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The Battalion
Tuesday, November 23,]
A New Design on Health Care
Student architects help plan
Chicago children's hospital
Tuesday,
By Geneen Pipher
Thu Battalion
T he designs of 17 Texas
A&M University architec
ture students for a chil
dren's hospital in Chicago were
displayed at the Langford Ar
chitecture Center Monday.
The students are scheduled
to fly to Chicago Dec. 1 to pre
sent their research and designs
to Northwestern University
Medical School hospital staff
members.
George Mann, project director
and endowed professor of health
facilities design, said although
their designs are not completely
finished, the Langford display
gave them a chance to show off
their work.
"We invited the grade school
kids who helped give us some of
our ideas, the people from Scott
& White and other people in the
community so they can see what
these kids have been doing all se
mester," Mann said.
Heather Robertson, a senior
environmental design major, said
the showing was the culmination
of a semester of long hours and
hard work.
"1 was really excited at the be
ginning of the semester and I still
am, but it is a big relief to be fin
ished with the whole thing,"
Robertson said. "We probably
worked at least 300 hours on this
project, and it is really exciting to
be able to show everyone what
we've accomplished."
Mann said the students have
been working all semester on de
signs for a 10-year master plan
for the Children's Memorial
Medical Center (CMMC), a pedi
atric teaching facility. The main
objective was to improve the
quality of the existing facility and
create a more healing environ
ment for children.
Jenny Cotner, a representative
for the College of Architecture,
said studies have found friendly
surroundings aid healing.
"The project will focus on
children and how to make it
more friendly toward children,"
Cotner said. "They are finding
more and more that people get
better faster in less sterile-look
ing facilities."
Ron Skaggs, chairman and
chief executive officer of HKS Ar
chitects, the firm that served as
adviser for the project, said stu
dents will provide the CMMC
with fresh new ideas their pro
fessional counterparts may not
have considered.
"I think that quite often peo
ple that are in a learning mode
aren't limited in their scope of
thinking like those who have
been practicing," Skaggs said.
"They can pursue ideas that no
one might have thought of. The
students have come up with
some intriguing ideas."
Chris Cope, a senior environ
mental design major, said stu
dents have a different perspec
tive than older, more estab
lished architects.
"You could look at us as kids
because everyone we dealt with
in Chicago was in their late 30s
and beyond," Cope said.
"When they are designing for
children, the older architects tend
to look at a building in a way an
adult would look at it. I think
having us and our ideas gives
them ideas they'd never thought
of in their lives."
Mann said the students partic
ipating in the project got a taste
of what it will be like to work in
the profession of architecture.
"The project was huge in
scope and 1 believe the students
got a lot out of it," he said.
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Corpus Christi, takes time between classes to do a close-up exami
nation of a miniature-scale model on display on the 4th floor of the
Langford Architecture Center.
"They found out what it was like
to travel to work on a project.
They were forced to be creative
and work with other people and
of course, they learned howto
deal with children's issues."
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Transfer students fight new Aggie ring policy
By Lisa Elliott
The Battalion
The new Aggie ring ordering
policy, which will go into effect
Jan. 1, 1994, has upset many trans
fer students.
The new policy, approved by
the Association of Former Stu
dents in October, will require
transfer students to complete 60
hours instead of 30 before they
can order their senior rings.
Danny Cox, a junior recre
ational parks and tourism sci
ences major, said he is trying to
put together a petition to present
to the association that would
stop the policy change.
Cox wrote a letter to The Bat
talion saying he was upset about
the change because it discriminat
ed against transfer students by
saying they didn't work hard
enough to receive their rings.
He said he has received many
phone-calls from transfer students
who support him since he wrote
the letter.
Cox said the new policy should
not affect presently enrolled transfer
students because many students
have planned their schedules in or
der to get their
rings as soon as
possible.
"It came as a
surprise to a lot
of people be
cause they plan
their schedules
accordingly,"
he said.
Cox said he
planned to get
his ring this
spring, but now he has to wait a
year. If he had known about the
"The more people that
squeal about this, the
more chance we have
of getting it changed."
- Brock Gibson,
junior construction
science major
A policy change would require
a vote from the Board of Directors
of the association, and they only
meet twice a year.
Brock Gibson, a junior construc
tion science major, said he has tried
to go through the
proper channels
to get the policy
changed. He said
the only way to
get noticed is to
write letters to
Randy Matson,
executive director
of the Association
of Former Stu
dents.
Gibson said
students need to write letters to
policy, Cox said he would have
taken enough classes to order his
ring earlier.
Cox said he called the ring of
fice and was told there was "noth
ing they could do about it."
the Board to let them know there
are a lot of upset people.
"The more people that squeal
about this, the more chance we have
of getting it changed," he said.
Gibson is a 40-year-old student
that returned to get his degree af
ter 16 years away from school
said he has worked hard enougli
to earn the A&M senior ring.
"One of my rewards to myself
was to be able to wear that ring,
now 1 won't be able to," he said.
Gibson said he is researching
the "grandfather clause" that says
any new policies must not
presently enrolled students,and
many similar court cases have
said omitting the grandfathei
clause is unconstitutional.
Gibson said the Board was
wrong to not publicize the vole
beforehand, and no one could
voice their opinions.
"It's not a fair game if they vol-
ed on it without people knowing
about it," he said.
Matson did not return
Battalion's calls, but he told Gib
son to try to get as many letters
sent to him as possible, so be
would have something to bring
to the Board at their next meeting
early next year.
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