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Wednesday, May 6,1981
The Red and Black
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UGA Today NO, IT‘S NOT SCAFFOLDING
Landscaping lecture
The School of Environmental Design will hold its
spring quarter Vincent Lecture today at 3:30 p.m. in the
Brooks Hall auditorium. Edward H. Stone II, chief
landscape architect and assistant director for recreation
in the U.S. Forest Service, will speak on "Visual
Resource Management: The State of the Art.” The
public is invited.
Awards night tickets
Tickets are now available for the south campus
Awards Night banquet to be held Tuesday, May 12 at 7
p.m. in the Holiday Inn. The cost is $8 for students, $10
for faculty Purchase tickets in Room 102 Connor Hall or
from any Ag Hill Council representative by Friday, May
8. Former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk will speak
at the banquet on the "Global Food Supply in the Year
2000.” Call 542-2540 for further information.
Jnion summer division
Summer school
students are invited to
help plan the University
Union’s summer
programming schedule
Planning starts now, and
interested students
should attend the Union
Summer Division
meeting today at 4 p.m. in
Room 414, Memorial
Hall Drop by the Union
office in the Student
Activities Center to apply
for Summer Division if
you haven't already.
Sign up for bike race
WUOG and the Department of Student Activities, in
conjunction with the Athens Twilight Criterium, are
sponsoring a student open bicycle race Saturday. May 9,
at 1 p m. The race will be from 10 to 15 miles in length
around a .6 mile course beginning at the corner of
Sanford Drive and Carlton Street at the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education. Signup for the race at the
Memorial Hall business office with a $2 registration fee.
For more information contact Jane Russell in the
Department of Student Activities at 542-7774.
Campus roundup
The UGA College Republicans will hold their annual
campus convention tonight at 7:30 in Room 405
Memorial Hall. Officers for the 1981-82 academic year
will be elected College Republican State Chairman
Terry Gunnel will deliver a speech to the delegates
The International Associi tion of Business Com
municators will meet tonight at 7 in Room M2 of the
Journalism Building. Gayle Peeples of .outhern
Company will discuss "How tn Edit and Produce a
Corporate Magazine.”
Student’s work intrigues passers-by
By JOE KRAKOVIAK
K«! and Black Aaatatanl New. Editor
At first you don’t notice it. But then you do,
like when you see a pretty girl or good-
looking guy; an instant glance breaks your
concentration from something else, and you
look back for closer inspection. And then you
see that it has changed, and when you blink it
changes again.
This is Reflexions, the environmental
sculpture that quietly made its home
recently in the north courtyard of the
Journalism Building. The steel structure,
part of the University's continuing
“Sculpture on Campus” program, is the
creation of graduate art student Peggy
Reeve.
"After looking around the town and on
campus," she said, “I noticed that the
courtyard had many viewing points: two
roads, a balcony, the upper floors of the main
library and the psychology building.
“One of the main aspects of consideration
for this piece is that the viewer move around
to sense the different types of spaces and
shapes."
Thus the audience sees the magic of the
sculpture, a precise construction of rusting
steel bars, only at the second and third
glances The stiff geometric shapes of
straight lines and triangles seem to expand
and contract and sway as the viewer moves
around it.
Staff photo Nancy Shepherd
Sculpture sits in Journalism Building courtyard
Reeve described Reflexions as "a quiet
piece, part of the environment This area is
one of the busiest on campus, but not in the
courtyard. Most people don't even know this
is here."
While the sculpture is designed to fit in
with its environment, it draws attention to
the area without disrupting it The art piece
makes one notice the relative serenity of the
courtyard, the houiglass shape of the yard
emphasized by the lawn-mower pattern, the
wide-open space in the midst of buildings and
concrete
Even the choice of materials was in
fluenced by the desire for compatibility, the
artist said. The steel rusted quickly, a
natural reaction whose color tended to blend
with the vegetation in the yard The only
disruption was to ROTC exercising and an
occasional football game
Reeve, whose main adviser is Assistant
Professor Larry Millard, began the project
last October. The steel should have cost $500,
but a 50 percent discount from The Loef Co.
in Athens and a materials grant from Art
Department Head Frank Ruzicka made the
piece feasible
Physical Plant sent a surveyor to make the
exact placement and a work crew to
assemble the structure. Reflexions will stay
up another five months before being
dismantled
Many people have mistaken the sculpture
for many other things, Reeve said, including
scaffolding from the elevator construction
around the comer, a swing set, or some other
kind of playground equipment.
A friend of hers even suggested stringing
up a hammock so as to truly appreciate the
work of art
But there is a serious side to Reflexions, a
piece designed, she said, to make the busy
student stop and ponder his surroundings
"It is a challenge to pause, to look, to
wonder and reflect. Acceptance or rejec
tions, enjoyment, revulsion, indifference are
tiie viewer’s options.''
Mamatey case decision
is expected this week
From Stall Reports
A decision in the case of a University history professor who
is appealing a demotion will be reached later in the week, ac
cording to the professor's lawyer
Victor Mamatey appealed to the Board of Regents a deci
sion changing his status from research professor to regular
professor The regents held a hearing on the case at their
April meeting, after which Andrew Marshall, Mamatey's
lawyer, and the attorney general's office began discussing
the case.
Marshall said earlier this week he expected a decision by
Tuesday, but Tuesday he said the lawyers had not reached a
decision yet.
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