Young artists create flags
By Jacquie Long
Of th« Emerald
Picasso once said that children are the best
artists of all. And a look at the new flags flying
outside the University Child Care Center might
show he was right.
Designs for two of the three flags, chosen
from almost 30 drawings, are the creations of
some of the University’s youngest artists now in
attendance at the child care center.
Graham Findley IV, 5, Marisa Thompson, 4,
and David Blasher, 4, drew the pictures, which
were then appliqued on brightly colored nylon. A
third flag was designed by an older child who is
not from the center.
The flags are each done in a primary color —
red, blue and yellow — and will be used to teach
the children about color and form, says Dennis
Reynolds, who is in charge of the toddlers at the
center.
Reynolds said the flags will be used several
other ways as learning tools.
“We put a lot of emphasis on process here
and try to teach the kids about the steps of doing
things,” he says. “The flags will be used as part
of our curriculum and will be hanging inside
when they’re not on the flagpole. We’il show the
kids how an original design can be replicated in
another, completely different form,” he adds.
The yellow flag, showing the beginning of
the alphabet, was designed by Marisa. When ask
ed about it, however, she shyly denies having
drawn the original.
The blue flag is a combination of three draw
ings. It portrays a mermaid, a turtle and a lion,
drawn by both David and Graham. “David saw
‘Splash’ (the movie) the week before he drew
this,” Reynolds says.
The red flag, called the "birthday banner,” is
of carousel horses and has silver spangles sewn
on. Reynolds says this flag will be flown on bir
thdays and special occasions.
“I wish we could fly the flags all the time,
. .. but I’m afraid they’d end up on some siu
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Photo by Paul Ertelt
Marisa Thompson and Graham Findley IV
helped design the flags that now fly from the
child care center tower.
dent’s apartment wall,” he says.
When they are up, the flags will be on the
flagpole of the climbing structure in the
playground area outside the child care center at
1511 Moss St.
“When the structure was built about five
years ago, we wanted a flag to fly here,” Reynolds
says. “Now we finally have some.”
The flags were sewn by Mia Arends, a
graduate student in art, who works at the EMU
Craft Center. Funds from the EMU Cultural
Forum's art budget were used to pay for the flags.
Resignation angers many
By Mike Sims
Of th« Emerald
The first Miss America to be
asked to relinquish her crown
has done so, and with the
reason for her resignation now
selling well on the nation’s
newsstands, the controversy
has drawn various reactions.
Vanessa Williams, Miss
America 1984, was asked to
resign when Penthouse
magazine announced that nude
photographs of Williams would
appear in its September issue.
Williams, the first black woman
to hold the title, announced her
resignation at a press con
ference Monday in New York
City.
Mavis Mate, University
Women’s Studies Council
chair, asserted that Williams
has been treated unfairly in two
ways. ’’First, the magazine has
violated her privacy by
publishing the pictures,” Mate
said. “Second, 1 think the
(pageant officials) overreacted
to the whole matter. One would
think that the officials would
join in condemning the
magazine and not the woman
herself.”
Mate said that she would be
encouraged by a boycott of Pen
thouse. “That’s the only way
you can get through to them
that this sort of behavior is
unacceptable,” she said.
“Money talks, it seems.
“It’s sad that in the need to
sell magazines, one would react
with this sort of journalism.”
Ed Coleman, associate pro
fessor of English specializing in
black literature and history,
voiced a harsher indictment of
the magazine.
‘ * I think that the
photographer (Tom Chiapel)
and Bob Guccione (Penthouse
publisher) are absolute
slimeballs for their timing,”
Coleman said. “(They) were in
terested only in getting more
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money than they would have
received had the pictures been
published after September.
Those photos shouldn't have
been published without
Vanessa’s consent.”
The possibility of racism in
fluencing Penthouse’s action
didn’t escape Coleman. “Guc
cione knew Vanessa was the
first black to hold the title and
was, 1 think, totally insensitive
to the racial implications of
printing the photos.”
Coleman voiced regret for
Williams, saying, “I know peo
ple do things in their youth that
they wouldn’t do normally.”
He also expressed sympathy for
the pain Williams feels over an
incident that, in Coleman’s
words, “may have ruined her
life.”
First runner-up Suzette
Charles of New Jersey, who took
the oath as Miss America after
Williams’ resignation, is also
black. Coleman acknowledged
that Charles’ assumption of the
title would “take some of the
sting out” of the Williams
resignation but not all. “It just
won’t be the same ... the
damage has been done. And I
think many blacks will feel
betrayed that Vanessa has
allowed herself to be used like
this.”
Coleman also said that there
would be some racial repercus
sions on the part of whites as a
result of the resignation.
“Those who didn’t want to see
a black woman as Miss America
in the first place can sit back
and say, ’You see!
Steve Phillips, executive
director for the Miss Oregon
Pageant, said that Miss America
pageant officials were correct in
asking for Williams’ resigna
tion. He also expressed
dissatisfaction with media
coverage of the Penthouse con
troversy. “We work so hard to
publicize the Miss Oregon
Pageant, with little result,”
Phillips said. “Then this thing
comes along with front page
headlines.”
The 1985 Miss Oregon
Pageant was held July 14 in
Seaside. Renee Louise Bagley of
West Linn, a junior at Portland
State University, became the
first black woman to hold the
Miss Oregon title.
The September issue of Pen
thouse features Williams (fully
clothed) and actor George Burns
on its cover, under the caption
“Miss America: Oh God, She’s
Nude!” Sales of the magazine
were reported to be brisk at
several Eugene-area stores, one
claiming it sold 25 of its 80
available copies within two
hours after the magazine was
placed on the newsstand.
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