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.
Women and men are nearly
equal in Islamic countries, and
in fact some of the greatest
Islamic scholars are women, he
said.
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