Portland State University Alumni News Fall 1985 Inside Racist memorabilia I 3 The many faces of racism are reflected in black studies professor's collection China Journal I 5 PSU engineering prof returns to his natIve China as the leader of an Alumni Tour On assignment I 6 A day in the life and thoughts of ph%journalist Michael Lloyd ('15) An All-Star Event I 9 PSU inVItes alumni and friends 10 celebrate its 40th year AlumNotes I 4 Foundation News I 9 Campus News I 10 Calendar I 11 Also Special Supplement: 1984-85 Annual Gifts Report On the cover: Artist Tom Morandi puts flnlshmg louches on "Yankee Champion," PSU's newest sculpture. Sculpture heralds new campus building phase The Oct. 24 unveiling of "Yankee Champion," Portland State's newest sculptural acquisition, was a happy occasion in its own right. The piece, created by La Grande, Ore. artist Tom Morandi, was long in coming. Commissioned in 1984, the stainless steel tripod was installed at the corner of S.W. Broadway and Montgomery five years after completion of the Professional Schools Building, the construction of which included the cost of acquiring art. But the arrival of the sculpture and the attendant celebration also served as a kind of herald for the first new construction activity on campus since 1980. Thanks to action by the state legislature and the State Board of Higher Education, the PSU campus will soon witness the once familiar sights and sounds of rnajor building construction and remodeling. More than $15 million in projects are on the drawing boards or already approved. Included are the second phase of the Professional Schools Building, new student housing and remodeling of the University's computing center. The University is also adding to its inventory of academic buildings an existing structure that for two years has housed the Portland Center for Advanced Technology. Funding sources are as varied as the projects themselves, including the new state lottery, private foundations, parking and building fees, and general fund tax money. More building, of course, means more art. At the Morandi sculpture dedication, PSU President Joseph Blumel remarked, "While we are excited about this new construction from an academic point of view ... we look with equal anticipation toward the possibility of adding to the public's art collection through the "Percent for Art" program ." The changes that the PSU campus will experience in the next two years are reviewed here. Portland Center for Advanced Technology In 1983, the University moved its electrical and computer engineering Continued on page 2 A look at "Yankee Champion" Artist: Tom Morandi, resident of La Grande, Ore, and member of the art faculty at Eastern Oregon State College. Location: Triangular lawn in front of Professional Schools Building, S.W. Broadway and Montgomery. Size: 15 feet high ; 1.5 tons Material: Stainless steel Method: Pieces cut by CO, arc from V'6" and '/6" sheets of stainless steel, welded together, ground down and sanded. Lifted into place in three parts by crane. Cost: $29,000 Funding: "Percent for Art," a state program that sets aside 1 % of the construction cost of public buildings for the acquisition of art. Artist's interpretation: "The lyrically abstract nature of its components is discreetly balanced by the delicately interlocking joints in the upper sections, thus offering a visual acknowledgment of the complex amalgam of humankind and technology required of a contemporary university."
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