Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Students feel the bite Books only minor expense A check here, a check there does it ever stop? Students enrolled in architecture, interior design, apparel design and multi-equipment related majors often wonder. Every student pays for tuition, books and housing, but some curriculums involve additional expense. Consider the architects ' situation. Architecture students are generally required to produce three projects a semester. Projects generally run from $10 to $100 a piece. The average model runs about $30. Pre-design students also feel the bite of the added costs of materials and equipment. Pre-design classes require the student to experiment with water colors, markers, pencils, charcoal, rapidiograph pens, prisma colors and pastels. The initial cost of these supplies runs high. If the student finds that he only likes, or is good at only one or two different medias, he is stuck with supplies he has used only once or twice. Then he must invest to upgrade his final media choice. A special thanks to Alex Poorman, fifth-year student in interior architecture. Art students must also invest in a long list of supplies. The list might include: drawing boards, T-squares, triangles, pencils, leads, drawing paper, matte board, magic markers, tackle boxes, rapidiograph pen sets, colored pencils, drafting sets, portfolios, brushes, templates, tracing paper, acrylics, water colors and paints. The list, according to art students, is endless. The biggest investment is at the beginning of each semester when you have to buy all the basics, Valerie Mills, fifth-year student in interior design, said. But my parents have been real good about helping me pay for my stuff, she added. I bought an $11 adjustable triangle that I ' ve used twice, and some acrylic paints for my Design II class which I ' ve hardly used at all, Mills admitted. Students that have been in the program longer learn the ropes. When an instructor gives me a lot of supplies, I usually wait until they are needed. This way I know what I ' m going to need and how much I ' m going to use, Dan Engler, junior in interior architecture, said. Another field in the area of design which strains the pocketbook is apparel desig n. When I began here at K-State, they did not inform us as to the equipment and time involved, Nancy Shelley, senior in apparel design, said. It is unfortunate that students with limited finances don ' t have a chance to make it through the course, Shelly said. If money is a barrier, Shelley said, There ' s no way one can go on. In addition to the list of drawing and sketching supplies also required of architect and interior design students, apparel design majors must also supply themselves with the designers ' equipment (shoulder slope, hip curve, etc.), industrial scissors, dress forms, muslin, fabric, and an endless assortment of notions. Extra supplies required of architecture, art and design majors may help to further their education, nevertheless still drain the checkbook. Randy Dunn, Anne Schmitz

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They call him the man people love to hate. J.R. Ewing will go down in time with such villian greats as the Klingons, the Godfather and Raven in the Edge of Night. The only difference between these characters and the one and only J.R. is people love to hate him. Larry Hagman, who plays J.R., is quoted in People magazine as saying people come up to me and say ' I hate you so much ' , then they ask if they can kiss me. Now, it would seem that this should be all wrong. Fans should be throwing eggs and onions at the terrible villian who becomes nastier by each