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Panelists Andrei Sinyavsky, Fruim Yurevich, Vladimir Voinovich and Leonard Schroeter share a
light moment during Wednesday's discussion of dissident literature and human rights
Soviet dissident writers
reveal political strife
By CHARLENE BELL
Of the Emerald
For Soviet writers, freedom of speech
frequently outweighs the value of one’s own
life.
It’s no accident that writers are in the
forefront of the Soviet Union human rights
movement, agreed participants of a panel
discussion on dissident literature and human
rights Wednesday night.
The discussion was part of a four-day
symposium on Soviet Literature and Human
Rights sponsored by the Russian and East
European studies department and the Oregon
Committee for the Humanities.
Panel members included Soviet satirical
writer Vladimir Voinovich, Soviet-emigre writer
Andrei Sinyavsky and wife Marianna Rose
navna, University political science Prof.
Joseph Fiszman, Russian Prof Fruim Yure
vich, Portland State University Prof. Ladis
Kristof, and Voinovich’s lawyer, Leonard
Schroeter.
The human rights quest in the Soviet
Union reached literary circles during the
period known as the’’Kruschev thaw,” when
Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev permitted a
softening of censorship.
"The intelligensia began to demand an
explanation for the terrors incurred under
Stalin’s persecution of Soviet artists. When the
government provided no explanations and no
guarantees of further abuses some began to
seek their own answers,” said Sinyavsky, a
concentration camp survivor.
When asked what incentive remains for
modern Soviet writers, Sinyavsky answered,
"The desire to write can be compared to love.
What incites a man to love a particular woman?
You can love from a distance — yet you will be
unhappy all your life and reproach yourself for
not expressing your love."
The panelists noted that westerners don’t
understand why the Soviet emigre does not
concern himself with the more "meaningful
social issues” like strikes and shortages.
"You must first have the right to speak,
then you can begin to address the other more
‘meaningful’ concerns,” Sinyavsky said.
However, Voinovich said the government
approved literature that exemplified Stalin’s
concept of "social realism” influences more
people than all the great Russian masters'
works combined.
"Yet now, government propaganda calls
for selfrsacrifice on one hand, and yet, on the
other hand, it calls for betrayal of friends, and
cowardice,” Voinovich said.
Takes job at USC
Architecture dean resigns
Robert Harris, dean of the
Unversity’s School of Architec
ture and Allied Arts for the last
decade, has announced his
resignation.
Harris, 45, accepted an offer
to lead the University of
Southern California’s architec
ture program in Los Angeles.
His appointment is effective
Aug. 1.
Harris joined the University
faculty as head of the architec
ture department in 1967 and
Thefts hit campus theater
The library isn’t the only cam
pus area plagued by theft.
The University Theatre also
has received its share of wallet
and purse thefts — and just
recently, tap shoes from its
upcoming production of
“Anything Goes," according to
theater director Grant McKer
nie
Theft has been a problem at
the theater all year, but the
recent upsurge has prompted
the student players association
“Mask and Buskin” to organize
volunteers to watch the back
stage areas during shows,
McKernie says.
Despite the groups' efforts, a
wallet was stolen during the
recent production of "Buried
Child.’’
The empty wallets and purses
often are found discarded —
one wallet even was found at
Lane Community College,
McKernie says.
Thefts also have occurred in
the Robinson Theatre
basement, where make-up,
costume, dressing rooms and
student lockers are located.
"We’ve had to institute a strict
policy for the cast and crew of
Anything Goes,' ” McKernie
says. "All belongings are kept in
one place That's made money
less available, so now it seems
clothing is the target.”
Two pairs of shoes were
taken during the show's Tues
day rehearsal.
was named dean in 1971.
University Pres. Paul Olum
called Harris' resignation "a
severe loss for us. He’s a very
good dean.”
During his long tenure as
dean, Harris worked to obtain
additional state funding from
the Legislature to maintain state
college and university buildings.
In particular, he pushed for
funding of a new building for the
school
The 1979 Legislature author
ized initial design work and
placed the addition at the top of
the 1981 higher education capi
tal construction priority list, but
the state's budget problems
forced the elimination of all
construction funds from the
budget.
Harris previously taught ar
chitecture at the University of
Texas at Austin for seven years.
While teaching there, Harris al
so was in private practice and
served as a consultant to the
city of Austin.
Harris graduated from Rice
University and holds a master's
degree from Princeton Univer
sity.
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