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March 29, 2005
“Wasted” campus green spaces to be filled with additional stone monuments
After significant deliberation, plans to move forward with the construction of several new gardens on campus will begin in May. The university plans to create 11 new garden areas, complete with constructed stone monuments to complement the open green areas on campus.
“After the enormous outpouring of support we got after the Blue Garden was finished, we thought it would be a good idea to make more,” said Lowell Bromander, VP of facilites services.
“We thought the campus was too dominated by the color green, with trees and grass everywhere, so we decided to spice it up with some new colors. All that space was just being wasted by people who wanted to sit around on the grass or play ecstatic Frisbee, or whatever that game they play is called.”
Plans include a 50-foot letter H to straddle the sidewalks directly north of Old Main, which will be surrounded by five thousand red roses and tulips.
According to preliminary plans for the structure, the H will have two torches, one on either of its peaks, which will burn 24 hours a day as a symbol of Hamline’s perseverance and neverending dedication to higher education.
The plans, stagnant for several months, were rekindled by a community organization known as People for the Equal Representation of Chromatics (PERC), who urged Hamline to make a resolution concerning the name of the “Blue Garden.”
A newsletter issued by PERC said: “We know that Hamline is dedicated to showing all parts of the chromatic scale, but we were disturbed by the fact that they focused on Blu [sic] for their first garden when there are so many other wonderful colors to be appreciated.”
Several other groups have also sent petitions to Hamline, urging them to include other colors in the gardens. The Coalition for the Advancement of Taupe (CAT), a group concerned with promoting neutral colors, also sent a petition to Hamline administrators. Another group called Fluorescent and Neon (FAN) is currently also working on a petition to see neon colors represented in campus gardens and buildings.
For this reason, each of the new gardens will have a different color scheme.
Other designs to be built starting this spring include:
A 20-foot-tall orange cube in the quad between the Heights buildings, which will be surrounded by poppies, a 10-foot-wide brown stump complemented by a surrounding circle of wheat grass in front of Sorin, and of course, the 50-foot H directly in front of Old Main.
Posted by msveum at March 29, 2005 01:04 PM
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