SNuFF plans ‘die-in’ Monday
to draw Measure 5 support
By Richard Burr
Of the Emerald
Some students will "die” Monday to draw
support for the nuclear freeze ballot measure
Members of Students for a Nuclear Free
Future (SNuFF) and other students will stage a
"die-in" at 12:25 p m in the EMU Courtyard, says
Adam Schultz, SNuFF member
Students will lie on the ground for a
three-minute period, pretending a nuclear bomb
has hit Eugene, and a narrator will describe the
theoretical damage the bomb could do during the
time period, he says.
The event is designed to draw support for
Ballot Measure 5. Schultz says An open forum
featuring four University professors, including
biology department head Aaron Novick, who
worked on the atom bomb, will be held at 12 45
p.m , he adds
SNuFF, an ASUO-funded program
concerned with the abolishment of nuclear arms,
also has another objective — educating the public
on nuclear power, Schultz says.
SNuFF averages about five new members at
each of its weekly meetings and now has about
35-45 members, Schultz says "From everyone
I've talked to, we're the fastest growing group on
campus."
Program meetings are run by consensus If
someone disagrees, a compromise is worked out.
members say
SNuFF also will hold a Convocation Week
Nov 8-12, Schultz says
The group plans events such as a panel to
discuss religious perspectives on nuclear
weapons, a discussion of a nuclear-free, Pacific
Ocean zone where the United States and France
have done testing and a film. "The Last Epide
mic "
The Union of Concerned Scientists set the
first convocation week around Veterans Day last
year because no veterans would remain after a
nuclear war. Schultz says The event is held on
150 other campuses, he adds
Because of the upcoming events. SNuFF is
postponing action to prevent military recruiters
from persuading students and having display
tables in the EMU, Schultz says The program
opposes allowing military recruiters on student
funded property, he says
The proposal is in the program's
education research committee and will be acted
on after group members finish with Convocation
Week, Schultz says
Clavichord’s ‘singing strings’
to highlight Saturday concert
By Melissa Grimes
Ot the Emerald
Joan Benson says she was
drawn to the study of the clavi
chord from a promising piano
career by the sound of the in
strument's "singing strings "
At the time, she was studying
with a master pianist in
Portugal "I kept hearing these
beautiful sounds in things l was
listening to, and, bit by bit it
began to dawn on me that those
sounds were created by the
clavichord "
Benson will present a clavi
chord concert Saturday at 8
p m in Choral Room 198 in the
School of Music She will play
pieces by Franz Josef Haydn
and Johann Sebastian Bach,
among others Admission for
the concert is $3.50 Proceeds
will go to a group of Tibetan
Buddhist lamas who reside in
Lane County
The clavichord, which was
invented in the 14th century,
took its place among other
keyboard instruments used in
the home at that time, such as
the harpsicord and various
sizes of organs. Benson says
The clavichord s keyboard
ranges in size from three to six
octaves The instrument looks
like a small piano, but its tone is
more like a soft, sensitive
harpsicord
‘‘The clavichord was a living
room instrument, a good in
strument to use in teaching mu
sic to children because its tone
is so soft," she says
Because of the clavichord's
delicate tone, Benson says she
carefully selects the places she
gives her concerts on the basis
of acoustics She says her
concerts typically are informal
and intimate and that she is
open to audience questions
Benson has taught studies in
early keyboard instruments at
the University and Stanford
University
At Stanford she first ' came
out of the closet" with her clavi
chord interest
Benson stresses that many
people thought her obsessive
interest in the clavichord would
come to no worthwhile end,
especially since she left her
piano career behind in order to
pursue it She was in the habit of
literally practicing her in
strument quietly in a closet.
One day a music professor
heard her, stuck his head in the
door, and said, “That's
wonderful." That eventually led
her to a teaching position
“I just happened to be in one
of the two places in the United
States where people were
particularly interested in the in
strument,” she says.
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