Photo by Djvt Km
An exhibit of oriental costumes will grace the Univer
sity's art museum until Dec. 18.
East meets West at museum
with Ch'ing dynasty garments
By Scott Sunday
Of thr Emerald
“Decoding Dragons" is an appropriate title for the new
exhibit of oriental costumes at the University's art museum.
The creative Ch'ing Dynasty garments, with detailed
embroidery, demonstrate that their makers were fond of
elaborate designs.
The museum houses about 130 oriental costumes and
textiles, two-thirds of which were received from the Ger
trude Bass Warner collection in memory of her husband,
Murray Warner. Records are kept on the collection and are
available to those interested in doing research.
About 100 oriental costumes are on display in the
museum's lobby and main floor changing galleries, and the
rest can be seen upstairs in the main Chinese gallery.
The Warner collection was donated on condition that a
museum be built to house it. Financed with private dona
tions from people throughout the state, the museum open
ed in 1933 with a display from this original collection.
Since then, many garments and textiles have been add
ed through more donations.
"This is all ours. . a lot of people don't know we have
this kind of quality in our collections," says Barbara Zent
ner, museum registrar. Gertrude Warner believed local art
enthusiasts needed to be more informed about the Orien
tal people and their art according to Zentner.
Because the exhibit has met with enthusiasm from peo
ple all over Oregon, its display period has been extended to
Dec. 18. Posters concerning the exhibit are available for $5,
and catalogs can be purchased for $25. The catalog was
written by John Vollmer, associate curator of textiles at the
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, who visited the Univer
sity's art museum in 1981.
“This will let the world know we are here," Zentner
says of the catalog.
Besides the museum’s exhibit, the Main Library is
displaying books on Chinese textiles from the Warner rare
book collection in the first-floor lobby.
Also, the Museum of Natural History is showing items
'This is all ours. . .a lot of people
don't know we have this kind of quali
ty in our collections,'
— Barbara Zentner
from its East Asian collections, and the Lane County
Museum has Chinese furnishings from the old Osburn
Hotel on display.
On display in the art museum's Oregon Gallery are
photographs by Craig Law, a photography professor at
Utah State University. Law's exhibit runs through October.
He will present a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct.
28 in 107 Lawrence.
The art museum is open from noon till 5 p.m.,
Wednesdays through Sundays, except holidays, with tours
on Sundays at 2 p.m. It is free to the public. For more infor
mation, call the museum at 686-3027.
Prison system 'mtantihzes' its adult inmates
By Pam Cline
Of the Emerald
"From the very beginning prisons didn't
work, and we've spent a lot of time trying to
find theories to explain why," said Kathryn
Watterson Burkhart to an audience in the
EMU Forum room Wednesday. Burkhart is
the author of "Women in Prison."
Burkhart said she took a new approach to
investigating prison life while she was a
Philadelphia newspaper reporter, which
motivated her to write the book.
"Every time I went into a prison to inter
view, I used to hope the walls would fall
down, but the startling thing is that if that
happened, many of the inmates would be
busy rebuilding them in their minds
because they wouldn't know how to live
without them. And that's why over 60 per
ceni perpetrate a crime to get back in,"
Burkhart said.
Susan Thompson, co-founder of
Women's Prison Network, shared similar
opinions.
"Justice is not isolated from our lives, but
its definitions are something we accept
without Cjuestion. From the days of the
Constitution, laws have been designed to
protect people with property and money,"
said Thompson, who also spoke in the
Forum Room on Wednesday.
"But they aren't stopping the problem."
As a young reporter, Burkhart was "hor
rified by prisons." But she said she soon
opened her eyes and concluded "prisons
don't make any sense at all.
"They didn't give people the opportunity
to change for the better. In fact, they ac
complished the opposite by debilitating
them to the point where they could no
longer function acceptably in society," she
said.
During a week spent "inside," Burkhart
told how many women inmates become
"infantilized.
"It really was frightening — how quickly I
felt desperate. Under the authority of the
quards, even speaking becomes a
privilege.. showers, mail, visitors — all are
privileges," she said.
"But the bottom line in prisons for
women is the mass infancy treatment,"
Burkhart said. "Women who have been
decision makers all their lives are deprived
of their decision making abilities. The ex
pression of spontaneity, affection, the ablili
ty to decide when to eat or sleep, are all
removed and these are all things a person
needs to do in order to be a healthy adult."
And one of the biggest problems with the
prison system today is the rate of
recidivism, Burkhart said.
But in prisons where a release program is
in effect, the number of returnees drops by
50 percent, she said.
Both Burkhart and Thompson stressed
the difference that the availability of
resources made in the outcome of
criminals' sentences. Although crime
crosses economic, social and cultural bar
riers, " the poor are most prevalently in
carcerated,” Thompson said.
And this imbalance is evidenced in the
racial make-up of the prison population. For
example, blacks comprise only 2 percent of
Oregon's total population, yet the number
of black women in prison is more than 20
percent.
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