Women’s walkout and rally planned for 2 p.m.
MEETINGS
KMIJ Board will meet at 5:30
p.m. in the EMU Hoard Room
New Directions, a group for
women 35 and older, will meet
Et als
in EMU Century Room H from 7
to 8:30.
Survival Center's Ancient
forest/ancient lands meeting
will be at 6:30 pm in EMU
Suite 1 Ail are welcome
No Gulf War Coalition will
meet at f> p m in 112 Esslinger.
OSPIRG recycling meeting
will la* at C»:30 p m in EMU
Century Room E.
GTF Federation will hold a
general membership meeting at
5:30 p.m in EMU Century
Room D.
Incidental Fee Committee
will meet at 7 p m in the EMU
Hoard Room
Public Relations Student. So
ciety of America will have a
general business meeting at
5:30 p m in 214 Allen
Alpha lambda Della and Phi
Eta Sigma honor aocieliea will
meet at 7 p m. in the EMU Wal
nut Room A guest speaker will
discuss Measure 5's effects.
Christian Science Organiza
tion will meet at 4:30 p.m in
EMU Century Room B
German Club will meet at 5
p.m. in EMU Cedar Room I)
International Students Asso
ciation will meet at 4 30 p.m
in EMI' Room 20(>
PNPMA Student Chapter
will meet at 5 p m in 333 Gil
bert.
SPEAKERS & WORKSHOPS
"Happy endings and resist
ing women: The economy of
love in Boccaccio’s Oet.amervn
" is the title of a lecture to be
given by Dr Kay Fleming at
4 30 p m in the EMU Oak
Room
“Changing majors: More
than one way to reach your ca
reer goals" is the name of a
Eugene's weslside neighborhood cafe, fea
turing home baked breads and desserts,
Mexican, vegetarian and meat entrees
Good food at a reasonable price
Weekend Dinner Special—
Friday & Saturday
SEAFOOD CHOWDER
with Green Salad and Corn Muffins.$3.95
W 5th at Lawrence
7 a m to 9 p m Mon-Sat
/ a m to 2 p m Sundays
Breakfast til 2 p m
Jesus Revealed
Is the Christ A Person Or An Office ?
Was Jesus An Enlightened Master?
.4/ the name of Jesus
even knee should how
Philippians 2 10
Christ mis for wur
acceptance of Him as
wurself
A Course in Miracles
A MARS HILL FORUM
Sponsored by Restoration Campus Ministry and featuring
DOUGLAS GROOTHU1S
Author of I'nnmkmi! The Sew Age. Confronting The Sew
■•K’c. atul Revealing The Sew Age Jesus
Friday February 8th
Ben Linder Room EMU
12:00 noon-1:30 pm
Ample time for discussion
For information call Richard Beswick. MM914
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DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD
—BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Dust Tracks on the Road is interesting on several different levels
First as (he brilliantly told life story of /ora Neale Hurston, a
black woman who was bom at the turn of the century, who be
came a folklorist, anthropologist, and one of the elite group of
black writers who made up the Harlem Renaissance in the 192()'s.
This entrancing story reads like a novel and transports one into tire
period of the tale with grace, humor and passion.
Oust Tracks is ■ very inform*], conversational narrative about the people ami
places which form the background of Hurston's life. It traces ha birth and
childhood in Eatonvillc, Florida, the all black incorporated self governing town
which Hurston describes as "burly . boiling, hard hitting, rugged individuals
lie.” After ha Motha, a former teacher, dies, her rockyrclationship with ha
Father, a preacher who could "preach the blue out of the sky” and one of the
founders of Fatonville, completely disintegrates and /ora is set adrift for a
while, moving from boarding school to various relatives and finally going off
on her own. She studied at Howard Umvasity, received her degree from Bar
nard, worked for and hecarne friends with Fannie Hurst, and traveled through
the South. Haiti and Jamaica collecting the fables, stories and songs of her peo
ple. She wrote seven books and won numerous awards including two Guggen
hcim fellowships.
On the second level one becomes aware, after reading commentaries by Maya
Angelou (who writes the forward to this edition of the book), Alice Walker,
and others who have written about Zora Neale Hurston's life, that there are
myslaics about her life that still have not been solved, and dial may never be
solved.
Was she bom in 1901 as she states in Dust Tracks, or a decade earlier as the
records seem to show? What then became of that decade in ha life, what hap
pened to ha during that lime? How would her writing have been different if
she hadn't had to censor ha story for while publishas and for a while audi
ence? How would her autobiography have changed had it been written later in
life instead of the peak of her carca? Was Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography
written he a woman who simply "look liberties with the truth” or was it writ
ten by a woman who needed to make a safe space for ha self in a hostile world?
If one of the criteria for a well written hook is that it leaves you w anting more,
then Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography Dust Tracks on the Road succeeds on
both levels, as a good entataining read, and as a mystery story.
— Reviewed by Barbara Mater
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workshop to lx* held from noon
to 1 p m. in 237 Hendricks.
Sign-up is required.
"Christian pacifism" is the
topic of a lecture being given
by Clyde Parker of the Friends
Church The talk will lie at 7:30
p.m at the Newman (.enter,
1850 Emerald, and is part of a
series examining "War. peace
and the Christian tradition."
A free advanced Macintosh
workshop will lie given from
11 a m to 1 p.m. in Room 175
of the Computing Center. Tips,
short cuts, hard disk manage
ment. utilities, virus software
and public domain software
will be discussed.
MISCELLANEOUS
A women's walkout and ral
ly will be held from 2 to 3 p.m.
in front of Johnson Hall to pro
test the impact of proposed
budget cuts on academic pro
grams composed primarily of
women.
A representative from Stu
dent Conservation Association
will lie at a table in the EMU
lobby from noon lo 4 p.m. to
answer questions about ex
pense-paid summer outdoor in
ternships across the nation
Rap with the Rabbi will lx' at
4 p.m. in the Koinonia Center,
1414 kincaid
No draft needed,
authorities say
WASHINGTON (AI>) — Pres
ident Hush's nominee to head
the Selective Service System
said Wednesday the agency
could provide 100,000 men to
the military within a month if
the White House and Congress
reinstituted the draft
But Robert W. Gambino told
the Senate Armed Services
Committee he hoped the draft
would not have to be resumed
"1 pray, with other Ameri
cans, that the tuture national
security needs of our country
vs >11 lie satisfied without resort
ing to a draft," Gambino told
the committee at his confirma
tion hearing.
Sen John Warner of Virginia,
ranking Republican on the pan
el, noted that Hush said Tues
day he didn’t see any need for a
draft now or in the foreseeable
future.
"We have a long w'ay to go
vet," added Sen John Glenn.
D-Ohio.
The president's authority to
draft men into the armed
forces, which had been routine
ly renewed by Congress every
four years, expired July 1,
1973, three months after the
last U S. soldiers left Vietnam
The military then became an
all-volunteer force.
Even if the draft were rein
stated quickly, there would be
a significant time lag before
conscripts reached the gulf. By
law, draftees may not be sent
oversees for three months after
induction.
"1 know the Selective Service
System can deliver 100,000
registrants to the Department of
Defense within 30 days after
the request to supply the man
power," Gambino said.
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