| Tower in sight for USI
Courtesy of Holzman Moss Architecture This is an artist's rendering of how the new University Center would look after the first phase of a project to link the existing center and the old library at the University of Southern Indiana. The dominant feature after the two buildings are linked would be a conical tower with a masonry exterior. USI trustees heard an update of the architectural plans for the University Center on Thursday. .
Radically visual
Two years ago, Ricardo Viera embraced the idea of an exhibition of snapshots with the typical gusto of a Cuban Falstaff. The director/curator of Lehigh University's galleries and museum operation relished the notion of a show of everything from family pictures to experimental collages. He knew it would neon-light his belief that photography is a level field, that a photograph is a flat world.
Viera made just one major proposal to the exhibit's proponents, Donald Lokuta and Robert Yoskowitz, arts professors and owners of large collections of snapshots. Why not, he suggested, pair pictures by amateurs with pictures of similar subjects by renowned photographers represented in Lehigh's collection? Why not invite visitors to debate who takes, and what makes, a better photo?
Organized by Viera, Lokuta and Yoskowitz, ''Vernacular to the Masters'' is a visual, intellectual hornet's nest.
BEST Robotics Competition to be Held Saturday at MSCC
Seven area schools will participate Saturday in the Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology robotics competition at Mid-South Community College. Opening ceremonies will begin at 9 a.m. at the college's Workforce Technology Center on the North Campus. “The BEST robotics competition combines the best aspects of a sporting event, a chess game, and a science fair," says Dianne Langford, director of the Arkansas Delta Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Project at MSCC. “The competition allows our students - our future technology specialists - to participate in a fun event that we hope will motivate them to become catalysts for significant inventions of the 21st century." Schools registered to compete include West Memphis East Junior High School, West Memphis West Junior High School, West Memphis High School, West Memphis Christian, Benton High School, Marvell Middle School, and the Home School Association.
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