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Wednesday June 16, 2010
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ConstruCtion
University begins lot expansions Construction, restriping will mean an additional 222 spaces for students. By John hArden The Shorthorn news editor
As lots begin to close in preparation for the construction on the east side of campus, the university will begin constructing a new student lot and expanding another. The newest lot to be opened will occupy the space where Legacy Heights apartments currently sit. Facilities Management will begin demolishing the apartments, which sit behind the UTA Bookstore, this week. The new lot will be used to help support the construction of the pending special events center
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and College Park, a mixed used development, which is a parking garage wrapped around apartments and dormitories. The university-owned apartments will be torn down this summer to create a new Lot 38. The lot will add 145 spaces, said Jeff Johnson, Facilities Management associate director. On June 21, the university will begin restriping the south section of Lot 47, which is located to the west of Kalpana Chawla Hall. The restriping will add an additional 77 spaces to the already 596 parking spaces. With major construction underway for development of the east side of campus, more than 456 spaces will be removed after parking continues on page 3
ArChiteCture
Area schools study at UTA Local high school students learn about architecture in free two-week camp. By reBekAh kArth The Shorthorn staff
High school junior Yvonne Olguin remembers driving around with her father and admiring the buildings they would pass on the road. She would wonder how architects built the houses they would pass and how they decided what materials to use. Ologuin’s interest in architecture led her to the architecture magnet program at Skyline High School in Dallas. Olguin’s exploration of architecture continues this summer at UTA as part of an annual camp for high school students. For the fifth year in a row, area high school students can explore architecture at SEED, a free two-week camp hosted by UTA’s School of Architecture. The camp, which stands for Strategies, Events, Episodes and Design, is designed to entice high school students to think about architecture in general and studying it at UTA specifically, architecture assistant professor Rebecca Boles said. During the camp, students will have a chance to talk to current UTA architecture students and get their perspectives on
studying architecture, go on field trips to architecture firms and the Kimbell Art Museum and build designs of their own in the Architecture Building’s courtyard, Boles said. “The students start with real simple materials, which enable them to make structures really fast and gives them something real to draw from,” she said. “We’ve found students respond best to fast-paced work, with results they can see.” The students not only learn how to build structures, but also how to make the structures specific to a certain area. Students transform planks of wood into designs of such things as vines and trees in and around the building’s courtyard, fountain and walls. Skyline junior Carlos Romo said the camp gives students a chance to build with their hands something that blends
“People don’t really know what architects do, and the camp gives you good insight into what the field of architecture is like.” Jay Vichyastit
high school junior at the Episcopal School of Dallas
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Fine arts senior courtney Brown uses rocks as a part of her performance art, reinterpreting Native American traditions. She was one of seven people to receive the 2010 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award from the Dallas Museum of Art.
Fine arts senior speaks through award-winning art By Allie CoChrAn The Shorthorn staff
As the winner of the 2010 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund from the Dallas Museum of Art and the UTA Ideas in Art Award, Courtney Brown has distinguished herself as a gifted artist within the art community. At 22, Brown, a fine arts senior, carries as much talent as poise. Whether discussing art, civil rights, or environmental concerns, Brown does it with meaningfully constructed sentences, marrying words in a phrase as she would with paint on a
canvas or stones within a medicine wheel. Her sentence construction represents her ability to successfully communicate through her art. Brown utilizes the basis of a fourpoint medicine wheel, with a center and four compass points, as her medium. Brown’s art exploration began at an early age, driving her continuation of formal education. “I don’t think I would have graduated from high school if I didn’t have an art class to go to,” she said. Although having always been an art lover, it was not until between
ages 12 and 15 that Brown discovered how the medium could feed her spirit as an artist and a person. A family friend introduced Brown to the Native American rituals, ceremonies and oral traditions that became her subject of artistic dialogue. “I found this thing that fed me and drove me and explained things and interested me,” Brown said. Native American symbols “became [her] symbols for communicating,” she said. “We have different symbols we asart continues on page 3
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teChnology
UT System conference to be held entirely in virtual world Second Life offers new opportunities for students enrolled in distance education. By Ali Amir mustAnsir The Shorthorn senior staff
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Skyline High School senior Julio roman makes adjustments to his wood and plastic creation Monday in the Architecture Courtyard. He said he wants to integrate his piece into the site and show how wind blows through trees.
Students and faculty interested in the Second Life program have a chance to meet face to face tomorrow. Sort of. Second Life is a virtual world of
fully user-created content. Thursday, the system will host an all-online conference as a culmination of a year’s work. The conference will feature panel discussions on topics like working in a virtual world, preparation for graduate studies and managing a virtual identity. Tim Kring, creator of the TV series ‘Heroes’, will be the keynote speaker. Sarah Jones, the digital library service information architect and UTA campus lead for Second Life,
said Second Life is an additional venue for distance education that is different from WebCT and Adobe Connect. It gives people a sense that you are all together in one place, she said. “It’s a different kind of online group experience,” Jones said. Jones said architecture students built a Japanese teahouse in the courtyard between the Fine Arts Virtual continues on page 3