fi—The Daily Collegian Monday, November 27, 1972 Ceramics center popular place By THERESA CALAFUT help the beginners and learn booth, students were able to Collegian Staff Writer from them. go there to work on their The center is limited in pottery any time there was no Intricate designs line the space, he added, and class in progress, in addition shelves, a black dog wanders ceramics is in demand at the to their regular class period, aimlessly around, students University. Since the center moved near mold clay over a typically “We accepted 105 students the center of campus, it is no messy workshop floor this this term and turned away longer open 24 hours a day, is the new ceramics center twice that amount,” he said. Lipscher said, located beside the Visual Arts Until this year the ceramics In the summer, he ex- Building. center was located near the plained, some plastics, clay In order to use the center, a information booth. When the and sand that were stored student must be part of a new art building was built, it outside were stolen, so it ceramics class, explained was moved to its present became necessary to lock the David Dontigny, associate location so that the two building at night. “It’s a professor of art. He said that buildings would be together hindrance,” he added, beginning, intermediate and as one unit, said Rich Lip- “because sometimes at noon advanced students work at scher (llth-ceramics). you feel like coming down the same time. In this way, When the center was here but the place is locked, the advanced students can situated near the information You won’t feel like it in the SUGAR BOWL S-TRIRi 5 DAYS & 4 NIGHTS IN BEAUTIFUL NEW ORLEANS COST INCLUDES: Monteleone Hotel in heart of French Quarter Ticket & transportation to game Pre-game party Tips and taxes ★ ★ ALTERNATE TRIP: 4 days <S 3 nights, December 30 to January 2 $159 + INFORMATION U.U.B. 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The others, he added, built over the summer, are more creative and more electric kilns and kilns for interested in the artistic Raku, a Japanese art form, aspects of ceramics, trying to Besides these, students are - express themselves in their building more kilns under the work. supervision of Dontigny and James Stephenson, assistant professor of art, Lipscher said. The students using the center, Lipscher added, pay a $l5 or $2O fee and have access to as many materials as they want. Students can do whatever they wish with the clay, which is “very demanding,’’ explained Dontigny. “It won’t work if the dryings are too slow or too fast,” he said. Lipscher further explained that a technique must be developed, which takes years to achieve. He emphasized that pottery is an art, not a craft, saying that there are two kinds of vessels, struc tural and functional. Peale calls Nixon \great peacemaker' NEW YORK (AP) President Nixon wound up a nostalgic holiday weekend with his family here yesterday and heard himself called “one of the great peacemakers in history" at a church service. Nixon climaxed a trip that began with a visit to his old Wall Street law firm on Friday by attending church services yesterday conducted by long-time family friend. Coming: Nov. 30, Doc., 1,3,3 TORAI TORA! TORAI Wiring Lounge Davidson Barbershop be closed today because of Deer Season. There is a lot of variety in ceramics, Lipscher said. There are many different kinds of molds and firings, and all the equipment is available. He explained further that there are various glazes and decals and many combinations of materials that can be used. He said that it is possible to “get funky effects” with special glazes or lusters, in which the object is plated with gold or silver. Lipscher explained “funky” by saying that “clay feels organic. You can make forms with it.” The ceramic center will have a ceramic conference later this year, in which three national ceramic artists will show their work. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The President and his party flew to Camp David, Md., later in the day. Before attending church, Nixon met for a second time with special adviser Henry Kissinger, whoxeturnedfrom the Paris peace talks Saturday night. Nixon, accompanied by his wife Pat, Julie Eisenhower, Tricia and Edward Cox and Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, then went to church. There were about 1,400 persons in the church and the overflow watched on closed circuit color television in another church hall. In prayer, Dr. Peale said, “Nixon has become one of the great peacemakers in history” and expressed the hope that he “may evolve indeed a generation of peace.” On Saturday, Nixon drove past the upper East Side apartment where he lived before taking the oath for his first term and waded through crowds at Rockefeller Center. Pat and daughter Julie went Christmas shopping while the Coxes spent part of the day apartment hunting. SUGAR BOWL SPECIAL $169.00 double $159.00 triple or quad Includes: Round-trip jet from Harrisburg to New Orleans Round-trip transfers from the airport to the hotel in New Orleans (including baggage handling) 3 nights at the Sheraton-Charles Hotel (adjacent to the French Quarter) Welcome party with one hour open bar , live band and dancing (Drinking age 18) Transfers from the hotel to the Sugar Bowl and return Game ticket KERN INFORMATION DESK „ 237-6501 865-1878 (Penn State Travel) Spruce Creek Concer By RICK NELSON Collegian Junior Reporter SPRUCE CREEK More than 80 people met here yesterday to discuss a Penn sylvania Department of Transportation proposal to build a road through this village possibly displacing homes or causing en vironmental damage. The citizens of Spruce Creek filled the United Methodist Church to standing room only and heard Marty Abromavage, tem porary chairman of the citizens' ad hoc committee to study the proposal, tell them that PennDOT had ignored them in planning three possible routes through the village. The need for a new road through Spruce Creek, located about 26 miles southwest of State College on Route 45, arose when rain from Tropical Storm Agnes washed out a nearby section of Route 45 in June. Two of the three proposed routes would pass through Spruce Creek displacing homes. A third route could possibly cause contamination to the water supply. Abromavage pointed out at the meeting that in other states, citizens have suc cessfully fought government planned high way projects. He mentioned as an example that residents of Arlington, Va. prevented the construction of an interstate highway in their county. He said highway departments in some states prepare booklets explaining the necessity for and effects of a proposed project and release them to the public. He added that so far all PennDOT has done is prepare an environmental impact statement in accordance with the National En vironmental Policy Act of 1969. According to the act, an impact statement draft must be written and made available to the public. A final statement, including in formation on environmental effects and public reaction if any, must then be prepared Departure from Harrisburg December 30 January 2 Sponsored by GRADUATE COMMONS road n expressed before construction can begin He said citizens have thirty days in which to respond to an environmental impact statement, but that he was told it would take three to five weeks to obtain 20 copies for the residents of Spruce Creek. He said that ac cording to the law, “it's already too late for us." Some confusion exists, nowever, con cerning the present stage of PennDOT’s plans. A PennDOT spokesman indicated in a WFBG-TV newscast Friday that plans are still in the preliminary stages and, therefore, no public reaction has been sought. Abromavage said, however, if planning is still in the early stages, an environmental impact statement would not yet have been prepared. He said the federal government prepared guidelines in 1971 explaining the procedure that should be used by a state highway department in planning a new road. The guidelines said that more than one govern mental department should review the plans and that the plans should be made available to the public through newspaper ads. He said while it is possible that the plans were reviewed by other agencies, the proposal has never been advertised. Another concern was what would happen to traffic when it returned to the old road after traveling over the approximately three-mile long proposed new route. Concern was ex pressed that the comparatively poor con dition of the old road would cause an increase in accidents. One citizen supporting the road, however, said “progress is priceless.” The next step of the citizens of Spruce Creek, according to Abromavage, is to submit a petition to PennDOT asking that the citizens group be included in the decision making process and that they have a say in what plan is finally accepted.
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