Title | Houstonian, 1976 |
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Date | 1976 |
Description | This edition of the Houstonian, published by the students of the university in 1976, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston. |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Location | LD2281.H745 H6 v. 42 1976 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1158762~S11 |
Digital Collection | Houstonian Yearbook Collection |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/yearb |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | In Copyright |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Issues |
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File Name | yearb_1976_102.jpg |
Transcript | Issue/Save the Trees Houston's tropic clime makes UH one of a scant number of Texan campuses with an abundance of green things growing, and such good fortune has made UHers particularly possessive of their leafy friends. Despite a maintenance fleet of gardeners who prune daily and mow sem- iweekly, students aren't entirely assured that the decision-makers in the Ezekiel Cullen Building have the best interests of the UH landscape at heart. Accordingly, students raised their seldom clenched fists in protest when, in early 1975, a long and high-standing tree yielded to the $12,000 Tower of Cheyenne, an addition to UH's col lection of rusted metal sculptures. Such noisemaking seemed to pay off in the fall when the campus erupted in construction at three separate sites. Two weeks of planning and $4,350 saved a 27-year-old magnolia from biting the dust at the library site. At other hard hat areas, workers fitted each tree with a safety playpen before doing their digging. The year didn't end without another fatality, though, as the 70-year-old oak in Fine Arts' courtyard called it quits to all the ruckus going on around it. Its replacement was a younger oak, shipped and planted at a cost of close to $1,000. uh Issues 115 |