Artwork due Saturday
Students and local artists have until Saturday to get their
artwork together and submit it for a display aimed at drawing
different cultures together, says Foreign Student Organiza
tion Director Harshul Sanghi.
“Humanity in Perspective: An International Focus." an
art show sponsored by the FSO, will be held next week
presenting different artists' renderings of life in the 1980s,
Sanghi says.
Artists can submit their work on Saturday, from noon to
5 p.m. in Room 206, EMU. The show will open Sunday in
Room 167, EMU at 7 p.m.
A mixture of amateurs and professionals, including ar
tists from Seattle and Portland galleries, will be among those
presenting their work, Sanghi says. All artwork received will
be reviewed by a committee of University fine arts faculty and
students.
The event is the organization's first art show, and Sanghi
says he hopes it will become an annual attraction.
Balance
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made just in missiles, he said.
Another problem would be
the lack of a U.S. nuclear
arsenal would increase the na
tion’s vulnerability to terrorists,
especially terrorists who. in the
future, might use nuclear
weapons, he said.
But because terrorists are
often difficult to locate, the use
of nuclear weapons to deter
f
them would be nearly impossi
ble anyhow, he said. A more
dangerous situation, however,
would be if a terrorist nation
were to launch a nuclear attack.
"The conclusion 1 come
down to on this is, yes, the
danger is there, but it’s not a
reason, per se. to back off on a
goal of elimination of nuclear
weapons,” Moseley said.
FRIDAY FEB. 21, 1986
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
10:30 - 11:20 Nonna Jean Germond
past president Oregon League of Women Voters
"Hanford a kaleidescope of issues."
WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AT HANFORD
11:25 -12:15 Don Paine - Phd. Health and Physics and
manager of the Office of Emergency Preparedness
12:15 -1:00 Dr. Robert Alvarez of the Enviromentai
Policy Institute, Washington, D.C
HANFORD AS A FUTURE NATIONAL REPOSITORY
2:00 - 2:30 Slide Show - U.S. Department of Energy
Panel Discusson - University Moderator
2:30 - 4:00 UO Faculty - Gail Hum - geologist and
manager of the Waste Site Department U.SJ).O.E
ROOM 167 EMU aasxTcffU
r
Pushcart chicken peddler
puts architecture on hold
By Julie Freemen
Of th» Kmarald
The line in front of the small,
wooden cart outside the Univer
sity Bookstore usually begins
forming at 11:30 and does not
let up until late in the
afternoon.
To some, the wait is a daily
ritual; for others, it is a weekly
treat. But to Kim Tangtrongjita.
the line represents a successful
and growing business.
Tangtrongiita owns and
operates two pushcarts, from
which he sells the barbecued
honey chicken kabobs and
sandwiches that have forced
him to put his architecture
career on hold.
He began selling his special
sandwiches five years ago to
pay for classes at the University,
but his business took off so fast
that he traded his student status
for the title of fledgling
entrepreneur,
Tangtrongjita. who was born
in Bangkok. Thailand, views
the seemingly strange twist of
fate as a natural extension of his
talents, relating the design con
cept of architecture to cooking.
"Architecture (courses)
always made you think what
would make people stop,” he
says. "I apply this concept to
food as well ”
In fact, many people are in
itially drawn to Tangtrongjita's
carts because of the way he
makes his original creations. He
has perfected a style of prepara
tion that resembles a cross bet
ween the fapanese showmen at
restaurants such as Benihana’s
of Tokyo and professional chefs
such as )ulia Child.
Although he uses a set list of
4*. •— .
homemade ingredients, ranging
from a special plum sauce to a
mix of marinated vegetables,
Tangtrongjita says he does not
follow a recipe when he makes
each sandwich.
“You have to use your feel
ing," he says, using his hands
to describe his “little of this, lit
tle of that” theory of cooking.
Yet Tangtrongjita says he still
had to spend the first few years
of business coaxing his
customers away from their
traditional eating habits.
“At first, if something
doesn’t look like a hamburger or
hot dog, people don’t want to
try it.” he says. "People have to
realize that you can have pizza.
Chinese food and Mexican
(food) anywhere. This is
something created in Eugene
You can’t get it anywhere else."
The wooden carts out of
which Tangtrongjita works
represent another unique aspect
of his business. He designed
and built both of his carts,
which are made of oak and con
tain their own barbecue grills,
storage shelves, sinks and self
heating water systems.
He opened his first wheeled
restaurant on the Eugene
Downtown Mall in 1980 and
gave it the name (lart de Frisco's,
to distinguish it from the other
food carts in the area. He says
the name was inspired by the
sourdough bread that he intend
ed to use for his sandwiches.
Since that time, Tangtrongjita
has switched to using an onion
bun and has added another cart
to his growing business.
He moved his downtoWn
based operation to the campus
area two years ago. when the
pushcart business was thriving
on student dollars.
But a city ordinance
regulating street vendors reduc
ed the number of pushcart
operations on campus last
spring, leaving only Tangtrong
jita and another cart that sells
hot dogs to compete with
University-area restaurants
Tangtrongjita says he would
like the restaurants to see
pushcarts as a plus, noting that
they bring traffic to the area.
"Pushcarts are another street
'happening,' like a street musi
cian," he says. "It adds at
mosphere and is able to deal
better with the pedestrian
traffic,"
The pushcart concept is uni
que. he adds. They have mobili
ty and do not involve as much
risk as a restaurant, he says.
Nevertheless. Tangtrongjita
says he has had to work hard to
make his business a success
When he was still a one-man
operation, he used to get up at 6
a.ra. to prepare the ingredients
for his sandwiches and set .up
his cart. Sometimes his days did ''
not end until midnight, when
he had finished cleaning iip-and >
putting away his cart.. i:
Now. with one cart On cam-- ; ,
pus and one on the Downtown • .
Mall. Tangtrongjita lias a staff of " i
six workers and can .sleep-intm- ' i
til 8 a m . • V. .. ° • -
Although he still plans to
return to sch.no! for his aithitec- V*
turn degree, Tangtrongjita sej&s •;,
he would first like to.eXpand his -;
business to Portland. -
"I'm using' architecture, now '
in business, and I don't feel so 'Y
bad about not being in school.'*'’
he says. *• ’ •
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lm
Photo by Mnbcrl Mw*
A successful chicken sandwich pushcart business has put Kim Tangtrongjita's architecture
degree on hold for the time being.
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