Evans cites ‘tidy’ England, U.S. sprawl
By GORDON MacCRACKEN
Of the Emerald
.
“I Knew John Lennon’s Bin
Man” was the title of a lecture
given Friday afternoon by Ianto
Evans, a visiting assistant
professor of landscape ar
chitecture at the University.
The title could be construed as
false advertising, but the near
capacity audience in 177
Lawrence Hall seemed to feel it
was worth it.
Evans’ lecture contained only
fleeting references to the former
Beatle named in the talk’s title. A
tape recorder near the front of
the auditorium played
“Strawberry Fields Forever,”
“Penny Lane” and “Yellow
Submarine” before the lecture
began. Shortly after Evans
started his talk, he explained his
relationship to Lennon—Evans
was born in Liverpool in mid
1940, a few months before Lennon
was born four blocks down the
street from Evans’ home. A few
weeks later, the period of Evans
and Lennon being “neighbors”
ended when Evans moved with
his family to Wales.
In the more than 32 years that
followed, while Lennon became a
world famous performer,
composer, author and champion
of social change, Evans was
schooled in England, Scotland
and Wales and became a land
scape architect and teacher with
a home on the island of Anglesey
just off the coast of Wales.
The true topic of Evans’
presentation was the relation
ship, differences and likenesses
between different countries,
basically Britain and the United
States. “I guess what I’m really
into here is something like time
travel,” said the balding,
bearded Briton in explaining how
it feels to move from “back
ward” nations such as Britain,
Germany and Spain to the
“forward-looking” United States.
The landscape architect feels
that looking at the United States
today may well be a foreboding of
things to come in the so-called
“backward” nations, and,
conversely, the other countries
show now how the United States
used to be. “I guess it will take us
a generation to find out your
mistakes,” he commented.
Interspersing his talk with a
slide show of various scenes of
contrast in the United States and
Britain, Evans noted that his
country is not really much like
the posters his government puts
out to attract tourists. In other
words, England isn’t all palace
guards, Bobbies, castles and
rolling green fields.
Overpopulation, according to
Evans, is a key factor in the
landscape and culture of Britain.
He asked his audience to imagine
a nation the size of Oregon
containing the population of all
the western United States plus
Canada. England, he said, with a
population of 60 million, fits that
description. He pointed out that
Oregon now has a population of
approximately two million, a
stage the British reached near
the end of the 12th century.
Evans showed pictures of
Liverpool and other English
industrial cities, places with what
he termed “an incredible level df
pollution.” He mentioned that the
British have a very high
population density and said, “As
things get tighter, it puts more
control on the way people live
their lives.”
Evans referred to a book by
W.G. Hoskins entitled The
Making of the English Land
scape. The book, said Evans,
made the point that British cities
got tighter because people
couldn’t afford to take away
further field space. As the cities
got tighter, he said, the British
people asserted their in
dividuality in small ways such as
painting their front doors dif
ferent colors.
The sprawl that has taken
place in the United States may be
attributed in part, said Evans, to
the lack of population density. In
England, he said, there just isn’t
room for it. He punted out dif
ferences such as the sleekness of
Schaub hopes to give students
‘the most9 for their fee money
By SCOTTA C ALLISTER
Of the Emerald
Making sure that students “get
the most benefit out of their in
cidental fees” is a major concern
of Bill Schaub, the newly
appointed ASUO Chief Ad
ministrative Assistant.
In an interview Monday af
ternoon, Schaub said his main
duty is to administer and con
stantly review the various
student programs in order to
preserve the quality for which the
students are paying.
“The question the ad
ministrative assistants must ask
is, ‘Are the programs evolving or
stagnating?’ ” Schaub stated.
Schaub, along with other
members of the executive, will be
working in an advisory capacity
with program directors on their
budgets. Schaub expressed great
interest in the budgetary
processes, stating that in
situations where persons are
being paid by the ASUO, “it is
necessary to see exactly where
the monev is vninv ”
. Schaub refused to give his
personal opinion about the
controversial Winkleman
Amendment, a bill that proposed
to give students individual
control over the disposition of
their $18 incidental fee.
However, be said he will be
attending staff meetings in the
future to go over some alter
natives to the amendment.
Schaub wants to make sure
that the programs are serving the
students’ interests to prevent the
ASUO from becoming “some
kind of aloof agency.”
He said he feels there is a need
for better communications within
the ASUO. It is natural for
student body officers to have
differing opinions and
philosophies, Schaub said, but
they must be able to talk out their
differences when making
policies
Schaub has been president of
Inter-Fraternity Owwil and a
Oregon Daily Emerald
nember of the ASUO Cabinet. He
said he feels that his past ex
posure to ASUO politics enhances
his understanding of his job
without reducing his sense of
objectivity.
He said he has no political
“ties” or ulterior motives in
taking the job, since he is
graduating in the spring.
Schaub was hesitant to discuss
the movement to abolish the
ASUO Senate, but he mentioned
that it shows a lack of foresight.
“I’m not sure if abolishment at
this time won’t cause real
complications,” he said,
suggesting that reform and
reorganization might be more
valid ways of changing the
senate.
Schaub said there are many
“responsible, hard-working”
people in the senate but he added
that “dissension tears down the
quality of the body.”
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have a feeling it’s a product
directly of overpopulation,” the
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combination of a small landscape
and a large papulation may be a
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