and cultural atmosphere to create a harmonious design with thu building. The primary elements of land scape art, Eckbo said, are rock, land, water and vegetation. Trees ' provide interesting structural pat terns and are primary In organiz ing space in landscape and in providing a transition between buildings and the garden. To improve view "It takes quite an argument to showf you improve the view of a picture window by taking part of it away," Kekbo said when ex plaining that a picture window needs trees to frame the view and provide a transition to the dis tance. The last part of Eckbo’s lec ture was a series of slides on landscape art. The idea that landscape should have utility and beauty is now being extended Into the field of playground equip ment for schools, Eckbo said. He showed a scries of slides of pre Letter to Editor... (Continued from f'ot/e 2) on which to ba»e the rules of this Institution. However, the question at hand seems to be just what is the function of a university ? A university is not to be a moral institution. Of course it is concerned with the moral at titude and Hocial respectability cf its students, but It is not re sponsible for what Joe College and Betty Coed do between the hours of seven and ten thirty. This is the responuibility of their parents. A university is not a finishing school. It is not re sponsible for forbidding Miss Collegiute to wear slacks or ber mudu shorts on the campus without a long coat. It is the parents' responsibility to in struct their daughters as to what to wear and when to wear it. It is a university's responsi bility to provide adequate class • rooms and professors and suf ficient places to study. It is a university’s function to be an institution of higher learning, an institution that allows a young person to develop into a self-sufficient, educated adult. To provide for this development, the University of Oregon en forces a regimented set of rules to insure the welfare of its stu dents. and in so doing only serves to keep the students in the child-like state, with which they enter college. As a result of this repression, the desire to learn simply for the joy of learning is stifled under the weight of out-inoded, unneces sary regulations, and the true meaning of college ceases to exist. Nancy Whitaker Freshman English Major Dear Liz, Ilo.v come yOu married that loser Eddie? He’s a lemon, Liz, a real “hood.” A good looking dolly like you should do hotter than that. You should have tried for Daniel Quincy (D.Q. Dan). He owns 814 Dairy Queen stores! These Include language requlre fabricated structures of varying shape* for children to climb on. "Noting from the polished sur faces," he said, “the children en joy them." Another idea of a series of sand boxes didn’t work out as well, he said, because the chil dren all wanted to be in the same j box. Similar to climbing bars are i the new prefabricated "Cyprus j Trees" for climbing, Kckbo said. They also provide a transition from the school building to the flat play areas. Approach Is problem One problem of landscape de sign Involves the approach and entrance to buildings. Kckbo said. When showing a slide of an en trance to a doctor's office, Kckbo said the Bhrubs and trees made the visitor want to enter. "The benches In front were provided," he said, “for the more hesitant." Kckbo discussed the potential of concrete as a sculpture media and of rock shapes in landscape 'Ugly' lecture... (Continued from page 1) quarters for housing similar to that used In the area and a knowl edge of the political views of Marx. Lenin and Mao Tse Tung. Hints said that the authors use McWhite’s letter to express their own viewpoints. He found the book to be readable but greatly oversimplified, biased and incom plete. He noted these ommissions In the book: • There is no mention of the many college professors who are serving abroad. • Nothing is said about con tract groups such as the U.8. businessmen in foreign countries or the work of the church in these areas. At the close of his lecture, Hints read the final paragraphs from the epilogue of “The Ugly American.” It read In part: “What we need is a small force of dedicated foreign diplomats who are willing to risk a loss of comfort and, In some cases, their health... If the enthusiasm of the people can be aroused, we can succeed." design. “The wonder of nature,” Eckbo said, "is that they are all similar but never identical.” Basically landscape art is a free design problem and there fore alalogous to sculpture and painting. When an area is land scaped with utility, beauty and visual and physical circulation in mind, the final outcome provides a continuous and pleasurable ex perience for every person, Eckbo mid. This Is what will make our cities good to live in. Symphony... (Continued from page 1) cial comment on the February presentation of Homer Keller’s ’Third Symphony,” the orchestra has received an Award of Merit in the 1959 Parade of American Music under the sponsorship of the National Federation of Music Clubs. James Albert, graduate assist ant in the School of Music, will play the trumpet solos in “Proc lamation.” Albert, who graduated frotr. the University last year, has played with the orchestra for the past five years. Second on the program tonight will be "Gymnopedies" by Erik Satie. "Gymnopedies” were origi nally written in 1885 as a set of three piano pieces. Satie’s style of extreme simplicity greatly in fluenced Claude Debussy and he orchestrated two of the Gymnope dies. It is in this form that the University-Eugene Orchestra will present them. Rac Fetherstonhaugh and John Str\ibe will be featured in the third selection, Mendelssohn's “Incidental Music” from “Mid summer Night's Dream.” Fether stonhaugh will play the solo French horn parts of "Nocturne,” and Strube will be the flute solo ist of "Scherzo.” The first of the three Mendelssohn pieces will be “Intermezzo.” Ludwig van Beethoven’s dra matic and exciting Symphony No. 3, "Eroiea,” will conclude the concert. Students will be admitted to the concert with student body card. Short story contest open for students The Ernest Haycox Short Story contest will offer prizes of $100 and $00 to the authors of the best short stories turned into the Eng lish department office by May 28. Open to all students, graduate and undergraduates, the contest is an annual event. Interested students should submit one copy but should include their name in I a separate envelope. 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