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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1981)
Students live, learn in environment halls By STEVE HOOKS Something's brewing in the campus residence halls. In the name of environmental awareness, about 260 residents of the Walton Complex have enlisted In an experimental liv ing program called — appro priately enough — Environ mental Awareness Halls Students enrolled in the program participate in environ mentally related projects and field trips The feedback has been over whelming, resident adviser Mark Mastin says ‘I think it’s neat to have seminars close to where I live’ Douglass Hall originally was intended to be the only environ mental dorm, accommodating 65 students But over 300 students applied to participate in the program Even after adding Adams, Sweetser and Clark halls to the program, some students still had to be turned away, he says One of the projects on the burner ts a solar-heated still to produce alcohol — for fuel, not consumption Mastin says a solar green house also is in the works The environmental aware ness dorm is part of the Univer sity housing office's new "special interest halls” program "We wish to maintain a broad spectrum of activities and hope to incorporate faculty members and other organizations, such as the Sierra Club, the Outdoor Program and the Survival Center into the program,” Mastin says Hiking trips, ski trips and bicycling trips as well as slide shows and lectures are on the drawing board. Mastin says The first scheduled activity will be a day hike in the Cascades on Oct 10 and will be led by geomorphologist Lars Sorenson "I haven't had that much ex perience in the outdoors," says Wendy Reimann, resident adviser of Sweetser Hall, "but I'm hoping to learn and I hope ...and to think we met through an ODE PERSONAL other people are willing also." Relmann says she is im pressed with the interest the residents have in the proposed projects and outings, and says she is optimistic that future programs would be successful and that residents would work well together. Sweetser resident John Wood, a fine and applied arts major, said he chose an en vironmental dorm because he thought the political conscious ness of the residents would be more compatible with his Wood, who has a degree in sociology, attended Huxley College of Environmental Studies in Bellingham, Wash , and has been active in environ mental and social groups such as the Trojan Decommissioning Alliance (an anti-nuclear group) and United Farm Workers “I think it’s neat to have seminars close to where I live,” Wood says, adding that he likes being educated and educating others on the environment Wood says he doesn't have the resources to do many outdoor activities by himself and that he hoped living in an en vironmental dorm would make those activities more accessi ble Claudia Rednall, a Sweetser Hall resident, says she wants to observe nature rather than just study It from a textbook and to learn more about outdoor sur vival and conservation. The recreation and park man agement major from Hong Kong says she wants to learn to identify the shrubbery of the Northwest ‘I haven’t had that much experience in the outdoors, but I’m hoping to learn.’ Marjory Ramey, assistant dir ector of housing, says the en vironmental hall program still is in the experimental stage but adds she is optimistic about its success She says professors of relat ed subjects would advise future projects Response from re sidence hall students will deter mine the program's direction, she says RAIN CHECK Check the rain and foul weath er gear we offer. Smartly styled and functional for serious downpours or after dinner walks In Gore-Tex, Bukflex and coated nylon from the folks who know how to make it. Tr All wise Kelly Wilderness Experience Banana Equipment North Face Black ke Ascente Peter Storm Ralnfalr 57 W Broadway • Mon.-Sat. 9:30-5:30 Sun. 12:00-5:00 Eugene Downtown • 686-2332 %■> Reactin', wiltin' and rockin' Back to school means back to the books, but eased by hearing the beat of her own drummer for Linda Bickers, the return to academia was — and the rest of her favorite musical band. 10% DISCOUNT To U. of O. Students, Foculty ond Staff on Service ond Repairs With current full-time student or staff University I D cord Service Deportment open Mon.-Fri.: 7:30-5:30, Sot.: 8:00-5:00 1570 South A. Springfield 746-8241 /IEGRI/T
