Interview - Victor Ermoli, ID Dept Chair
Below is a Summary of the interview I conducted with Victor Ermoli, head of the Industrial Design Department...
The expectation is for tables to be completely empty, all trash off the floor; absolute clean – it is supposed to be common sense;
“I hate when you have to treat people like monkeys…Maybe its not a problem of not knowing what clean means; it’s a problem of that they are lazy.”
He then gave me the Model Shop safety exam with questions related to cleanliness, as well as two different pages with safety guidelines that are given to the students each quarter “So, what’s the misunderstanding?”
-Is there an area for material storage?
Yes, no, and maybe. Faculty storage is in room 132 or 134, next to the Special Topics room. Storage there could be optimized; the area is used for faculty and model shop storage, and is cleaned once a year.
-Are there areas for student storage?
The Bench room racks and shelves, and assigned lockers are for students. Stuff outside of these areas shouldn’t be there.
-Is there a budget for additional storage?
You must make any requests within 11 days (by Feb 21st) for the year beginning in June.
We simply need to meet with him with cost and purpose information to propose changes; no forms are needed.
-What are the biggest problems you currently see in the building?
Students don’t clean their space. Students don’t respect their space.
For example, students spray glue on the tables, drip epoxy on the bench room tables and leaving the bulge of glue there so no one can use that space. Most of the lockers have the hinge broken or the door dented. People cut on the tables in the bench room or studio.
People write with markers on the bench room tables instead of using paper – “That tells me you don’t care; you don’t have a respect for the space.”
-Anything else you want to tell us?
“Sure, I don’t think the students use the opportunities that they have around here. For instance, I got I don’t know how many tons of carpet donated to the department and the faculty did a sample of how you might creatively use these things, and I talked with the grad students and they made this kind of couch-round-cool-thing. There are still 20-30 boxes of carpet; it’s a sound dampening device and we all complain about sound. We all complain about walking on the concrete floor hurts my knees and feet. You can weave it; you can glue it; you can tape it; do whatever you want.”
2/11/2005
3 Comments:
did you steal this picture?
no, Victor, it's available to anyone searching with your name on Google (but, yes, it's from Core77) :)
I'm repurposing it - now, someone who supports what you do is using it...
And, I would be happy to replace it with another since you asked.
Ooops ...Ta da!
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