Rice University - Campanile Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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The university valves and gages a steadily flowing pattern, like a hill of dirt directing incoming and outgoing ants. The university gates open on Houston at its main street.

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N i l E i ll Q Houston piles pattern upon pattern complexly combining systems into a now corroborating now conflicting mixture, The ant hills, bee hives, are all tossed together and the patterns shift and cross and overlap each other sometimes at a bank vault with cutting torch or in school board session. The ant system is centered on its hill, the bees on their hive, So the patterns of the city are many centered. l 'Eu ll iii ,,, .,,il i I' l , Wi i Ei l TFT i, jill' , i i i i lvl if ii i llf' iw, VT

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Juxtaposed and overlapping systems breed contradictions and Houston is livid with paradox and dilemma. People enter the stillness of the university to learn their frantic place in the patterns outside, being blind to the totality until they step back into the anti-Houston on campus. The paradoxical step out of the pattern is the step toward knowledge of the pattern