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by |. Maclean

So; this is the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, in all
its splendor, grandeur and historical, white, clean wiAdewless walls.
Being a first-year Foundation student, | was more than impressed
when | first walked through these halls. Such a prestigious ine
stitute, with a varied reputation all‘across Canada, and even
stretching to South Africa; :where only one out of every two
students who apply get accepted, even though newspapers refer to

this place as a playground for the rich. ¥

After reading and hearing all this | was still in awe
(1 think it was the white walls). But’ this state of mind
wasn't to last long.

It took only eight brief weeks to reveal that the curriculum
needed radical readjustment; eight short weeks and | had run
through my Colour class and my Ideas and Concepts class. I! was
just beginning to remember names and faces, when suddenly | was
shot into another class with strange faces and new instructors «
(I'm still not sure whether it was to my dismay or relief!).

But this wasn't the problem -- the fact:that | had to go
through all that about remembering names, etc. No; it was the fact
that | was just beginning to comprehend the idea of primary and
secondary tones, etc., in Colour, and | had just started to con-
stder the notion of Art (in Ideas and Concepts), when it was, all
of a sudden -- over! Not fated to end here, this approach was
carried over into the second eight-week section of our first
semester.

It wasn't so much the faet of our 3-D ckss being over before
we started that particularly bothered me; but rather the idea of
First Year Drawing being covered in a fleeting eight weeks!
Perhaps we were expected to arrive at this school with the
necessary background in drawing so that the instructors would-
n't have to worry about teaching us. Perhaps, even more absurdly,
we were expected tomaster drawing in only sixteen classes --
how silly!

With drawing being perhaps the most fundamental element of
‘Art and Design', the administration would do weil to take this
into account and give us a proper drawing class. With our edu~=