News brief
Student Senate drains
surplus for safer vans
By a vote of 12-2, the ASUO Stu
dent Senate allocated the remain
ing S13.887, left in surplus money
for the year, to Programs and As
sessments in order to make pro
gram vans safer.
The money will be used to outfit
the 15 passenger vans used by the
Designated Driver Shuttle and the
Outdoor Program with a double set
of tires on the rear wheels. The ex
tra tires will make the vans less
likely to roll over.
Some senators expressed reser
vations about giving away all of the
surplus money when other groups
would be coming before the senate
next week with special requests.
“I think we should leave at least
$500 in our coffers,” Sen. Andy
Elliott said.
Sen. Mary Elizabeth Madden and
other senators disagreed, saying
that the safety issues behind the re
quest made it necessary to allocate
the full amount asked for.
“If we don’t give them the mon
ey and there’s an accident next
week, how are we going to feel?’’
she said. “Let’s get real. We’re talk
ing about safety here.”
The senate will have $5,000 of
surplus money to distribute during
summer term.
In other requests, the senate ap
proved several transfers of funds
from within the accounts of the
ASUO Programs Finance Commit
tee, MEChA and the European
Student Association.
Senators also heard requests for
future support from KWVA radio
General Manager Charlotte Nisser,
community activist Zach Vishanoff
and Dennis Munroe, who is the di
rector of Physical Activity and
Recreation Services.
Sen. Ben Buzbee announced his
resignation from the senate next year.
Buzbee, who officially takes office as
ASUO Vice President Saturday, said
he couldn’t hold both positions.
— Kara Cogswell
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CRIME
WATCH
Disorderly Conduct
and Vandalism
Thursday, May 16,12:45 a.m.:
A caller from Earl Complex reported a
noise violation.
Thursday, May 16,12:49 p.m,:
A caller from Burgess Hall reported a
noise violation.
Thursday, May 16,7:52 a.m.:
DPS received a report of a reckless
burning near RP. Barnhart.
Saturday, May 18,10:40 p.m.:
DPS officers contacted three minors
who appeared intoxicated and had
been playing hide-and-seek in the
Pioneer Cemetery,
Sunday, May 19,4:26 a.m.:
D PS received a report of a male
breaking windows at the Parking
information Kiosk.
Theft
Wednesday, May 15,2:56 p.m.:
DPS received a report of a parse stolen
from the EMU.
Friday, May 17,6:39 a.m,:
Property was reported stolen from the
Student Recreation Center.
Friday, May 17,7:57 a,m.:
A break-in was reported in the
education building.
Friday, May 17,6:02 p.m.:
A purse was reported stolen from
outside of McKenzie Hail.
Saturday, May 18,10:25 p.m.;
A caller reported three people
attempting to break into the Carson
Hall warehouse.
Monday, May 20,10:42 a.m.:
Property was reported stolen from the
music building.
Monday, May 20,5:48 p.m.:
Property was reported stolen from
McKenzie Hall.
Harassment
and Violence
Wednesday, May 15,10:07 p.m.:
A female caller from Parsons Hall
reported being harassed.
Thursday, May 16,10:25 p.m.:
A caller from Smith Hall reported
telephone harassment.
Friday, May 17,2:05 p.m.:
A caller from Hawthorne Hall reported
telephone harassment.
Drugs and Alcohol
Thursday, May 16,11:11 p.m.:
OPS was called to Spiller Hall to
confiscate drug paraphernalia.
Friday, May 17,4:07 p.m,:
OPS received a report of several people
with open containers of alcohol in the
Pioneer Cemetery.
Saturday, May 18,7:59 a.m.:
OPS received a report of three males
with open alcohol containers harassing
people near Gerlinger Half.
Saturday, May 18,4:58 p.m.:
A caller reported a person smoking
marijuana in the Pioneer Cemetery.
Sunday, May 19,5:44 p.m.:
DPS officer contacts a person in
possession of less than an ounce of
marijuana in the EMU.
Studio
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picked up in textbooks. Each stu
dio is a partitioned classroom sit
uated along an open hallway,
where students work on projects at
individual drafting tables. Below
each student’s desk space, there
are gated cages where they can
lock their possessions.
Each classroom focuses on a dif
ferent type of project, and students
must complete two studios every
term for five terms, for a total of 10
studios. “Studio” is the term used to
refer to the class and the room itself.
There are approximately 15 stu
dents in every studio, each governed
by a professor. Studios are located in
both Pacific and Lawrence halls.
Some architecture students such
as Wax really do almost live in their
studios. Michael Fifield, a professor
of architecture and head of the de
partment, said there is more to “stu
dio culture” than spending time de
signing at a work space. Camaraderie
and long-lasting friendships can
evolve in the long hours students
spend with each other.
Fourth-year graduate student
Bjorn Nelson said his project,
which he started in January, is de
signing a model of a proposed
public architecture institution in
lower Manhattan.
“If you are a designer, you never
finish,” he said. “You just quit at
some point when you run out of
time.”
Fifield said instructors interact
with their students on a daily basis.
Instructors critique the work of
their students both individually
and in small groups.
“It’s much different than being in
a lecture class,” Fifield said.
Hours away from home
Students are required to spend
12 hours a week in studio working
on single or multi-term projects but
can put in more than 40 hours, Fi
field said. Twelve hours a week just
isn’t enough time to complete all
the work that goes into a project,
and the hours students spend in
crease even more as the end of the
term approaches.
Many students are currently
preparing to present their final proj
ects in June, which are incorporated
into students’ portfolios to be used
for job interviews after graduation.
“It’s a lot like marketing, because
when it’s time to present, it’s basical
ly selling a product to a client,” jun
ior architecture major Alex Yale said.
“I put in at least five hours a day
outside of class,” said Yale, who is
also minoring in business. Yale
said he is taking 17 credits this
term, including studio.
“Even though it’s a lot of time,
you are working on a project that
has value and goes beyond just
yourself,” he said.
In studio, students customize
their desks to fit their personal
needs. Fifield said the only re
strictions are that structures must
not be built too high to fail the fire
marshal’s standards.
“Each person has a nest of their
own,” architecture Professor Chris
tine Theodoropoulos said. Outside
of students’ individual nests,
Theodoropoulos said Lawrence Hall
also features a coffee shop to meet
students’ food and beverage needs.
As beginning students mature,
Fifield said they learn to manage
their time better so they are “not
pulling as many all-nighters.”
“My first year, I set up a ham
mock, and I spent a lot of nights in
the hammock sleeping,” Yale said.
Task force studies effects
of studio culture
Architecture studio culture
is about forming a close-knit
community of people who
work intensely on a project
over a period of time, architec
ture Professor Christine
Theodoropoulos said.
“We’re an interesting group,”
second-year architecture major
Jessica Black said. “We find it
hard to talk about anything be
sides architecture.”
Catherine Lux, from The
American Institute of Architec
ture Students, said her organiza
tion has assembled a four-mem
ber task force of representatives
from various universities,
formed in November 2000, to
monitor the health and safety
concerns of studio culture.
AIAS is a student advocacy
group that represents the needs
of architecture students across
the country.
Deanna Smith, chairwoman
of the task force and a fifth-year
architecture student at Drury
University in Springfield, Miss.,
said the task force originally
hoped to compile statistics from
the feedback it received from
various schools. But Smith said
the task force found such infor
mation could not be obtained or
was not available from architec
ture , departments and health
clinics nationwide.
Instead, Smith said the task
force is finalizing a paper its
members hope to publish that
details 12 areas of investigation
such as health issues, sleep dep
rivation, depression and time
management, as well as remedies
for the problems. The paper has
taken the form of subjective sto
ries from educators and profes
sors of problems that have arisen
with architecture students.
-—Lisa Toth
But experience has taught him
ways to be more efficient in studio.
“The trick is not socializing,” he
added. Theodoropoulos said there
are positive and negative aspects to
studio culture that involve the safety
and health of each architecture stu
dent under “intensity and pressure.”
“It can be exhilarating — but
sometimes it can go too far,” she said.
All studio classes are pass/no
pass, and there is no graded op
tion. Fifield said this is intended
to diminish competition so stu
dents are “not trying to hide their
designs in a corner. It fosters
unique communication.”
E-mail features reporter Lisa Toth
at lisatoth@dailyemerald.com.