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
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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
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