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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1986)
OREGON HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES YOUR FORMER HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELORS WILL BE ON CAMPUS MONDAY, APRIL 14TH They want to talk with you. They want to find out how things are going. THEY'LL MEET YOU IN THE EMU FROM 1:15 TO 3:00 P.M. NEXT MONDAY Look for the room assignments on the EMU Bulletin Boards. . - There will also be an ad in Monday's Emerald showing the schools and room assignments. ■H M Ktim i miM W ■■■■■■■■Hi Till ORIGINAL. I M IT, I IM HEVEB MASTHIPIIXF. iminaij sitiifriami SAILVKEUKKNAN liARVBliGlOPr HOKFKT IMYAII FI.IJOT liOIIB KIIH'OHT MtlKMI T ALTMAN'S FRIDAY, APRIL II 7:00*9:30 PM IHOPLC IHMISMO V S2.IHI IIM l l<) II .IIMKItK I ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥*¥** ^ New Rage Sports Clothing with Barely Legal, Jimmy’Z, Quick-Silver, Lite’s a Beach and 96° ✓ Full service skateboard shop dealing in all major brands. Quality Reconditioned Bicycles, New Bicycles and Repair. Willamette Sports Center Presents: The 1st Annual Oregon State-Wide Street-Style Competition Saturday APRIL 12th • 10am to 4pm Behind the Black Angus Inn, 2121 Franklin Blvd., Eugene Worlds’s Best Pro Skaters representing major skateboard manufacturers will be skating for a $1500.00 purse. We Rent Roller Skate* 2705 Willamette 345-5945 Serving South Eugene Mon-Sat. 10:00 ■ 6:00 Sunday 12:00 ■ 5.00 #*******¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ CINEMA BBC feature records lives of young Britons 1n 1964. y 6 u n g Gran ada T e I e v. i si o n researcher M i c h a e 1 Apted chose 14 seven-year-old children to be the subject of a BBC ddcurnen tary "7 Up. ” The project was;so successful that Apted tiattie back every.seven years, to see how the -youngsters were do)hg. and created a new -feature ;to. show'for it .; „ • • ”28 Up” is more-than a, si ice .* pf life at 28. It's a thread of,fife.. Apted has sifted through the four diffe.fen} ‘periods;and .put . together a * fiI'm ' that-..• doesn't merely -peek , in at one-stage Of - develop" m »Vn t b u t •.. f olio w s; - . through and compares ^ w here , these prjople. were as children with whent they are now as adiilts' ;Vv~'.. :•j..,.,--' : V28 Up.'Vis also: the study of .an environment.! — ‘the British school \vstom and class,based society. As the: chiIdren grow * up. Ilieir surrouridingiiViVay'e ah . effect oh ihthr adult lives.V , • • ;■ ’ .. • *..<?■:$?¥[<:: ■’ ., : ".The brightest hinmenfs.are. of . .course,■ .with .the--seven-year-., 1_olds,.Seven4 is the thie where kids say what they really hrelr Af times; this-tendency, may em Iwrr.assthem]later V- at-14. at 21 and at 28,’At seven, the subj«*:ts - look into tliecamera,-jostle tliUir . Comrade* (three . upper-class boys alid three middle-class ■ girls .were interviewed as trips) and. say about' anything that . comes into their heads. The question that is repeated ly addressed is. VDo/we see (he Key duplication Make a spare. at your Bookstore i i Now Buying Clothes Call f«i appointment It* 701# to l\ie//(w 360 E. 11th IMnni Mill t High Open 10:00-6:00 Mon. Sat. uumruniiMipniainw 4740 MAIN ST. IMUMUItlD. OMUOM 747-7900 adult lii the child at ageseven?” . Of course, to a certain extent it is true.. The soft-spoken mathematician who at seven took delight in the nature of the universe teaches nuclear physics, at 28 at an American . ’• university.The kid who wanted to travel to, Africa .to teach now leaches the Underprivileged in Ixiiidon's Weat End V .• i Tlutse are siiccess stories-and there am others, but; can; .you call the.life .of two of the-three upper-class kids who mapped ouj their lives-in front /of a: camera' at. age seven 'add then went biifo fulfill'every detail of ( them°a success? Sip ■ . . The four Wop|en interviewed (apart from the wives of two pf .'.the then)' found happiness in marriugi) ahdraislng families Simon. the youngltlark fellow raised in a boardinghouse has similarly found happiness in his family., but. he. has also foiind satisfaction in the - manual-.labor position that, seven years ago. he predicted /'he‘d j««ye. The most sobering case is Neil who, at 28. is a drifter, a dropout surviving on odd jobs At seven. Neil wanted to go to the moon. No jiiytilom is a monolith and “■28 Up" certainly doesn't con demn the British school system but what it shows doesn't speak highly of Britain or America There's enough variety for peo ple to point to a character or two to prove that success comes to those who deserve it, hut then the whole question of who deserves.what comes into ques tion. Undoubtably. the upper class boys worked through public-school. crammed for ex ams and . earned their Oxford University degrees Would they! however, have worked so hard if like Neil or Simon or cab driver Tony, they hadn't even the hope of going to Oxford? Certainly, it is fascinating on a sociological level to see the kids become adults and to check in with them at moments in their lives More than simply a case study, however, this film makes us privy to the dreams, aspirations and values of these people, and how those things change over time. Most of the bright-eyed youngsters do find some happiness at 2H, lint at what cost to the spirit and the drive of that child within them? "28 Up" has been praised by teachers, sociologists and critics as a unique alimpse into what It’s really It!*• to see so meone grow up. It’s also a brilliant exploration of a society that molds these minds and per sonalities. "28 Up" will never settle any of the "heredity vs. environment" arguments once and for all (again, no system is a monolith), but Apted seems to have found some convincing evidence on the side of environment. By Sean Axmnker