University to have its day at the Hult Center
By Kim Carlson
CM the Emerald
After the big homecoming game is over
and most of the parties are winding down,
the "Duck Experience '83" will still be alive
and quacking.
Sunday, at 11:15 a.m., the Hult Center for
the Performing Arts will sponsor the se
cond annual "UO Day at the Hult Center."
Special performances by members of the
University music school, dance department
and University Theatre will highlight event.
The Jazz Lab Band I starts with a concert
in the Hult Center courtyard at 11:15 a.m.
The music inside starts at 1 p.m. with per
formances by the Oregon Wind Ensemble,
the University Singers and the University
Symphony. Each will play for about 25
minutes, in either Studios I or II or the Silva
Hall.
Japanese theater music.
A segment of the University Theatre hit
"The Last Dragon" will be presented at 4:30
p.m. The rock fantasy was first performed
Homecoming won't end with football.
Faculty and student members of the
University dance school will perform in the
Silva Hall from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The dances
will include both modern and traditional
works from members of the department's
faculty. Included are, "Cat Tales," a whim
sical suite of vignettes about felines; and
"Sarinagara (...And Yet),” reflecting
for local audiences last winter and was
repeated this fall. It is an entry in the
American College Theater Festival Competi
tion, and could be performed at a national
festival this spring in Washington, D.C.
The play is an original work by Jerry
Williams, Grant McKernie, Melanie Leslie,
Mike Maples and Chris Foote. McKernie, a
University theater professor, is directing
the play.
The Hult Center's University Day also will
feature a display of costumes from the
University Theatre's spring 1983 production
of "The Merchant of Venice." The
costumes, designed by Alexandra Bonds
and constructed by students in the theater
costume shop, are made from exquisite and
rich fabrics, according to theater students.
Geometric patterns and metallic colors are
used to evoke the atmosphere of the Italian
Renaissance and the monetary themes of
the Shakespearean play, the students say.
Admission is free to all events and the
public is invited.
President
will speak
at Forum
University Pres. Paul
Olum will answer questions
and talk with students today
at 12:30 p.m. in the EMU
Forum Room, as part of the
weekly Brown Bag Forum,
sponsored by the ASUO
and the Campus Interfaith
Ministry.
Prior to the forum, the
ASUO-sponsored Open
Mike in the EMU Courtyard
will focus on the proposed
cut in student representa
tion in the University
Senate. That subject had
been scheduled for last
week but was postponed to
allow students the oppor
tunity to air their views on
the U.S. invasion of
Grenada.
The University Assembly
will vote Nov. 9 on a pro
posal to reduce student
representation in the senate
from 18 to eight members.
The Student University
Affairs Board and the ASUO
have been lobbying faculty
members to vote against
the proposal and vote for an
amendment that would
preserve a one-third stu
dent proportion in the
senate.
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Experience can help, hinder
Fiction writer hands out tips
Writing too directly from experience can leave
fiction flat, according to "autobiographical fiction"
writer Mark Costello.
Costello, author of the award-winning book,
"The Murphy Stories," spoke on the
autobiographical aspects of his work Tuesday at the
University.
"A really good piece of work has to spring out of
something that's fundamentally moving," said
Costello, who teaches creative writing at the Univer
sity of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
An afternoon in Wichita, Kansas, was a moving
experience which left him with material he finally us
ed in the final story of the book, "Murphy's Xmas,"
he explained.
That afternoon a lot of bizarre things happened,
Costello said. A one-year anniversary special on the
assasination of John F. Kennedy was pre-empted by a
Dracula movie. A cargo plane full of jet fuel crashed
and exploded in a predominately black section of
Wichita, only blocks from the site of a game to be
played by the then top-ranked college basketball
team in the country, Wichita State.
Local officials debated whether the game should
be played because of the accident, but the game
went on as scheduled.
"They had a moment of silence for 'those
Americans who gave their lives' at the game,"
Costello said. "I think it was phrased kind of funny."
To top it off, Costello remembered hearing peo
ple in bars after the game saying, "Well, at least it
(the plane) crashed there (in the black section)."
To write about the afternoon exactly as it hap
pened would have made an anecdote, not fiction, he
said.
Although "Murphy's Xmas" has no real
resemblance to his experience, Costello said he took
different ideas, like the assasination, and blended
them into the story.
Costello said he didn't begin writing the story un
til a year later.
"You have to have some distance from what
you're writing about," he said.
But the autobiographical impulse is always
strong and his "fix," he added.
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gram. Rebekah Aasen of Spr
ingfield said as a renter, she has
no control over whether her
house will be weatherized or not.
Aasen said her home was
recently insulated, causing her to
become ill and eventually forcing
her to move.
Three types of pollutants are
responsible for the problem:
radon, formaldehyde and com
bustion particles. The weatheriza
tion does not produce these
pollutants, but it cuts off the flow
of air that would remove them.
Radon is a naturally occuring
radioactive gas that is emitted
from the earth's surface. Homes
with basements or inadequate
crawl spaces have a higher level of
radon and have been excluded
from the program.
Concentrations of radon vary in
different areas, and Walter said it
is not common in the Eugene area.
Also excluded are homes with
formaldehyde insulation; mobile
homes, which have high for
maldehyde concentrations
because they are usually con
structed with particle board; and
homes with wood or unvented
gas stoves.
The Eugene hearing was the
fifth of seven such hearings being
held throughout the Northwest.
The BPA will probably make a
decision next spring on the fate of
the program, said Clark.
Emerald
rakes in
awards
The Oregon Daily
Emerald was recently
awarded the highest rank
ing by the Columbia
Scholastic Press Association
for scoring 911 of 1,000
possible points in a nation
wide contest.
The Emerald was named a
medalist newspaper by the
association. Only 10 per
cent of the newspapers in a
given category receive the
medalist ranking. Medalist
rankings are given from
among the first place
finishers.
The Emerald earned
perfect marks in the news
pages, feature pages, in
depth stories, other pages
and advertisements
categories.
The paper also was given
three A11-Co I u m b i a n
awards. The purpose of the
All-Columbian rating “is to
encourage work in selected
fields and to call attention
to worthy effort within the
publication," according to
contest officials.
The Columbia Scholastic
Press Association is af
filiated with Columbia
University, New York. They
have sponsored the contest
for the last 50 years.
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