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Show 336 FINE ARTS Barracks soon to be vacant Concerned primarily with turning out professionals .n Music, Dance, Architecture, Theatre and Art, the College of Fine Arts does not cater to set ideas of creativity, and practices hard working dedication to continuous pursuit of optmum performance in each discipline. Arts are often characterized as "Rich Men's Subjects" because one invests a great deal in courses The demand, however, is not for the student to be wealthy, but for great enough involvement in his discipline to make sacrifices for it. Arts require continuous attention-learning cannot and does not stop when the class hour ends. Faculty and students in this college tend to be critical of campus atmosphere. This attitude is probably due more to diligence than to antipathy. That is, criticism does not center around defects of the state, but appreciation of assets outside of it. For example, most of the college wanted an eminent architect to design the new Fine Arts Center-a work of art to house working arts- and were disgruntled when the administration accepted plans "designed from outside in" submitted by a local firm. The College of Fine Arts attracts many out-of-state students and a large percentage of native nonconformists. These persons combine with a departmental devotion to original thinking to account for maverick attitudes. Getting involved in the subject is vital to fine arts, and mutual involvement often leads to rare closeness between students and faculty, but a certain egoism sometimes contributes to very poor relationships between class and lecturer. Professors are the very expression of departmental dedication. Although this has been called a head-in-sand attitude (as in the recent Jones case), it has proven effective in keeping standards high and promoting growth. The increasing importance of the college became evident early in 1969, when concrete foundations were planted in a level plot of ground south of Marriot Library. Diligent cultivation produced an uprising of brick walls, and the growth flourished. By April 1970 the Fine Arts Center had sprouted roofs, windows and doors. The departments of Architecture and Art left whitewashed shacks for modern offices. The four buildings of the Center contain the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and a speech-hearing clinic with special sound chambers in addition to much-needed class and activity rooms for the college. If one wishes to be an individual, the College of Fine Arts is his bag, because success or failure depends almost wholly on personal ability to achieve and produce. Edward D. Maryon-Dea , 7 |