1969_05 The Daily Collegian May 1969

              2   THE JOURNALIST   Wednesday, May 21, 1969   ,
Work Is Delayed
On Art Building
By Kathy «uesada
The art department has al¬
ready outgrown a building which,
has not yet been built.
Furthermore, the building has
been hampered by delays from
the very beginning.
Construction for the proposed
building, which will be north of
the Administration Building, has
been held up because the state
has not been able to sell bonds
Meanwhile, the art department
continues to grow.
Ed Lund, assistant professor of
than 100 graduate students and a
thousand undergraduate students
currently   enrolled   ln  art,   the
from the outset.
•Plans for an addition already
i approved
various problems.
A good start was made when
the designs for the building were
drawn by the art faculty in 1965,
which then submitted the designs
to the campus planning commit-
But the committee's favorite
design was rejected by the con¬
sulting architect, who said the
plan was not ln harmony with the
architecture of other campus
buildings.
Finally, ln May of 1967, the
Board of Trustees approved a
modified version of another plan
-"'-1 by the campus planning
lag I
i high r
YOUR CUP OF TEA? At least until seven years
ago acting was Assistant Academic Vice President
Paul McGulre's cup or lea. But the lack of Job se¬
curity in the movie business led htm to seek an-
"Heartbreak House," produced In 1963. t
Karen Cadle and Trudl Beer appear to be I
cup of lea to McGuire. cast ln the role i
Bernard Shaw.
Actor Turned Administrator
Plans Return to Hollywood
By Ji
slstant Academic Vice president
Paul McGuire made the switch
seven years ago at the age of 49.
McGuire, now 56, said he could
explain ln 63 words why he left
the glitter and glamour of Holly¬
wood to go into education. Actual¬
ly he needed only 12 words.
•Because acting Is not as glam¬
ourous as many think," said
McGuire, "but hard work.*
McGuire explained that when
he began acting ln the early
1940's, there were probably 4,000
actors In the Held. But by 1960,
there were 16,000 actors--an in-
McGulre decided he needed a to roe thai
steadier Job and went back to lnterprete<
college. audience  .
After   obtaining his roaster's     preclation.
degree from San Fernando Valley McGuire
State College, McGuire workw
for Chancellor Glenn S. Dumkc
for  two years
e of 4(
•The
per ej
number of people in¬
creased four to one but the num¬
ber of Jobs decreased four to
one,* said McGuire.
•You might earn $750 per week
for five weeks working on a
movie, but earn nothing for the
next two months,* he said.
"But I had wanted to act despite
the hardships and waiting for the
phone to ring.*
Becauso of a growing family,
McGuire said he does not think
lt unusual for an actor to switch
to academics, pointing out that
•our governor was an actor too."
McGuire, sporting a mustache
compUmenting his salt and pep¬
per colored hair, explained that
he was a feature actor playing
ln supporting roles.
He was often cast ln westerns.
McGuire said he played on both
sides of the law—primarily on the
wrong side. 'But whichever side
of the law, the money was stlU
the same.*
Built For The Part
He Is taU and slender now but
McGuire said he was heavier ln
his acting days and easily fit the
roles of a doctor, lawyer or bus-
principal Involves
coordinating the schedule of over
3,000 classes. Next semester he
will be taking an "overload" to
teach a class ln motion picture
McGuire said he doesn't dis¬
courage anyone from acting.
•Do it If you want to, go lt alone
prepared for that struggle
—
for the future," said Lund.
The 35,925-square-foot build¬
ing will accommodate only half
of the art department faclUUes.
The other classes and facilities
will continue to be housed ln the
present building.
•Painting, ceramics and sculp¬
ture will have the best faculties,
but they are going to be cramped,
Design, crafts and history
classes wiU be in the new two-
story building.
The rest of the classes -
painting, drawing, photography
and graphics - wiU remain ln
the present building.
Not only wiU the new art build¬
ing be cramped but lt appears
there will not be enough money
to furnish lt.
■We have $150,000 to furnish
the building, which is insane;
sculpture alone could spend
$150,000.
■If we want any more (money),
we will have to go to the legis¬
lature; at this point, that would
be rough,* said Lund.
Lund Indicated equipment for
the students would come first and
that faculty office furnishings
would be considered last.
Originally scheduled to open
for the 1969-70 school year, the
art building has been delayed by
•What we have la at best a
compromise,* said Land.
The new art building wUl con¬
sist of concrete and wood on the
outside and tackwood and rough
cedar on the Inside.
Lund thinks that from the
working drawings and elevations,
the building wlU be exciting.
Further delay of construction
was caused by communication
problems. •,
The art department and archi¬
tects had difficulty ln communi¬
cating their ideas on the building,
according to Lund.
The new art building wiU have
faculty offices, design rooms and
three graduate studios on the top
Tbe flrst floor will have cer¬
amics, sculpture, a metals room,
tool storage and machinery fa¬
clUUes.
A large- and small gallery will
be part of the new building.
There also will be a landscaped
courtyard.
The proposed art building is ln
the last phase of three phases
that all proposed state coUege
campus   buildings   have to go
Before actual construction can
Wednesday, May 21, 1969   THE JOURNALIST   3
approved by the chancellor's of¬
fice In Los Angeles.
Tbe latest estimated price for
the building Is $1.5 million, ac-   ,
cording to BUl Myers, building
coordinator.
Until the actual contract U
awarded for the construction of
the building, there Is a possibil¬
ity of further delays.
Swensen's i
McGuire said he preferred to
ln comedies'because Its more
i make people laugh than to
He also preferred to play
elderly
COMING SOON
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ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION
e bellev
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able, funny things that you could¬
n't do with a young character."
His Ust of rooUon picture
credits is lengthy. McGuire
has acted ln 'The Spoilers,"
•The Breaking Point", "TwoMll-
Uon Dollar Bank Robbery* and
"Calne MuUny,*and many others.
He also has numerous tele¬
vision programs to his credit
Including 'Death Valley Days*,
"Wells Fargo", "Laramie",
•Ford Theatre", and "Perry Ma-
I  was egotistical enough to be-
Ueve that I could make It."
He Will Return
McGuire said he win probably
go back to acting after he re¬
tires. 'There's no greater thriU
(arnation
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■This Is the trailer truck that
polluted the air which polluted
the clouds which polluted the rain
that fell to earth and polluted
the land which polluted the plants
and the water...and poisoned
roan,* stated a recent article
ln "Grade Teacher' magazine.
A science teacher was quoted
ln the same article saying,
«. . . roan la polluting his air,
poisoning his water and upsetting
the balance of Ufe on the land.
And he's doing this largely out
of Ignorance of the consequences
of his acts. . . I beUeve the way
to combat this Is to make young¬
sters aware of their environment
when they are young.*
To Implement his beliefs be
founded a summer workshop in
ecology, the study of the Interre¬
lationship and interdependence
of aU Uvlng things.
Lloyd Gent, principal of Lin¬
coln Elementary SchoollnReed-
ley, having the same basic be-
Uef started a program caUed
Scicon. The name was formed
by combining the first three let¬
ters of science and conservation.
At Its founding ln 1963 three
schools were Involved. Now the
12 elementary schools ln the
Kings Canyon Unified School
District participate. This year
about 400 sixth-grade students,
12 to 15 teachers, and 40 stu¬
dent-counselors from Reedley
High School and Reedley CoUege
are taking part.
The program Is financed by a
$3,000 budget allotment from the
school district and a $14 fee
from each student attending.
Decentralization
(Continued from Page 1)
form the schools Into true com¬
munity Institutions that are con¬
structive centers of hope. What
matters .far more than one an¬
other's portion of responslbiUty
and control la what they do ln
tandem to Improve the education
of the school chUdren...*
But when problems began to
arise the Ford Foundation was
pointed out as the faU guy by
many persons since lt had de¬
signed to a large part and fi¬
nanced almost In total New York's
decentralization projects.
The Backlash
The city was hit with three
teacher strikes which kept most
of the city's 900 pubUc schools
closed and almost all of Its 1.1
The shutdown
Brooklyn's Ocean HiU-Urowns-
vlUe experimental school dis¬
trict, which ordered teachers
transferred on charges of un¬
satisfactory performance, and by
the reaction of the teachers'
union, which charged that this
was vlalation of due process.
Dundy said, The technique of
accusation by association with
Ford Foundation grants Is dis¬
turbingly reminiscent of the tech¬
nique of guilt by association, so
wantonly used ln another period
of American history. If leaders
of nonprofit civic, educational,
and cultural organ! rations were
debarred or Intimidated by such
charges from serving on boards
of education and similar bodies,
the pubUc and philanthropic Ufe
of our city and nation would be
robbed of tbe services of
thousands of talented men and
'....The Ford Foundation has
not changed Its mind, nor have I,
about the significance of a strong,
constructive role for the parents
of New York City ln the educa¬
tion process. We still believe
that the experiments ln school
decentralization are Important
as a means of helping parents,
the community, and the teachers
reconnect for more effective
teaching and learning; as such
they are worthy of fuUer de¬
velopment.*
f>
The foundation is also assist¬
ing In the development of a pro¬
posed community controUed
school district ln south-central
Los Angeles.
Separatist Argument
One argument against de-
centraUration is that lt feeds
black nationalism or separation.
Bundy wrote '...The destiny
of the black ln America Is to
be both black and American, and.,
as he makes progress he is like¬
ly to do what the rest of us do;
be wlU take pride ln his partic¬
ular group at the same Ume that
he Insists on full membership in
the society asa whole. ..and in that
wider society the great oppor¬
tunities can never be reserved
tor one kind only. Much too
slowly sou, but with steadily
Increasing speed, American
blacks win take their share of
leadership in the general Insti¬
tutions of society.*
He continued, They wlU not
thereby cease to be black, and not
for a long Ume wlU any proud
black forget the need to serve
his people's cause along with
his own Individual Interests. But
none of us who are white should
suppose that blacks will really
choose to stand aside from Amer¬
ican life as a whole.
They will Insist, Instead, on
their share, and that share Im¬
plies - lt Inescapably requires -
the right to integration: There Is
only one bar and bench, only one
system of government, only one
national marketplace, and only
one community of scholars. Our
great general Institutions —
unions and universities, business
and bureaucracies—wUl have to
open to all.*
SU Days in Sierras
The exact dates of the camp
vary from year to year depend¬
ing on snow conditions, but during
April and May groups of about 100
students are bussed to the Bob
Matblas Sierra Boys Camp ln
the Sierra Nevadas at an ele¬
vation of about 5,000 feet. Each
group stays tor a six-day period,
from Monday until Saturday.
Throughout the week the four
basic concepts of ecology—di¬
versity, Interrelationship, adapt¬
ation and change--are Illustrated
ln Innumerable ways.
Students are taught to use aU
of their senses to discover the
vastness and complexity of the
world around them. For exam¬
ple, they try to count the dif¬
ferent kinds of grasses, flowers,
shrubs, trees or herbs ln a
given area.
Students are shown that all of
nature fits into one large pat¬
tern. They are asked such ques¬
tions as, 'What would happen if
all the birds or all tha trees
pines are prevalent.
On the narrow Uttle road Into
the campsite the erosional ef¬
fects of the road's construction
are emphasized. A tree was
undercut and lt stands with half
Its roots banging over tbe road.
The snow runoff from years past
has washed away more soU from
questioning the students discover
that nature Is trying to adapt to
the situation. In an effort to
balance the tree, aU the branches
that would normally have hung
over the road have died and faUen
off while the branches on the other
side are thriving.
One day the campers are bus¬
sed to Grant Grove where they
observe the giant Sequoias and
talk to the park
fits of the six-day trip, the par¬
ticipants grow emotionally. For
the majority of youngsters lt Is
their flrst experience of being
away from borne for any length
of time. The classes from each
school are divided among the
various girls' and boys' cabins
so they must learn to get along
with strangers. The students
are given various reeponsibUl-
Ues, ranging from cleaning the
cabin tor the daily inspection to
washing the dishes. The ex¬
perience ot a different Uvlng
situation and of the responsi¬
bilities is, in itself, beneficial.
Gelst, Scicon director, la re¬
tiring from his prtndpalship this
year, thus eliminating what be
says la his biggest problem -
not enough Ume.
•When lt Involved only three
schools and only ran one week,
lt was Dot such a problem; but a
principal Just can't be away from
i school tor tour weeks.'
Gelst, who earned his masters
Through illustrating adapta¬
tion, students see that certain
plants grow ln certain areas or
that coloration effects survlvaL
Change Is the only constant ln
nature. Left alone, nature will
always change. Tbe students lo¬
cate different stages of change
ln different places, such as tad¬
poles ln various stages of trans¬
ition to frogs.
Some typical experiences
during the week might be these:
Monday morning the bus Is load¬
ed and starts up Highway 180.
It stops to allow students to
notice the obvious changes ln veg¬
etation. The vineyards, fruit or¬
chards and orange groves give
way to oak trees and grasses.
The plants no longer depend on
irrigation ditches for water but
rely on that retained in the sou
after rain and snow.
As the bus travels higher, va¬
riety of shrubs becomes common.
Redbud Is blooming profusely.
Then the redbud begins to thin
Another day, under the guid¬
ance of the park rangers, they
help reforest Kings Canyon Nat¬
ional Park by planting young -
pine trees.
During a hike on another day
they come upon a large granite
boulder covering half the hlU-
slde. Mosses and lichens are
growing on lt. Ferns and suc¬
culents are growing ln the cracks
where dust and soil have a
cumulated. Further up, ln a larger
fault, a tree Is growing,
the various actions of these plants
the large granite chunk Is slowly
being turned to soil.
Recreation Offered
But the week la not all hikes
and 'nature study*. There U
time out tor a softball game oi
a rowboat excursion on the lake
or maybe a Utile fishing. The
students learn a Utile about his¬
tory. They visit the potholes
worn ln the rocks by Indian
squaws grinding acorns tor meal, problems as the pollution of air
They visit the cabin site where and water. There wlU be more
Sontag and Evans, tne valley's people considering all the effects
famous train robbers, held off a of damming a river, building a
Fresno posse before finally be- road or locating a factory on a
lng- killed by a VlsaUa posse, lakesbore. There wlU be more
Or perhaps they find a blaze people who realize that the very
(an axe mark on a tree) made survival of society depends on
by early setUers to mark prop- how many people understand the
arty boundaries. principles of ecology andhow well
Outside of the educational bene-    they understand them.
said another problem Is the train¬
ing of teachers and counselors.
Not all the counselors and
teachers can attend the two-day
training session and even when
they do participate, they can
hardly be called experts.
An evaluation of the effective¬
ness of Scicon is difficult De¬
nse there is nothing concrete
> which to base a judgment.
It Is not Uke teaching a child
to read or to add numbers. Tbe
learning la Dot clearly visible
wlU  soon be a growing number
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to those we met, and those not yet
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