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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1982)
t—£JT1U beer garden Wednesday Nov. 17 4-7 PM Dining Room Cup of Beer 75* Large 32oz Cup $1.50 Pitchers $2.50 Alternate Beverage available DIM SIM Every Sunday 11 a m. - 3 p.m. Today for lunch: Pork Chow Mein and Fried Mushrooms Each dish individually prepared *2 10 Just one of several combinations and prices CHINA BLUE Restaurant 879 E. 13th • 343-2832 Try us for dinner, too. MARKETING & SALES SEMINAR with ANHEUSER BUSCH Wednesday, November 17 7 p.m. 150 Geology Free admission sponsored by Marketing Association '\GfcNE P/ A011 67 Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat., • 7:45-3:15 Tues., Thurs. • 10:15-5:45 $96.00 A MONTH EXTRA INCOME Become a plasma donor It’s easy, safe and medically supervised. Faculty given Fulbrights By Betty Higgenbottom Of the Emerald Seven University professors have been awarded Fulbright fellowships for research and teaching abroad during the 1982-83 academic year. The recipients are Ralph Salisbury, Frederick Newberry, John Haislip and Barbara and Christer Mossberg of the English department; Larry Irvin of special education and Allan Kays of geology Salisbury, who is part Cherokee Indian and has been published in an anthology of contem porary Native American writers, will be teaching at the University of Frankfurt in Germany during spring term He will then travel to the University of Copenhagen in Denmark where he has been invited as a guest lecturer Newberry will go to the Georgian Republic in the Soviet Union to teach at the University of Tbilisi in January 1983. But because of tight security in the Soviet Union and the fact that his trip was arranged through Moscow, his hosts in Tbilisi don't know he is coming While Newberry is preparing to teach American literature, he may end up teaching "whatever they want me to teach,” he says. Haislip will be teaching classes in contem porary poetry at the University of Tubingen in Germany in a faculty exchange program Profes sor Hans Brochers will teach at the University spring term Irvin and Kays have already left for their respective destinations of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Barbara and Christer Mossberg will spend the year as joint occupants of the Bicentennial Photo by Bob Baker English professor Ralph Salisbury is among seven University professors awarded Fulbright fellow ships. Chair for American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland About 600 Fulbright fellowships were awarded this year. Prof has Georgia on his mind By Betty Higgenbottom Of the Emerald English professor Frederick Newberry says the approval of his Fulbright grant to teach in the Soviet Union is "one of the mysteries of the Soviet bu reaucratic system Newberry, who will travel to the Soviet republic of Georgia in late January, was among the ten out of 44 applicants approved by Moscow "I have no idea of the criteria I was judged on or how they went about screening me,” Newberry says His first and only choice of locations was the State Univer sity of Tbilisi in the Georgian Republic Because Georgians live in the economic and cultural center of the country they are "the most hostile to the Soviet government and the only ones who can get away with it," Newberry says Literature professors aren't i--— ! FREE S INCENSE {chopsticks ! & {PIPE SCREEN with this coupon ono por customnr Photo by David Kao English assistant professor Frederick Newberry was granted a Fulbright fellowship to teach in Soviet Georgia next year normally selected to go to the Soviet Union, so Newberry con siders himself fortunate He is preparing to teach courses in American literature and writers, but because Soviets are so cur ious about the lifestyles and people in the United States, he may find himself teaching something entirely different People in the Soviet Union think about literature and au thors much differently than do people in the United States. Newberry says "The books and writers that they read, love and quote are the ones we study here in school," he says Several months ago New berry attended an orientation in Washington, DC, where he was "coached on how to act. what to say. and how to answer questions about the Reagan administration Newberry says that many ot the academicians telt insulted at being propagan dized in this manner, but un derstood It was a necessary measure Once at the University ot Tbilisi, Newberry will be living in a dormitory built especially for professors His family will not be accompanying him. apparently the situation in Russia is much better for singles or people traveling alone Newberry is admittedly a little scared but thinks ot the trip as an adventure "It's not everyday that one gets to travel to the USSR he says Lecture discusses war University history professor Allan Winkler will discuss '20th Century America and the Impact o» War'* at 8 p m Thursday at the Eugene Conference Center Winkler graduated rnagna cum laude from Harvard University and earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia Univer sity and Yale University, respectively In the 1978-79 academic year he taught at Helsinki University in Finland as Bicentennial Professor of American Studies The lecture is part of the Forum Lecture Series, sponsored by the Committee tor the Arts and the Humanities
