Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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1 - 1 students create graphic designs as pro- H fessor Stanley Lechtzin looks on. H

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blEd ' lottew. Jhonetic ily|lti[ oewlhey 3fd gets will be a etotake Opposite: This Apple lie with voicebox will soon have a partner in the law school that will also serve as a word processor. Left Above: The ITS computer on the seventh floor of the Computer Activity Building is a great asset to students studying computer science. The special coinputers did not divert the office frotn its main purpose: to integrate disabled students into the mainstream of the student body. As proof of this goal, director Ryan point- ed to the campus ' 95% accessibility to wheelchairs. Many buildings, those with the blue wheelchair signs, were renovated by state money. A few trouble spots remained, according to Ryan. The ramp at Mitten Hall is too steep and gets very icy in bad weather, and the elevator in Curtis Hall breaks down a lot, she said. Much campus housing also was renovat- ed to provide greater access to the dis- abled. Bedrooms and bathrooms on three floors of the dorms and three apartments in Cooney were available, said Ryan. Section copy and layout by Michael Norris and Patrice M. Beahr 15 1

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« - -m - • The computer revolution at Temple extended to many areas, including the artist ' s studio. At the Tyler School of Art the computer joined the chis- el, paint brush, loom and potter ' s wheel as a creative design tool. The spring semester saw the Inauguartion of a new com- puter graphics studio as well as two new computer graphics courses. The courses were introductory level and were filled the first week of the semester. The studio, located in Tyler Hall, was equipped with 23 Apple lie units paid for by the university ' s Fund for Ex- cellence, (vioney from the Fund for Excellence is award- ed to Temple faculty and programs to provide qualitative support for the university by promoting teaching, research and scholarship, Tyler ' s award was for $82,000. The computers were capable of showing images in three dimensions and from various angles and rotations. They could generate patterns for a loom and digital informa- tion to control milling machines, and they could control a pen for use as a computer plotter. Also, the units were capable of reproducing the entire color spectrum. And what colors! Paula Jellinek, a Tyler computer instructor, described the colors as bright neon rainbows. The color capa- bilities of the computers far outshined any found on a video game machine. The computer could recreate end- less shades and texture designs. The only limit for stu- dents was their imagination. The potential for artists is extraordinary, but I don ' t believe any artist to date has fully realized this poten- tial, said Tyler dean George V. Bayliss. Professor Stanley Lechtzin, chairman of Tyler ' s faculty computer committee, organized the new program. He also received his fifth award from the National Endow- ment for the Arts in the fall semester. Lechtzin, who founded and was chairman of Tyler ' s highly regarded metals and jewelry program, slated the $15,000 grant to develop the new computer program at Tyler. He be- lieves computers will eventually be used in all Tyler courses. -Patrice M. Beahr l g HCR IDEfT HC5 —