Committee to study various fence plans

By Laura Pelner
Campus Editor

The University Architecture Landscape Planning Committee is now accepting volunteers who want to be part of the Advisory Committee that will study the issues surrounding the Class of 1939 water sculpture and the Loeb Fountain.

Graham Cooks, a chemistry professor and member of the Architecture Landscape Planning Committee, said the Advisory Committee will make a report with advice and a solution to the issues of safety and University liability regarding the fountains.

The deadline to apply is Thursday night and Cooks said he hopes to have the committee picked by Friday evening. "I will contact people on Friday night with the decision of the appointing committee," he said.

Cooks will accept applications via e-mail at cooks@purdue.edu. He said that those who apply should include information about themselves, their background and why they want to be a part of the group.

The 18-member Advisory Committee will include administration, staff, faculty, students, alumni and townspeople.

Cooks said the committee will probably recommend two plans - a short term one so the fountains could be turned on this summer and a long term one to prevent a situation like this from happening in the future.

"The committee will elect its own chair and run its own business," said Cooks.

He said those on the committee will have a lot of work to do. "This will be a working committee. I would say people need to be willing to put in four or five hours a week," he said.

A lot of the meetings will take place this summer, so committee members will need to be in the area for the next few months.

The members of the Advisory Committee will create a solution based on their discussions. Cooks said members of the Architecture Landscape Planning Committee are currently reading the comments on Purdue's Web site. "There was some 7,000 people that wrote comments," said Cooks. "There's a lot of interest and good sensible suggestions."

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