Law building diagnosed as unbalanced
The Law School building was diagnosed
as "unbalanced” yesterday as a new concept
adopted by the Campus Planning Committee
took its first tenative steps toward ap
plication. Tlie plan consists of piecemeal
growth based on planning concepts called
patterns. Patterns are shared principles of
aspects of what the campus should be like.
The patterns are used to evaluate and plan for
future growth.
A diagnosis of the present state of the
University community was presented to the
committee by Harry VanOudenallen, the
acting planner of the Physical Plant.
VanOudenallen explained that it was only a
rough draft to give committee members an
idea of how the diagnosing process would be
formulated.
Areas on the campus were judged against
the patterns in use to evaluate present
buildings and plan future projects. Buildings
were found to be “balanced” or “un
balanced” according to the pattern criteria,
said VanOudenallen.
The new Law School building was found to
be "unbalanced ” but a member of the
committee questioned the finding, stating
that the structure had solved the space
problems of the Law School. Chairer Jerry
Diethelm responded, stating “...We have
explained our requirements for building
functions,” and added that planners are
hopefully more sensitive to a variety of needs
filled by a building.
VanOudenallen noted that the Law School
had been referred to as a “fortress” because
it was not accessible to the whole of the
campus population.
Another committee member defended the
Law School’s design by pointing out that the
users of the building, namely Law faculty and
students, might not be interested in making
the building accessible to others. He won
dered aloud if a building similar to the one
constructed would have been planned even if
the new concept was used.
Diethelm admitted that it was possible, but
noted that while Law building users would
have primary influence on the plans, other
users of the campus would also provide input.
He added that any plan would have to con
form to the adopted patterns of campus
development.
The discussion broadened into con
sideration of how to develop patterns which
would be known to and agreed upon by the
University community. A chief problem
mentioned was providing for input from those
who may be critical of the adopted patterns.
Also discussed at the meeting was the
circulation and traffic diagnosis for the
University. One recommendation was made
that the University oppose proposed ex
pressways through the University area.
These proposed expressways include: sec
tions between the campus and the Willamette
River, campus and central Eugene, 30th
Avenue and Centennial Boulevard and bet
ween the University and Fairmont
Boulevard.
The need for student representation on
some of the subcommittees was also
discussed. Student member John Medows
told the Emerald that a check would be made
with the ASUO to recruit students who would
serve on the subcommittees and suggested
that they would function as advisors to
students already on the committee.
Idaho wilderness area threatened
by Forest Service land use plan
“The largest chunk of
classified wilderness area in the
United States is threatened—we
must take steps to preserve the
Idaho Primitive Area now,” said
Ron Waters to a crowd of 200
people in 150 Science Monday
night.
Waters, who made a dramatic
200-mile cross country ski trek
across the area last winter to
bring attention to its plight, made
the plea in the face of the
National Forest Service’s
proposal that would threaten
various parts of the 1.2 million
acre Idaho Primitive Area.
“While much of the proposal is
sound, it excludes the protection
of many tributaries of the Middle
Fork of the Salmon River that
runs through the area. By not
protecting all the river’s branch
es, the river would be ex
traordinarily vulnerable to
outside pollution that would in
turn be carried into the virgin
area,” Waters explained.
“Other parts of the primitive
area are being left open for
mining, under the Forest Service
proposal, and heavy mining
lobbies are pressuring the Forest
Service to let them exploit the
minerals,” Waters continued.
The proposal has yet to be
adopted and Waters, assistant
director and Environmental
Coordinator for the Idaho State
University Outdoor Program,
maintains that citizen pressure
could be effective in preserving
this unique area.
“The Forest Service has
succumbed to public pressure
before, and they may do it in this
case if enough people write to
demand that the area of the
proposed wilderness be extended
to include the watershed of the
Middle Fork of the Salmon River.
The letters should also ask that
the almost half million acres in
land contiguous to the Salmon
River Breaks Primitive Area be
classified as wilderness,” Waters
said.
Waters said that such letters
should be sent to Vem Hamre,
Regional Forester in the Federal
Building in Ogden, Utah. Copies
of the Forest Service proposal
and the environmental alter
native are on display in the
Outdoor Program, EMU room 23.
When asked to comment on the
Idaho Primitive Area issue, Gary
Grimm, Outdoor Program
Coordinator and college
wilderness recreation authority
at the University, asserted, “The
Forest Service plan excludes a
key fact of any wilderness issue—
the watershed protection. Few
places in America today have
water as pure and clean as the
Middle Fork. Any intrusions in
the Middle Fork watershed en
danger its future purity.
“The Forest Service plan
concerns itself more with
preserving small roads than with
preserving the wilderness. Hie
only people who could possibly
support this are people with
economic concerns in this area,”
Grimm said.
ALERT discusses German
tapes for disabled students
A “Guten Tag” German class for disabled students was one of the
topics discussed at the November meeting of ALERT, an organization
of all persons, disabled or not, interested in the problems faced by the
handicapped.
The meeting, with Don Johnson presiding, was held Monday night
in the EMU. The organization meets the first Monday of each month.
ALERT members endorsed the efforts of Christian Stehr, a first
year Guten Tag instructor, to duplicate tapes used in the language
program for those students without access to the language
laboratories. The present plan calls for financing through student
contributions.
Other items on the agenda included the possibility of a west coast
coalition for persons of limited mobility, formed with other interested
colleges in California, Idaho, and Washington, and a wheelchair repair
service using ALERT funds.
The Lane Transit District is “listening more” to handicapped
persons, but buses continue to be inaccessible to the disabled, a
member reported. The existing mass transit system could be made
accessible by installing wheelchair lifts on the buses, it was suggested.
ALERT members examined and adopted a mascot drawn by
member Peter Markus. The mascot, a duck in a wheelchair holding a
can of pencils, will be used to decorate ALERT sweatshirts and let
terheads.
Dellenback urges propane quota change
WASHINGTON —
Congressman John Delienback,
(R-Dist. 4) joined by Senators
Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) and Bob
Packwood (R-Ore.) and
Representatives Edith Green (D
Dist. 3), A1 Ullman (D-Dist. 2),
and Wendell Wyatt (R-Dist. 1),
has written the President’s
assistant for energy policy,
former Gov. John Love, to urge
“in the strongest possible terms”
revision of the mandatory
propane allocation system or
dered by the Energy Policy
Office earlier this month.
As ordered by the Office, the
mandatory propane allocation
system does not include lumber
and plywood production as a
priority use for propane gas.
The letter points out: “Most
plywood producers who utilize
propane have already been
contacted by their suppliers with
Lhe information that, unless there
are significant new resources of
propane made available, there
will be no propane available for
non-priority users. If this is the
case, most plywood producing
firms will either have to shut
down completely or at least
drastically curtail their
operations. An area like ours
which suffers from perennial
high unemployment would be
extremely badly hurt by such a
blow.”
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