MANHATTAN, Kan. ?EUR??,,????'??+ Textbooks can be a great learning device, but nothing beats hands-on experience. Just ask the landscape architecture students from Kansas State University. On Sept. 5, three faculty and 53 KSU students took a field trip to visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial. Neil Dean, principal of Sasaki Associates, flew out from Watertown, Mass. to lecture at Kansas State about the construction of the project. Stephanie Rolley, KSU professor of landscape architecture, talked Dean into taking the five-hour bus ride to Oklahoma City so that students could literally get a feel for the site. ?EUR??,,????'??The students were able to see and touch the wall and walk through spaces they?EUR??,,????'???d heard about from Neil?EUR??,,????'???s design presentation,?EUR??,,????'?? explained Rolley. ?EUR??,,????'??The students really appreciated how they could learn about something while on campus and then go to the site, experience the space and ask questions from those involved in the project. Two different groups of KSU students attended the field trip: those undergraduates who were taking a materials and methods course, and those who were graduate students or finishing up their landscape architecture degrees. Hans Butzer and his wife, Torrey, won a design competition for the original design of the memorial and collaborated with Sasaki Associates to get it built. Rolley said the memorial has two distinct features. The first is a large reflecting pool that has only about one inch of water. The second main feature has a chair representing each of the victims. The cast metal chairs have lights with the victims?EUR??,,????'??? name etched in the base. ?EUR??,,????'??It really makes a poignant statement to be remembered that way,?EUR??,,????'?? Rolley observed.