Professors receive Ersted Award
University’s most distinguished teaching honor
Charles Wilkinson
By Debbie Howlett
Ofth• Emtrmtd
A law school professor and an
assistant professor in the jour
nalism school have been cho
sen to receive the University's
most distinguished teaching
award in recognition of inspira
tion and demanding high stan
dards of their students
Duncan McDonald, from the
journalism school, and Charles
Wilkinson, from the law school
were named the recipients of
the 1982 Ersted Award for Dis
tinguished Teaching Each will
receive $1,000 cash prize from a
trust fund established in 1957 by
the late A J Ersted of Atherton,
California
Ersted wanted to award rela
tively young faculty members
who have demonstrated the
ability to induce students to
reason rather than memorize
“As I told the president. I’m
Nuclear issue related
to women, says panel
By Richard Burr
Of Emaratd
The nuclear weapons issue is interrelated to issues that
concern women, a Women’s Symposium panel said Thurs
day
"The nuclear arms issue is an umbrella issue which can
draw us all together," said Olive Bowers, a panel participant
and member of Citizen Action For Lasting Security.
The panel discussed "Women's Voice in the Nuclear
Arms Issue'' in the EMU Forum as part of the last day of events
of the Women's Symposium.
Whenever the nuclear weapons issue is discussed, men
do the talking, Bowers said Although some women are
involved in the issue, many are afraid of joining the movement
for fear of male domination, she added
During the 1960s' movements, women played an impor
tant but subservient role in the movement, Bowers said
Women finally "got fed up” with male domination of the
anti-war movement. Now, some are hesitant to join
movements again, she said
In Coos Bay, women are trying to place a nuclear freeze
initiative on the ballot, but are receiving negative reactions
from men, Bowers said Women are not being taken seriously
by men, who more readily sign the nuclear freeze petition if
the petitioner is male, she said
The author of the original nuclear freeze proposal was a
woman, Bowers added
Women have been “living a lie” for years since they gave
up their power to men, said Nancy Bidgood, a member of First
Step She climbed the fence at the Trident submarine base in
Banger, Washington, and was a protester at the Trojan
nuclear plant, she said
"Let's support each other and support men who are
trying to be a nurturer, who are trying to express their
feelings," Bidgood said
Women are pushing for a non-hierarchical, collective
decision-making model that handles decisions with respon
sibility and integrity, Bowers said
"We re teaching men this," she said
Women should never shed their roles as nurturers
because it is this perspective that will help women make the
difference in nuclear arms and peace issues, said Julie St
Clair, moderator of the panel discussion
Other factors also determine the amount of nuclear
weapons produced, Bidgood said
"It's the level of violence in our life that determines the
number of nuclear weapons,” she said
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surprised, flattered and then
honored,” McDonald said
Thursday afternoon.
"I realize now that I’m in some
pretty fast company,” McDon
ald added, "I hope I can keep
up.”
McDonald has been a Univer
sity faculty member since 1978.
Before then, McDonald and his
wife, Jane, published and edited
the West Lane News in Veneta.
He has also worked at several
mid-Western papers including
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Duncan McDonald is a gift
ed, natural teacher who treats
his students like colleagues, but
still demands much of them,"
said Everette Dennis, dean of
the journalism school.
Wilkinson, University faculty
member since 1975, has in
troduced courses on Indian Law
and land use law into the
school’s curriculum. He was
chosen by the student legal fra
ternity, Phi Delta Phi, as the
"Professor of the Year" in 1980
“Based on his teaching,
scholarship and success as a
litigator in the natural resources
area and Indian rights — Wilkin
son is perhaps the best known
member of the law faculty. His
presence here adds much to the
law school's reputation,” said
Derrick Bell, dean of the law
Duncan McDonald
school.
Wilkinson has served as an
attorney at San Francisco and
Phoenix law firms. He was also a
legal counselor for the Siletz
Tribe of Oregon
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