Welcome, ye shades! Ye bowery thickets hail! Ye lofty Pines! Ye venerable Oaks! Ye Ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep! Delicious is your shelter to the soul.
James Thomson,'Seasons. Summer'
By Jayne Spencer
Winter weather getting you down? Grey, soupy, Hoosier season that never ends? Well, Home Pages anticipated the winter doldrums would catch up with us, so last semester we asked our readers to nominate their favorite campus trees and green spaces.
We've taken some of those nominations, photographed them and come up with a color centerfold (available in print in today's paper). A sampling of the poster photos and the natural beauty evident on IU campuses throughout the state can be found at this Web site:
When you get your copy of the poster, tape ito your grey file cabinet and watch for news from Punxsutawney, Pa., Monday (Feb. 2). That's the day Punxsutawney Phil, the legendary ground hog, predicts the advent of spring. The folks at Punxsutawney will be traveling to Gobbler's Knob to check out Phil and you can keep up with events by going to this Web site:
Whether you trust Phil or not, winter WILL end.
And on a related but more serious note, you can go to the Web site at the end of this story to learn more about the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program, which has documented management innovations in a comprehensive new book called Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century. David Orr, a professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College, wrote the forward to the book and was on the IUB campus last week for a Campus Environmental Stewardship Kick-off.