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Oregon Daily_ _ Emerald Friday, May 2ft 1989 Eugene. Oregon Volume 90. Number lfi3 _Inside ■ Indy's ‘Last Crusade,’ Page 9 ■ Duck qualifiers. Pages 11 ft 12 ■ ‘Big Daddy’ Mellencamp, Page 8 ■ EMU Food Court, Page 5 Students dedicate tree as a tribute to Olum By Chris Bouneff Emerald Reporter Members of the Presidential Scholars Association on Thurs day dedicated a sapling tree to retiring University President Paul Olum as a tribute to his nine years of service. The tree ceremony was held outside of Johnson Mall in the area enclosed by Hendricks and Susan Campbell halls. The tree is a Kivers purple beech, which has an expected life span of 100 years. At its base is a plaque dedicating the tree to Olum for his service as president. “President Olum has done a lot for the Presidential Scholars Association." said University senior Brian Daikh. “We want ed to do something to show our gratitude.” During the dedication cere mony. senior Krista 1-aursen described Olum as a fighter when it comes to supporting higher education ami said stu dents "could find no better role model for such action" than Olum. In a separate event Wednes day evening, members of the Eugene and University commu nities held a dinner party to honor Olum for his commit ment to bridging the gap be tween the city and the Univer sity. "I’m still not over it." Olum said. "1 can't tell you how great it is getting that kind of sup port." Olum said he was pleased that his "favorite program on campus" decided to honor him in such an appropriate manner. Turn to Olum, Page 6 1 Photo b» Hill Main** The University Presidential Scholars Association dedicated a sapling to retiring I’niversity President Paul Olum on Thursday. “1 Soviet art show to be brought to fcMU Student to be curator By Catherine Hawley Emerald Contributor_ As a result of friendships formed with Soviet art ists in Eugene last winter, a University senior will travel to the Soviet Union in September to select art work for an exhibition to be shown on campus and across the country. Fine arts student Will White met two artists from Leningrad when the Leningrad Show, an exhibition of con temporary unofficial Soviet art. came to the EMIJ Art Gallery in January. White, who is the ASUO visual arts coordinator, said he arranged for the show to be brought to Eugene from Berkeley, C'alif.. after a friend told him about it. White became friends with Elena Figurina and Valentin Gerasimenko, two of the 21 artists whose works were shown in the exhibition, when they vis ited Eugene while the Leningrad Show was on campus. "Even though 1 don't speak Russian and they don't speak much English, we really got along well and communicated well." White said At the end of their stay, Figurina and Gerasimenko invited White to go to the Soviet Union. White didn't think he could afford it until he came up with the idea of going as a curator to choose works for another exhibition of Soviet art. White submitted his proposal to Visual Arts Resources, the traveling ex hibition department of the University Museum of Art. which accepted his idea earlier inis spring. The works White selects will be shown on campus and then will become part of the museum s touring program. The exhibition will be available for two years to more than 600 museums, galleries, art centers, schools and libraries across the United States and Canada that belong to the touring program. White will leave for I^eningrad on Sept. 4 with Barbara Hazard, who chose the works for the Lenin grad Show. White said he hopes to travel to Moscow as well as Leningrad during his three-week stay in the Soviet Union. White has applied for several grants to finance his trip, and a sponsor has offered to pay his airfare. He is trying to raise money for other expenses, including ap proximately $1,000 in gift taxes he must pay on the works he brings out of the Soviet Union. Once the works are in the United States. Visual Arts Resources will cover the costs of preparing and circulating the exhibition. White said he will stay with artists while he is in Umingrad. most likely with Figurina. He is currently applying to the Soviet government for permission to stay with a private citizen. Mark. Photo b. | ASUO Visual Arts Coordinator Will White will travel to the So viet Union next fall to choose works for a traveling display of unofficial Soviet art. ri^urind a mi mu umur (hums rryi»r>niu-u <u mr Leningrad Show are unofficial artists In the Soviet Union, only those artists certified hy the Artists' Union are recognized as professionals and officially al lowed to show and sell their works. Unofficial artists must earn their livings at regular jobs ranging from poster designing to furnace tending, and they work at their art in their free time All of the artists from the Leningrad Show are members of Tovarashchestvo, or Fellowship for Exper imental Art. which provides a community for non union artists and promotes their works. White said he will probably meet union artists, but he said he probably won't bring back any of their Turn to Art, Page 6 Council chairman makes apologies By Frale de Guzman Emerald Associate Editor The Council for Minority Education's final meeting ended on a positive note Thursday, de spite an early confrontation Former MEChA (Latino-Chlcano Student Union) Director Maria Ana Christensen read an announcement clarifying a statement she made at an April 13 CME meeting demanding council Chairman Jim l-ong's resignation and a public apology from Long. At that meeting. MEChA members expressed their anger over Long's harsh criticism of ASUO Minority Affairs Coordinator Teresa Gonzales' de cision to go before the Student Senate and seek its assistance in blocking CMK's charter proposal scheduled to In; presented before the University Senate on March B Christensen said that "during last month's board meeting. I found myself to la; in a situation where extreme pressures were placed on me to support ideologies and interests of individuals whose tactics were in direi I conflict with mv own. "I was placed in situation that demanded nothing less than the complete polarization of students,” Christensen said, adding that since then "I have regretted my capitulation" to pres sure received and wanted to further clarify her position in the "confrontation between MEChA and Ur Long." "I allowed myself to lie intimidated by cer tain students who told me that I was allowing my personal interests to color my perspective on what was in the best interest of MEChA.” she said. Although Christensen said that she did not disagree that Izing needed to make a formal apol ogy for the "extensive and public nature” of his reprimand, she said that "any uttempts to elicit more than a public apology constitutes a simple personal vendetta that should be handled by an other forum." In Long's letter of apology distributed and read to council members and formally accepted by MEChA. he acknowledged that his conduct during CME's March meeting "put an unfair fo cus on one person — Teresa Gonzales." “To make matters worse. I stood during my Turn to Council, Page 6