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luring Gothic churches in France?
Ijnless you are like Dr. Vivian Paul you prob-
b ould not consider traveling to southern
Ft ince and measuring a cathedral’s foundations
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T: Jut Paul, architectural historian at Texas A&M
Ui iversity, did just that last summer, and without
asiistance. She wants to go to Barcelona, Spain,
' Narbonne, France, again next summer to
plete her measurements of French religious
ihitechture of the 13th and 14th centuries.
'‘It was difficult to measure the cathedral (in
■bonne), because there were always people in
it, ’ Paul said. “One time there was a wedding
going on and I had to measure something around
the aisle of the cathedral where the bride stood,"
she said.
MKothic architecture can be recognized by its
tajl, spired buildings and large windows that allow
lots of light to enter.
■Finding out which design principles were used
for building in the Middle Ages was one of Paul’s
research goals.
ffBuilding as high as they did then was a prob
lem, and flying buttresses and piers had to sup
port the large structures,’’ she said. One of the
tallest Gothic cathedrals was more than 15 stories
Jtefl and fell in after 12 years because it lacked
tructural support, Paul said.
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Dr. Vivian Paul, an architectural his
tory instructor at Texas A&M Univer
sity, spent her summer in Europe
studying medieval Gothic cathedrals.
The layout and the calculations of medieval
architecture are still unknown and Paul wants to
shed some light on construction principles of the
time.
“We have some evidence that architects then
used geometries and even some modular struc
tures,’’ Paul said.
Paul also assembled photographs of cathedrals
for one of her courses on great monuments. She
collected about 2,000 photos of cathedrals such as
Canterbury, Chartres, Saint Denis and the West
minster Abbey.
Of all the cathedrals she works with, the one in
Narbonne is her favorite.
Paul’s interest in southern France’s Gothic
cathedrals was sparked by her mentor at the Uni
versity of California at Berkley. “Jean Bony, a
French scholar on Gothic, really fascinated me.
He could make the buildings come alive,” she
said.
There are only a few architectural historians in
the United States. “We are a dying breed,” she
said.
Only in the past ten years has modem technolo
gy been applied to the study of medieval architec
ture, Paul said.
“Once we know the measurements (of the
cathedrals) we could put them through a compu
ter and find out whether or not there was a certain
design behind the structures.”
Paul, who teaches architectural history at Texas
A&M, said she wants to give her students a diffe
rent view of architecture.
“I choose my monuments to talk about social
and political history,” Paul said. In the buildings
one can recognize ideas and lifestyle of people at
the time, she said.
“I use those buildings that draw together as
many ideas of the time as possible,” she said.
College students learn to locate
countries in basic geography class
United Press International
BOULDER, Colo. — College students who do not
know the United States and Canada are two separate
countries are extreme cases, but a teacher said a
rudimentary geography course is a basic need.
The University of Colorado offered World and Re
gional Geography this semester after it was discovered
many students didn’t know where to find countries on a
map.
“Most are taking the course by choice rather than a
requirement because they seem to realize they need it, ”
said Hazel Morrow-Jones, a first year teacher at the
university.
She asked Wednesday: “Why should they feel Iran is
important to them if they don’t even know where it is?”
Morrow-Jones said there were 55 students in her
class, a special section of Introduction to Human Geog
raphy 199.
“It’s even more basic than the introductory course,”
said spokeswoman Mary Gleason.
Morrow-Jones said most high schools offered a social
studies course incorporating history and sociology but
containing limited emphasis on maps and other tradi
tional geography tools.
She said some students enter college with the
erroneous impressions that Africa is a country rather
than a continent and unaware of a border between the
U.S. and Canada.
Still others believe Berlin is on the border between
East and West Germany and do not realize Russia is only
one segment of the Soviet Union.
Student tells tale
of Russian trip
By TERRI COULSON
Battalion Reporter
One of the last places one might expect to hear “howdy” is Lening
rad, but when you get a group of Aggies over there, it is not only
possible, but probable.
A group of students, sponsored by the MSG Travel Committee, and
under the direction of Dr. Michal Barszap spent 28 days traveling in
Russia this summer.
Richard Stevens, a Texas A&M University student who took the
d Perry said)) tour > presented a slide show Wednesday night of the sights they saw
“ while there.
The tour began in New York City and concluded in Warsaw, Poland
with stops in Helsinki, Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev among other
Russian cities. The group covered approximately 8500 miles.
They saw many historical monuments including museums, cathed-
•gy situation® rals and the Red Square, which included Lenin’s tomb.
They waited in lines for over 1 1/2 hours to get into the tomb,
as frequentlfj > Stevens said. Once inside, you see a “glass case with lights shining on
the library» I it, and what some people say is his body inside, or what others say is a
wax figure of him. It was very eerie,” he said,
it students 1® They also went to Siberia where they saw Lake Baikal, the deepest
Fessors. lake in the world. The lake holds more water than the Great Lakes
ction in teraiis combined, Stevens said. “There are more than 30 rivers going into it
ourses that * with only one coming out.
(of students)® “Russian art is really nice,” Stevens said. They visited one museum
and the kinds? which had the largest collection of gold jewelry in the world, Stevens
this makes In said- There are a lot of gilded things over there.
There are also a lot of beautiful mosaics and tile work and the wood
carvings are beautiful, Stevens said.
The A&M Russian Club is sponsoring another tour to the Soviet
Union in January of next year. The total cost for the 15 day trip from
New York is $1249.
“Students get a lot of breaks while traveling, Stevens said. “And
even if you don’t have the money there are loans you can get. ”
“It might take you 10 years to pay it off,” Stevens said, “but it would
be worth it.”
Carter in opposition
to lending rate hike
United Press International
NEW YORK — Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., one of the nation’s
largest banks, Wednesday raised its prime lending rate to 14Vi percent
from 14 percent despite President Carter’s claim that rates were too
high already.
Published reports said the higher prime rate was inevitable despite
pressure from President Carter and Treasury Secretary G. William
Miller to hold the line or reduce.
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