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emerald Vol. 82, No. 120 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Friday, March 13, 1981 As hectic review week ends Budding architects’ work blooms By JODY MURRAY Of the Emerald While most students slogged through dead week, bleary-eyed souls in the architecture school placed their term's work — literally — up against the wall. Today ends “review week,” the week when final models and layouts of each architecture student’s work are displayed for all to see. Instructors assigned to each review meander from student to student, giving suggestions, arguments and ulcers. Students also get responses from their peers and members of the community, including professional architects and representatives of the building or lands cape they are redesigning. The comments aren't necessarily part of the student’s grade, but the instructor can take them into account. But what goes on at this “ceremonial thing,” as one instructor puts it, is only the final broth of a boiling turmoil of preliminary drawings and models. In the plywood and two-by-four labyrinths of Law rence Hall’s third and fourth floors, students have worked incessantly on their projects, grabbing scant hours of sleep on lumpy couches and chairs. "At this point in time you tend to be a little bit numb,” Pepper Solberg said at his Wednesday night review. Solberg’s class had redesigned — and in many cases, relocated — the University’s Robinson Theater. “The term is basically over after review. Everything else is secondary,” Solberg explained. “It’s the adren alin for the whole term, the prime recognition for your effort." About 60 people milled about the Robinson Theater review — aptly named "Act One.” Reviewing instructors assigned to certain students would take a chair, pull out writing tablets and scribble while scan ning the drawings. “I wanted to create some kind of hub of activity here,” Solberg told architecture Prof. John Reynolds as he ran a finger along his clay model. “So what you were doing was making a conscious effort to restrict that as much as much as possible?” Reynolds asks. “I guess what I’m getting at is, why is that happening here?” Architecture student Pepper Solberg points out a feature of one of his Photo by Erich Boekelheide drawings to Professor John Reynolds. Solberg’s studio instructor Mike Shellenbarger stands grinning in the center of the room. "There’s a lot of personal satisfaction seeing the fruits of the students’ energy blooming on the walls," Shellenbarger says. But despite review week's merits, Shellenbarger says the maniacal intensity preceeding and during the week is unnecessary. "It’s tradition. It comes mainly from peer pressure and inertia. Lots of drugs, lots of people working all night." And all day, it seems. Some students still were slaving away Wednesday night in the maze-like studios. “I started about 2Vs> weeks ago, and I’m still behind,” Paul Thimm said as he assembled a model of an 11 -story office building. Architecture students camp out in Lawrence dur ing the review week, stepping outside just long enough to catch some fresh air and clear their heads. Inside, students break the drafting board routine with music, beer and other stimulants. "You have to work and play at the same time because you don't have time to really play,” Thimm said. A sign tacked to one student’s work area summed up the paradox of levity and insanity. “Please! Please! Don’t critique me — give me 40 lashes instead!” Photo by Richard Wagoner Striking stature Mia Hansen, a 21-year-old University student, strikes an artistic pose Thursday night during a body builders’ performance on campus. The dance and recreation major was one of five body builders — and the only woman — who posed in 150 Geology following the showing of Arnold Schwarzenegger's film "Pumping Iron." Residents seek aid for foreign students Students who want continued support for foreign students in Oregon’s colleges and universi ties have banded together in an effort to convince legislators, administrators and fellow students of the advantages of having foreign students in Oregon. The group is sponsoring a table in the EMU lobby all day today. “It’s time to re-evaluate our priorities,” says Sarah Barton, a junior in fine arts, who is part of an informal group of University students and citizens commit ted to working for support of foreign students. During this “economic cri sis,” Gov. Vic Atiyeh and the State Board of Higher Educa tion are proposing elimination or reduction of fee remissions — or tuition subsidies — for foreign students, Barton says Such a move, she says, would injure the quality of education and the cultural enrichment at Oregon’s colleges and universi ties. Not only would such a move “make it harder to attract bright and gifted students,’’ it also would be a political mistake, she says. “That whole act would be an unfriendly gesture when we need world-wide unity for world-wide problems. Educa tion is one way to achieve that unity.” Foreign students bring mil lions of dollars into local com munities and foster favorable international relations, Barton says. Foreign students take back to their countries valuable business, trade and commerce connections made with Oregonians. And while foreign students pay no more tuition or bring no more money into local econ omies than American non Oregon residents, they bring something to education in Oregon that can’t be measured, she says.
