Scenes from an urban campus ConOnMhMlpag.l Into Smith Memorial For many kinds of programs, the Center, the Student Union, for the opportunities for these experiences first tlme. Easy, comfortable chairs. are only avallabie on a large enough Lounges. Plants. The students were scale in an urban semng. And finally. reading books, notes, the in some of the professional areas, as '.vanguard'. student paper and well as the arts, the academtc computer printouts. wh~chI saw a lot programs are benefited by the of during my day visit to portland concentration here of fairly large State. They read and talked and numbers of practicing professonals slept. Student unions are like this on whose expertise can be drawn upon every campus. out the windows, on to enrich our offerings." the park blocks slde, 11was a Like a frlend of mlne who works campus. Out the Other side, the city! downtown and teaches a night class. a parking structure, Broadway headlng for the freeways. The talk: finals, impending doom, In the sculpture studio papers due, what'd you do last rooms it was ihke a strange movie weekend. . . scene about a museum of lost artifacts. Quiet. Trash barrel filled with broken pieces and a head of a In the catacombsof the man with a Roman nose. Clay union a glimpse of light from the splattered on the cans and walls, the windows, light and tree tops. Three rich color everywhere. Next door in a women met for coffee and cioarettes. crafts class a student saw me one reaolng a book on inler6ealate peex ng in. .Th#ss e ementary aaountlng scnoo . ' Everyone laughed. The Neuberger Hall, named alier the teacner: 'Now evelyln ng 1s d ~ e late senator Dick Neuberger, who was also a writer. in the lobby, the core of realitv of the camws: cashiers, payroll, registraiion and records, admissions, grades and problems, veterans, student adv~sing. And on the bulletinboards, like everwere else, the flyers were thick like graffiti. i picked up a map and on it a message from Joseph Blumel, oresldent of the Unuersitv. Wednesday. . The library is named after Branford Price Miliar, president of the university hom 1959-1968. His portrait is in the entrance. "Yes, anyone can use the llbrary services," the woman at the desk said, "but only students can check books out." Tne aavantages ot thd urban Computing services room localon aerlves from three sodrces except Monaay momlng men the one nas to oo wlln Ihe fact that the computer s down) The soh and students for the programs are now-familiar-to-manysound of the already here . . . machines. Students withprlntouts and "Another has to do with the cards. Next door, in Shatluck Hall, oartcular reauirements'of s~EzifiC which was bullt in 1915 and was krom r in the pa Eastem 1 and hum business my famlil Ofice fol Affa~nsr 1.031. th p&ims, especlaily m the 'area of once another school before the fleld work or practlcum experience Un~versltycame, a tap dance Class Is
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