University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 17, 1991
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Students to study Italian villas
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
Ten students are planning to take a brief, but educational, trip to Italy this summer to enrich their knowl- ment through a KU summer program.
The program, offered through the School of Architecture and Urban Design, is a four-week course in June. Students will gain practical knowledge in the reconstruction of villas in rural Italy.
Chip Houser, who went last year as a student and who will be the program's teaching assistant this summer, said the students rehabilitated Tuscan farmhouses that were constructed using very old techniques.
They will work at the Castello di Spannocchia, an area described by the school's literature as containing crumbling, rough-stone buildings in overgrown fields, and wooded hillsides with a nearby castle.
"Through the work the students do and the short trips they take, they get an understanding about how almost
"It combines the tourist view of things with a deep sense of understanding how things really work in this part of the world."
all buildings in Italy are constructed." Houser said.
Aspects of the program include heavy work, such as knocking down and reconstructing retaining walls, and creating new designs for existing structures and sketched studies of local architecture.
This summer students will work on a free-staining retaining wall used to terrace the landscape to make it agriculturally usable.
Houser said Italy provided a clear and consistent architectural heritage that had developed for more than thousands of years.
"It's a fantastic way to learn basic architectural concepts" he said.
But the students learn more than just architecture.
"It's like coming to America and being dropped in the middle of life, but we are here when time we're there we'll probably never see a single tourist."
Harris Stone, professor of architecture and urban design who was the coordinator for last year's program, said his program was popular with students.
ordget Bogan, Rolla, Mo., senior,
said she originally had planned to
take part in the program last summer.
She decided to work and go this summer.
"I'm going to learn about construction of older Italian buildings and to learn about Italian architecture and culture," she said.
This year, students in the program are taking an introductory Italian course.
Maria Angelietti, the teaching assistant for the Italian class, said she thought the students would travel to teaching Italian before they went overseas.
"We are their guests," she said. "We should make an effort to learn some of their language. Knowing just how to speak will make you can make such a difference."
Houser said the program cost students $2,500 to $3,000.
Ozone being depleted faster than predicted
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The loss of the earth's protective ozone layer is probably even worse than shown in recent satellite observations, a leading researcher told Congress.
F. Sherwood Rowland, co-author of the 1974 study that disclosed that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were damaging the ozone layer, said the total wintertime loss over Canada and the northern United States since 1969 could be estimated at about 10 percent.
Rowland, a chemistry professor at the University of California at Irvine, told the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space that ozone destruction began before 1970 that the satellite measurements began.
The EPA said the result could be an additional 200,000 deaths from skin cancer in the United States in the next 50 years.
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