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tOlTOHIAt S OPINIONS. LCTfCRS TO INI fO.lTQH
Environmental studies
left with few choices
■ OUR OPINION: Debate
has ended program must
accept negatives
There l» a new coni rover•
sy rm campus that'* not
about problems in the damm
program or Cordon Smith'*
campus visitations This
controversy involve* the
environment No. it dim not
involve the Riverfront
Riawit h Park, but the envi*
momenta) studies depart*
men ft plan to move horn
Condon to the basement of
Pacific
At first gl«m«. it i« difft ■
cult tn tee why the environ
mental studies program is
not pleased with the move.
After all. they will soon
occupy not three rooms, hut
four, nearly doubling their
square footage to 2.400 —
quite an improvement for a
program that has only been
In existence for one year.
There is not an overabun
dance of office space on
campus, many organizations
do not have any office »|mm e
at all What am all of these
environmentalists t om*
plaining about? Well, the
environment in the base
moot of Pm ific.
A« cording to Richard
Gale, the program director,
an atmosphere of gray
unfinished cement blocks
and fiuoresi ent fights, like
the one in the basement*
resembles a prison He'* cor*
reel when he sav* that the
University Spac e Committee
could not have selected a
more symbolically inappro
priate location.
It is definitely under
standable how dirts ting
prospective magus and pro
fessors into n basement with
tiny windows would limit
the department's propensity
for prestige. You can almost
hear the (a< uIn advisor
now, “Oh. so you want !o
work outside. Iweathe fresh
air and help save the anvi
mnrmmt instead of destroy
ing (I? Wall, hop on down
into our dark «ave and
breathe (he stale air while
we sign you up for our pm
gram
The benefits of the new
lot at ion, such as space, are
outweighed by the location
itself According to Gale,
there is more to life than
spa* «■ Apparently, the Uni*
versify Spa*« Goinmittm
did not inform Gala of the
time when the relocation
would he on their agenda
Nonethole&s. the Universi
ty Spin *• Committee has
made its decision. It select
ed a location to dxommo
date the entire campus'
used for more classroom
space and the program's
future growth The Universi
ty lias allocated $10,000 for
renovations of the basement.
It has done its best to please
all parlies Rut Gale said he
would only be pleased if the
program can stay in their
current location until there
is space available in the law
School in three years
But the registrar and the
anthropology program an*
reclaiming tire two rooms
they donated to the program
to transform them into class
room*, leaving the program
with only one room in Con*
don. There is no way a pro
gram this large will be able
to function in only one
room
Although it is unclear
why the new c lassrooms in
Pa* ifii would not be suffi
cient. the department
should start a« cepling the*
rehaation baoiusu unfortu
nately. they have no other
alternative
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