Angela
Allen
Morgan
suits herself.
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Oregon
arts & entertainment
.1984
Jusra little dash of Culture
And, from the looks of things, a whole lot of fun
FERRARO
Stepping into the office of the
EMU Cultural Forum can be a
disorienting experience.
Clashing with the image of
somewhat stuffy sophistication
implied by the organization’s
name is a doctored campaign
poster on the door that reads
“Ramones/Ferraro” and the
sound of good-natured bicker
ing emanating from inside over
who gets to promote an upcom
ing concert.
Story by Michael Fisher
Photos by Steven Wall
Cultural? It depends on your
definition. One thing is clear
from the outset, though — the
Forum has fun.
On the ground floor of the
EMU the eight students who
run the Cultural Forum, along
with the many on its events
crew, are busy nearly every day
getting together most of the
entertainment and informa
tional events that go on at the
University.
With the assistance of the
EMU Program Consulting Of
fice, these eight volunteer coor
dinators each handle an aspect
of University events, ranging
from concerts and film to con
temporary issues and the visual
arts.
Each is in control of a portion
of the Forum's $68,000 budget,
drawn from students’ incidental
fees, and is responsible for the
planning and execution of
whatever activities they feel are
of interest to the campus.
“The Forum was founded on
the principle of providing
recreational, cultural, and
educational programs for the
students,” said Frank Celtner,
assistant director of the EMU
and the University Program
Consultant for the Cultural
Forum.
Geltner called it “a fluid
organization that is meant to
reflect the attitudes of the cur
rent student body.” The coor
dinators, he added, make nearly
all their own decisions ‘‘so that
they have a sense of owner
ship” of the Forum, instead of
control by the EMU.
In his second
year as coor
dinator of
popular con
certs is Tim
Schafbuch,
who says his
main goal
has been to
‘‘bring
bands here
that the campus has never seen,
such as The Clash, who played
for the first and only time in
Oregon at a Forum-sponsored
concert at the University last
year.”
"It’s a real professional
organization,” Schafbuch said
of the Forum. “You have a lot of
resQUrces and a lot of potential
to benefit the students.”
Heritage
music coor
d i n a t o r
Jamie
M c K i 11 o p
has been try^
ing to pro
mote ‘‘any
kind of
music that
draws on
cultural heritage,” including
folk, blues, reggae, and
bluegrass.
Among the projects that
McKillop oversees are the an
nual spring Folkfest and a series
of weekly concerts in the EMU.
His goals are to ‘‘bring as
wide a variety of music as 1
can" to both events and to
‘‘generate excitement about
heritage music” at the
University.
Mike Bode is
the jazz coor
dinator,
responsible
for the
Wednesday
night jazz
gigs in the
Fishbowl
and the jazz
series being
co-sponsored by Face The
Music Records, which brought
the Tom Grant Band to the
Ballroom last month.
“1 want to show people what
jazz is," said Bode.
Continued
Mark
J o c k e r s ,
coordinator
of the beer
gardens,
said he has
enjoyed "the
opportunity
to work one
on-one with
the bands”
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