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Buckminster Fuller
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broad vision
apparent
in talks
with students
By WALTER GREENWOOD
Of the Emerald
In separate talks Tuesday before an architecture
class and a group of geography students, Buck
minster Fuller demonstrated the broadness of
vision which has made him famous.
When Fuller appeared before the Structure and
Function class (25 student limit) a crowd of 300 had
filled the room and overflowed into the hallway
beyond. A short, balding, white-haired man, Fuller
looked at the mob through thick glasses, adjusted
his microphone, and asked if the people in back
could hear.
“No,” they shouted.
“Fine,” laughed Fuller, and began his talk.
He talked at length about basic structural shapes
and their relationships—the triangle being the most
primary unit of structure, the tetrahedron and other
polyhedrons each possessing unique structural
characteristics. It is these polyhedrons of which the
geodesic dome—perhaps Fuller’s best-known
invention—is constructed.
As Fuller was telling of the difference between an
engineer and a non-engineer , (an engineer realizes
that every action has a reaction), the end of the hour
approached, and a white-haired lady caught his
attention from the side of the room, pointing at her
watch.
“Time?” Fuller asked, then grinned. “My wife
never minds telling me something.”
Fuller’s enthusiasm for his subject was obvious,
as he continued his talk for another 20 minutes. He
noted the new architecture will make use of in
compressible liquid in structures, with strong, high
precision metal fittings which can be built using
high-technology processes. And by building bigger,
more efficient structures, man will be able to con
serve energy, he said.
After receiving a standing ovation from the ar
chitecture students, Fuller walked to Condon Hall to
speak to students, at the invitation of the Geology
Department. About 40 persons attended.
It is perhaps not well known, but during World
War II, Fuller found a way to transfer information
from a globe to a flat map with no visible distortion.
Only about a fourth of a globe can be seen at one
time, Fuller said, and, therefore, one cannot get a
real idea of how oceans and continents relate. He
noted most world map6, like those in which
Greenland looks huge, are badly distorted.
Fuller’s map has neither problem, though he said
it wasn’t an easy solution to develop. Fuller said it
took him two years to find a way to arrange the
continents and oceans to avoid placing the
sunuses—splits between triangular map seg
ments—within continents.
The result was a map unique enough to be
patented, despite the U.S. Patent Office’s statement
that it would grant no more cartographic patents,
he said.
An accurate flat map helps people to deal with the
great changes that technological advance has
worked and will work in the world, Fuller indicated.
As an example of such technological change, Fuller
noted man will soon be able to conduct power over
distances of 1500 miles through superconductive
lines. Fuller said he conceives a time when electric
power will be transmitted not only across time
zones within countries, but across the North Pole.
Man will then be able to integrate day and night
and make full, efficient use of resources, he said.
Cabinet discusses tenure, promotion
Students need an effective way
to voice their opinions concerning
matters of faculty promotion and
tenure, according to ASUO
Cabinet members.
ASUO President Bill Wyatt
introduced this problem in a
cabinet meeting held at 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday in 337 EMU. The pur
pose of the meeting was to in
troduce new cabinet members
and to develop goals, guidelines
and schedules for the cabinet to
follow in the next few months.
Wyatt stated his intention to
propose in the next faculty
meeting that there be some sort
of student representation in
developing or revising promotion
and tenure policies.
Last week a motion to include
two students in the recently
created Ad Hoc Committee on
Promotion and Tenure was
defeated by a 9-16 vote in a
Faculty Senate meeting.
Cliff Zukin, ASUO Senate
president, was skeptical about
the faculty response a repetition
of the proposal might receive. If
the motion fails, Wyatt stated he
would like to see the cabinet form
a group of students to investigate
these matters independently of
the faculty committee.
“In choosing goals, you have to
pick something finite,” Wyatt
stated. One suggested goal was
to initiate a university-wide study
of teacher and course evaluations
in the various departments, in
order to determine the relevancy
of evaluation forms.
The cabinet also discussed
women’s athletics, stressing the
inadequate funding of that
program.