University of Portland - Log Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Last summer construction began on the long-awaited, auto-free, Portland State lVlalI in the Park Blocks adjacent to the University. The first revelation after the streets were ripped up was the acres of sand under the foot or two of top soil. A multi-million conglomerate built on a pile of sand. Really just an old river bank waiting for the Willamette River to claim it again. The next revelation was the subterranean stream running beneath the Park Blocks that is used to cool the buildings in the summer. Ah yes, how about a mill race flowing through the Park Blocks, laying on the grassy banks, catching trout and drinking wine between classes? But no, the City of Portland and the PSU Office of Facilities and Planning had a different idea. A big construction project, an economic shot in the arm, give the hard hats a job, pour a lot of concrete, give the Drake Construction Company a break. And after all, only concrete would fit with the concrete bastions cal led Portland State that have gradual ly replaced the time-honored structures and community on this- Portland's original site. First there was mud-acres of it. Then came the concrete. For PSU veterans of lVlay 1970 when the City's new riot squad was turned loose on the medical unit of the striking students in their first and hopefully last adventure in mindless brutality, the concrete geometry looked like a rat maze. Fifty percent more grass! cried J. Malcolm lVlclVlinn, PSU director of Facilities and Planning. Many couldn't believe it or in it. For others who valued the worn yet dignified and familiar old look of those Park Blocks the initial effect was shock and dismay. Too much was sacrificed, they said, and too little gained. Would the ancient and venerable trees, how hung with 22 electric lights and surrounded by concrete, survive? Then the pouring stopped and the muddy areas could be imagined filled with grass. No automobiles circled the blocks trailing poison gasses and burning rubber. On sunny days people were sitting on the newly installed benches. A bagpiper strides through amazing the chi ldren and dogs, frisbees flyg and no curbs bar the wheelchairs from passing. A large wooden play structure is erected much to the delight of the children in the PSU Child Care Center. Never mind the concrete tree stumps with their blinding lights, smaller bulbs can be put in. But still the automobiles nag: the hundreds of thousands of dollars expended on concrete while heeded student services are curtailed and academic programs are frozen, the Placement Center eliminated: Counseling Center pared, library hours curtailed, and teachers fired or asked to retire. Why not just block off the streets? Too easy, perhaps. In 1971 -72 Portland State got its mall. But the City of Portland announced through the person of Park Commissioner Francis lvancie that permits for use of the new mall would have to be obtained through his office. Trees come and trees go, the life of concrete is only a hundred yearsg but the power game goes on.

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