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
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morning.” Most of the, people in the
The center contains many class, he said, are not art
types of materials, Dontigny majors and come only to
said, such as porcelain, learn how to use the potter’s
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silica, glass and clay. It also vessels and learn form and
has salt kilns, which were shape. 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.
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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
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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
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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.