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Library gets Australian books Hy Kirsten Bolin Of llw Km«rald More lhan 300 Australian hooks. Including volumes un art, politics, histofy and fiction, were donated to the University Library Wednesday by a representative of the Australian government. Terry Bransden, information director for the Australian Con sulate in San Francisco, presented the lawks to Universi ty officials in a brief ceremony at the Oregon Collection in the University Library. “This book gift, we hope, will help bridge a serious knowledge gap of Australia in the United States,” Bransden said. The donation, valued at ap proximately $4,300, marks the third book donation to the University's Australian collec tion hy the Australian govern ment "This shows the continued and growing relationship of the Australian government and the University.” said jack Bennett, president of the University's Australian Studies Committee. An effort to establish an Australian Studios Center is now underway and involved administration and faculty members view yesterday's donation as an important step toward achieving that goal "We're very pleased to receive this magnificant collec tion," said Richard Mill, University provost. "We hope with our own resourses we can build one of the finest collec tions in the United States.” The University is one of only three universities in the United States to have comprehensive resources on Australia. Photo by Robert Here Turn, Bransden (left) of the Australian Consulate in San Fran cisco talks with political science Professor Gerald Fry (right) Wednesday about the book donation to the University. Moslem-American says U.S. distorts Islam, other cultures By Andrew LaMar Of I hr Kmrraltl The U.S. media and school systems misrepresent history as well as other cultures and religions of the world, which causes most Americans to misunderstand Islam and the Middle hast, said the editor of an Islamic newspaper. Steve johnson, director of the Department of Da'wah (implica tions and explanations) of Islamic society of North America and editor of Islamic Horizons, spoke to about 30 people Wednesday night. "I’m a bit concerned as a Moslem-American at the in stitutionalization of and legitimization of the misrepresentation of Islam in America." johnson said "Un fortunately, to watch television lately is to think Moslem and terrorist is a hyphenated word. ’ ’ he said. Johnson, who converted from Catholicism to Islam after becoming friends with several Moslems at Indiana State University, said that it is no wonder U.S. media and school systems distort Islam, because they even distort U.S. history. lie said many famous dead Americans are being misrepresented in textbooks us ed in not only grade school and high school but also in many of this nation's universities. "We don't send children to school for their own good," Johnson said. “We send children to school for something called their nation's good. We send children to school so that they learn how not to interrupt the evil patterns they see before them." The problem isn't that children are taught to be evil, but that they are taught to lie apathetic, Johnson said. We teach our children to behave well in the presence of despair, which blinds them to society’s problems and their causes. As a result, the problem is manifesting itself in American society, he said. "The National Institute of Mental Health reports that 20 percent of all Americans suffer some form of mental disorder,” Johnson said. “Severe depres sion strikes 9.5 million and more than 10 million Americans, which would be 6.3 percent of the total U.S. popula tion, are drug or alcohol abusers.” Murder, rape, robbery, suicide and sexual abuse of children have all drastically in creased in the past 20 years, he said. The point is that we’ve become “anonymous entities” in this society, which is quite different than an Islamic socie ty, he said. Contrary to what most Americans are led to believe, Islam doesn't advocate unjust punishment to those violating the law. worship of Muhammad as a god, or persecution of peo ple of other religions, he said. 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