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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1986)
WANTED STUDENT PARTICIPATION During Winter and Spring terms, the’ University will be engaged in a self-study exercise preliminary to its reaccreditation by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. The University Administration seeks interested students to participate on the following self-study task, forces: Undergraduate Education (2) Graduate Education (2) University Finance (1) Physical Plant (1) University Administration (1) Libraries (2) Student Affairs (2) Outreach Programs and Special, Collections (2) If you are interested in helping with this effort, please submit a short letter of application to Ray Viellet, ASUO University Affairs Coordinator,. ASUO, Suite 4 EMU; or Steering Committee, President's Office, 110 Johnson Hall. Appointments shall be made during the third week of January. __ ■_^ • -- The most exciting few hours you’ll spend all week. Run. Climb. Rappel. Navigate. ! .eatl. And develop the confidence and skills you won’t get from a textbook. Enroll in Army ROTC as one of vour electives. Get the facts today. BK Al l . YOU CAN BE Cali 686-3102/3 or visit 1679 Agate St. ARMY RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS ‘Spielberg simplicity ’ fails The question that needs to be asked is simple: can a white subur ban wonder boy from the West Coast interpret the poor black female experience in the turn-of-the-century Deep South? My answer, bn evidence of Steven Spielberg's "The Col or Purple," is an unqualified „ “No." The opening of the film says it all. The camera Is focused on the foreground lilacs in a field of purple flowers. In the background the sounds of. children can be heard and dark blurs are glimpsed through the buds. Slowly the camera focuses in on the two girls play ing in the field, sisters who swear their devotion to one another before this paradise is shattered by the arrival of their abusive stepfather, calling them in for chores. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) spends the rest of the film trying to recover this paradise while By Sean Axmaker ; ■ ' suffering miserably at the hands of the cruel "Mr." (Danny Glover), to whom Fa has given Celie as a wife. Mr. had wanted to marry Gelie’s younger, pret tier sister Nettie (Akosua Busia). but Pa had designs on her. Thus Celie is trapped in a marriage she didn’t want, with a man that doesn't love her while Nettie is i^rced to leave because of advances made by both Ha and Mr. Yet for all the pain and suffer ing that goes on through the story, which chronicles almost the entire life of Celle, Spielberg ‘ would have us believe that this • is still a soft-focus wonderland, a veritable Or where purple • lilacs dot the landscape ' and' God looks out for hfs~ own. . . Something* is amiss i.n . Spielberg land There, are"’no-, aliens, ho. wide-eyed fchild o stars, no macho adventurers ' and last-minute chases.. Here. * he's got to deal with real ptkiple' » and he can’t do it Sure there are engaging characters. ’ but" they ”, are mere sketches bf.figures that . should .be fully ’developed.. ^ * • Continued on Page 3B rnnto i ottfiMv wi«ntf Hrm im 0 Celie 's (Whoopi Goldberg) loveless marriage to Mr, (Danny Glover) is $ key part of her personal0 arowth omross as in Warner Brothers' “The Color Ihirple," adapted from Alice growth process as depicted in Walker's prize-winning novel. WILLAMETTE PASS SKI PROGRAM AMO EUGENE PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT TOWN SERIES SKI LEAGUE competitive lcaouc: Friday evenings 7 • 10pm Jan. 17 • Fab. 28; $125/team nccrcatiom leaouc Sunday afternoons 12 • 4pm Jan. 19 • Feb. 23; $100/team RCOtCTIUTION: EPRD Office 777 High St. Suite 102 deadline: January 13, 1986 More information call EPRD at 687-5360 ... ^frrtfrmnu i mi. Give Life.' Give Plasma. Your blood plasma is a vital Ingredient in the fight against injury and disease Become a paid plasma donor and save lives It Pays To Help Hyland Plasma Center 40 E. 10th St., Eugene 683-3953