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Show university Journal A A" BACK PACE EDITOR I Thursday, December 1,2005 i L J Abby Palmer, 586-199- 2 ace Honors ret By VALE WHITE vwhite ri r 1 suujournal.com In the mens room on the main floor near the elevator in the Science Center is a simple looking plaque on the tile wall above a bookshelf In proud script it pioclaims. The Burgoyneon Shelf. Dedicated to Dr. Paul Burgoyne for his undying efforts in procuring a resUng place for our books while we occupy the thrones herein The plaque honors Paul Burgoyne, professor emeritus of biology and former biology chair at SUU. Duiing the construction of the Science Center in the early 1990s, Burgoyne was a member of the building committee in charge of approving plans for the building. Burgoyne said he was looking at the plans and noticed something missing. I realized that there was not a place for students to put their books when they went to the bathroom, he said. Where M were they supposed to put them? On the floor? Buigoyne said he made several efforts to get the plans changed to include the shelves, but nothing changed until he became I I Nothing was done until I raised a ruckus, he said. I think they finally put them in just "Out I think it is a monument to the relationship we have between our faculty and to shut me up When the Science Center was completed in 1993, students and he that unknown class took Bmgoyne's efforts to heart, he said. One day in class they announced they wanted to show him something. extremely vocal. explained to them about the shelves, said Evidently guess they appreciated what I did because at the beginning of class they all took me down to the restroom, lie said. Buigoyne said the class paid lor the plaque and mounted it in the mens faculty moved into the room. new building. Burgoyne Burgoyne retired from said he mentioned to at SUU in 1996 D. Bennion teaching an upper division class The plaque put on the trie that he had woiked wall still hangs in his hard to get shelves put in the restrooms memory. for the students to have a place for their Burgoyne said he mentioned the plaque to President Steven D. Bennion at a faculty backpacks and books. I don't remember w hat class it dinner shortly after he retired because he was, but students." Steven wanted Bennion to know the story behind the dedication. Bennion said he thought it was humorous but a fine tribute to Buigoyne. Yeah its funny, he said But I think it is a monument to the relationship we have between our faculty and students The plaque has escaped the attention of many at SUU. Dale Bnnkerhofr, manager of Construction Services, has been working at the University 32 years and said he has never seen the plaque. I have been here since 1973 and this is the first I've heard of it, he said with a chuckle. Dean ODriscoll said he hadnt seen the plaque either, but echoed what Bennion said about the univeisity. That is the kind of place we have here at SUU, he said. Students and faculty get involved with each other and that is All the shelves in the Science one of the reasons we have such a great Centers restrooms were place to learn. put up in honor of Paul Burgoyne. Writer contemplates moving to get away from mild winter j d r t - C. At a time in life when many of my contemporaries are thinking about moving south to escape the winter, I am thinking of moving north to escape the winter Not just any winter, but the winter experienced in the Middle Atlantic states. It is usually referred to as a mild" winter, but I think of it more as a wimp winter; a half baked winter; a t . rainy, gray, Here in the A can you imagine long underwear what that leels like against your skin? Where you have to strap crampons onto your shoes to get the mail and wrap a scarf across your nose to get wood for the fire. I want a down jacket and a fleece jacket and a squall jacket, and an assortment of soft, Menno wool hats that match. want to live where the house smells like fresh Balsam and everybody drinks hot cocoa and plays board games by the fire. I want to put my fancy shoes in storage and wear Wellies and duck shoes and 1 winter. we brace for the occasional big snowstorm, closing schools and canceling events and driving badly in anticipation of the storm. But most of the time, the storm lace-uwaterproof boots that defy never show's, and we are stuck with all slush. I want boot socks this extra toilet paper and bread I w ant Fair Isle sweaters, and Alpine I want to move north, to sweaters and cashmere Maine or Wisconsin, where sweaters and cable knit winter is winter and there is no and cardigan equivocation. I mean, I went and turtleneck WINTER from November to March last and a collection of year wearing a jean jacket, for corduroys to match. I goodness sake. want to wear flannel Clothes are the reason I want nightgowns in Tartan plaids to move. and slippers lined with I dont want to livein aregion shearling and sleep under a where you can never really down comforter as thick as tell when to abandon your the blanket of snow outside transition clotliing for your my kitchen window. w'inter clothing. I want there If you tried anything like to be no mistaking the fact this during a mild that it is dead, cold winter. SUSAN REIMER winter, youd burst You get to W'ear really cool into flames unless you turned stuff. on the air conditioning. If you cant already tell, the L.L. Bean My husband has been to Russia in and the Lands End and the Woolnch the winter and he says even the folks who live in the northern-mos- t catalogs have begun arriving in my tip of mailbox, and it is clear to me that people Minnesota are just playing at winter by who live where winter means business comparison. He said I wouldnt last 10 have a much wider range of clotliing minutes anyw'here north of the Mason-Dixooptions than those of us wdio Eve where Line. you might find yourself still mowing Even upstate New Yoik would defeat the grass at Christmas. you, he said, and he knows me pretty I want to live where you need those well. kinds of clothes. So I guess I will have to continue to I want to live you can ice skate daydream my winter w'onderbnd. on the pond in your back yard. Where If it ever arrives, it will arrive in my ski out your you can mailbox, in a catalog. back door Where you can sit by the fire draped in a fleece throw Where even Susan Reimcr is a writer for the the dog needs to buy a coat Baltimore Sun. This column first ran in I want to live where you can wear silk the Baltimore Sun. p t .0 3r V s V. I 1 :) V 4 . v ' . w Mid-Atlant- PHOTO COURTESY OF WASHINGTON POSTL n A TIMES snowman inflatable snow globe by Gemmy Industries is shown. The holiday inflatable snow globes are a ppular decoration. Now inflatable groupies are about the latest innovation getting pumped eight-fosnow globes. A ot cross-countr- MDW y Inflatable decorations festive, jolly By JURA KONCIUS THE WASHINGTON POST The holiday inflatable blew onto American front yards about five years ago, and now no neighborhood can be truly festive without a towering Rudolph or Frosty or Caroling Pooh. This inflatable year, groupies, who now have a collectors club, are getung pumped about the latest innovation: eight-foo- t snow-globe- featuring Santa or Snoopy smiling amidst a swirling storm of Styrofoam snow beads. National retailers such as Linens n Things, and Costco are pushing these snow globes on steroids as the yard art must-havfor Christmas 2005. Electric fans keep the globe upright and the snow swirling, while interior lights provide an eerie nighttime glow. Inflatables have been for extremely popular the last few years, said a Wal-Mar- t, e A lit" i" J spokeswoman for Lowe's. The inflatable snow globe is the most popular style this year, and since we put it out on Oct 1, people have been excited to get it off our shelves. We expect to sell out. Inflatables are particulaily big in Florida, where holiday revelers must make without hope inflatables wants lem ember Christmas in their grandmothers house and all those collections of snow globes, Jcnner says. The inflatable fad has spawned a collectors club in Muskogee, Okla. Members can go to ai iblou nclub com to buy or sell various Everybody http-www- snow. "They have that However, Gemmy models, find out they appear on and how' nostalgic feel." Sharlene Jenner rep and porches throughout the land, wherever yaid-ar- t enthusiasts like to make a major seasonal statement. whether neighbors think its tasteful or not. They have that nostalgic feel, said Sharlene marketing Gemmy Dallas. Jenner, for manager Industnes in The firm spent years developing the snow-filled enter contests to r i clean them, post photos and to win rare models such as the foot Nativity snow Club founder Jason Jones, 29, ovv ns hundreds, w hieh he displays in front of his home all year, from the Super Bowl through Christmas The great tiring about the club is that people post wheie to buy the hard ones, Jones said d In Grand Prairie, ... Texas, UjtA theme park called Praine Airblown Woild Lights was scheduled to open Thanksgiving evening 700 inflatables holiday a on a displayed route glitter T; V three-mil- i i I - e I hundreds of thousands lighs. according to http w ww prairiel ights org But wait, theres more' Word just reached us an inflatable villa, an installation designed Venezuela born architect Luis Pons moored in Miami 1 i- . , a f" irv,, At V I, r AAi-'A r ' hi A. .1 Sr? ' to Wednesday Saturday. The model was designed by Pons in response to inspired by the excesses of the Miami real estate columns and capitals. No w'ord whether it has an inflatable snow globe resting atop one ol its columns. L v T) - Beach culture meaning inflated architecture, such as pseudo Palladian McMansions with 1 T A Ai ( AS A i Aa-ii- A . fi' h A a Vf --1 it i' i? i if A C : Ml ft L S'M1 nV" J. 0 V 5 AftVii Jk 4 "ft . v.! MARC c -- i."' 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