Architecture students
redesign biology facilities
By MARIAN GREEN
Of the Emerald
While many departments and schools suffer
overcrowding because of a budget-related con
struction halt, the biology and architecture
departments are pooling their resources to find a
solution.
An architecture design class is studying the
feasibility of reorganizing and centralizing the
research, administrative and teaching functions
in the biology department.
At present, these functions are scattered
throughout the Science II and III buildings. The
lack of centralization causes inefficiency, says
biology planning commission chairer Russell
Fernald.
“Because of no hope of new construction,
renovation seemed to be a reasonable way of
arranging space so everyone wins,” Fernald says.
The renovation began when the planning
commission submitted a plan to architecture and
allied arts school dean Robert Harris. Harris then
assigned the biology department’s problem to
architecture Prof. Cherry Hemaker’s design class.
Fernald attributes the space problem in the
biology department to a lack of centralization.
Because the department's teaching labs are
located in both Science II and III, Fernald says
“there is a lot of duplication of materials.”
The people who prepare labs must set up
equipment such as petri dishes and microscopes
for as many as nine class sections of 24-30 people
in labs scattered throughout the two buildings, he
says.
Another major problem is the Science II
Annex — the building connecting Science I and III
by a bridge-type corridor of tiny office spaces
where many biology faculty members conduct
research, Fernald says.
“It’s not a very good place for faculty to do
work,” he says.
The faculty can't perform research that
requires fine movement because of the building’s
“bounce,” he explains.
Fernald says the biology department is im
pressed with the renovation work being done by
the design class.
"We’ve found out what a fantastic profes
sional school it is,” he says.
Working on the biology department’s prob
lem has given the class experience that approx
imates working in the real world, Hemaker says.
"Very seldom do students get to work on
something that’s ever going to get done,”
Hemaker says. “It’s really been neat to work with
people from another department. We speak dif
ferent languages, but we're all after the same
thing."
Fernald echoes her sentiments.
"It's nice for the architecture students
because they’re working with professional con
straints, and we (the biology department and the
design class) both find out about a whole different
discipline,” he says.
Because the problem’s scope is so large, the
class’ 14 students, who range in design exper
ience from one to four years, are divided into four
study groups. The groups have met three times a
week for four hours this term, Hemaker says.
This design-team approach is foreign to the
students, she says.
“In school, design students work on their
own, but in the real world architects rarely work
alone,” Hemaker explains. "From that standpoint,
it was very helpful, but it was also very difficult for
them."
The students have learned to communicate
with "users,” the biology department’s staff,
because the problem required "extensive" re
search and ‘‘intense’’ interviewing, Hemaker
s’ays.
"That’s invaluable. You do that all the time in
practice,” Hemaker says.
Design students Ann Boettcher and Karen
Bates agree with Hemaker.
"It's nothing like we’ve ever done before,”
Boettcher says.
"It’s great experience for when you get out in
the real world,” Bates agrees.
Author discusses Korean trip
University graduate and journalist Tim Shor
rock will give an eyewitness report on South
Korea at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Room 125 of the law
school.
Shorrock spent five weeks in South Korea
during February and March researching the
country's economy. He also recently visited
Japan to give a workshop at an international
conference on Korea.
Shorrock’s research focused on U.S. and
Japanese involvement in Korean development
plans and investigation of South Korea's nuclear
power program and opposition movement. He
visited Seoul, Kwangju — the site of rioting last
year’s — and the industrial city of Pusan.
While in South Korea, Shorrock interviwed
both U.S. and South Korean embassy officials
and businessman, as well as missionaries,
students and opposition leaders.
Shorrock grew up in South Korea and Japan
as the son of missionary parents working for
Church World service. He is a former resident of
Eugene with a graduate degree in Asian studies
from the University.
He is the author of a study, "The Political
Economy of the Pacific Rim," now being trans
lated into Japanese, and of numerous articles on
South Korea.
Shorrock currently works with Nautilus Inter
national, a California-based research project. He
also serves on the national steering committee of
CALC.
The presentation is sponsored by Clergy and
Laity Concerned, the Asian-American Alliance,
the University Asian Studies Department and the
National Lawyers Guild.
Ram Dass leads workshop
Ram Dass, former Harvard research psy
chologist turned spirtual teacher, will be in
Eugene Sunday to conduct a seminar on dying.
Dass will be joined by Tibetan lama Gyaltrul
Rinpoche and medical anthropologist Joan
Halifax for the seminar, “Going Home: A Trans
formative View of Dying and Death.”
During the seminar the three will discuss their
experiences working with the dying. They will
focus on overcoming fear of death, the psy
chological nature of death, visonary experience
at the moment of death, and death as an oppor
tunity for inner understanding. A question and
answer period will follow the discussion.
The seminar begins at 9 a m. in the Agricul
ture Pavilion of the Lane County Fairgrounds.
Tickets are $15 and are available at the Paper
Trader Annex, Perelandra Books and the Kiva
Bookstore.
For more information call 345-3277.
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