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Student vigil honors MLK birthday
By Daralyn Trappe
Erecad Assoc ate Ed tc*
It started with a birthday t ake in
the LIMl) nut the singing and < an
I dli’s didn't come until hours later
on the steps of Johnson Hull
And in between; the celebration
of Martin Luther king Jr.'s birth
dav inr hided ja// music , a discus
sion of Americ:a's rac ial divisions
and a chance to meet author/poet
Nikki Giovanni
Students at the University com
memoraled King’ s birthdav
Wednesday, the first of .i sivdav
celebration in Eugene honoring
the civil rights leader
The vigil and march began with
University student Ishaq
Shantsud-din speaking to about
too people who gathered outside
Johnson Hall.
"It feels good to see everyone
here, it gives me energs and
makes me want to move ahead,
he said
Shamsud din urged the crowd
to work together and support eac h
other m an effort to make positiv
changes
We came here todav to show a
' little solidarity and support, and
that's good because you don't see
it that much unless it's at an or
ganized event like this, he said
"brother King tried to make a
change." he said "You might
think things have c hanged since
he was here, (nil things haven't
PHOtoOy Ait-r rs
Student Ishaq Shamsud-dm initiates the MLK. Jr candlelight vigil with a
motivating speech Wednesday night at Johnson Hall
See MLK Calendar, p. 12
tli.it much Km ism is still around
Murtin Luther King hud .1
dream, but where is dreaming go
mg to get vim," Shamsuddin said
We need to act on those dreams
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slims trig of l >111 versify Assm mlr;
l'rofrssor Julia) Lcsnge's iloi urnrn
!.ir\ projei ! on sliulmls of color. .1
perform.nn r of original compost
lions m honor of King ami .1 film
■itxiul g.iv filar k men
Suspected rapist
accused in case
By Tammy Batey
t RepofltK
Michael Patrick Ryan
()nr liny iiflcr ii man
was .h i nseil of raping
an tIt year-old Univer
sity student, the Millie
man Is siispec ted to
has e raped an at quiiln
lam e In Boise, liialio,
polite salil Tuesday
University student
v.t ii hael I’atrti k K\iin.
II. Is i harmed With the
Saturday morning rape
III a t hil V ersil V fresh
m .1 n . I, ti gene poI Ii e
said Ksan burrowed a
friend's i ar shortly alter
the 1 a in attar k and
left town An Oregon warrant lor his arrest li.is Iteen is
SUl'li
Buis,- pnlit v Di'ii i ini' i.an< e Anderson s.utl .>i■ Idaho
warrant lor KyanA arrest would hi' issued shortly in
i unntK lion with thi’ rape o! .1 Boise resident
According to Boise polite. IrientK ol the 22 -year old
[to 1M' vielsiii said Kvan hIuiwi iI up in Idaho C ity about
i .10 p m Saturday w ith a 1 ar that matched lint dest rip
lion given by Kugene point' 1 In- wimimiA Irielids also
said they knew Kvan before the rape Kvan lull their
. ompany about 2 p in Sunday siiymjj in- was returning
to Eugene to attend i lasses .it the University, they said
Boise polite said they believe Kvan instead Went to
!tie rape vll tun's home about I p m
I.>rn to SUSPECT Pane .}
Bookstore board to discuss pornography controversy
j Suggestion box comments,
Men Against Rape want
Playboy, Penthouse off
bookstore shelves
By Lisa Millegan
Emaraia As social# Edik*
To some. I’luyboy and lJvnthousv mag
azines plait! on University Bookstore
shelves directly increases violence
against women To others, the journals
removal would lit- nothing short of cen
sorship
More and more. University Bookstore
customers are filling the store's sugges
tion box with their opinions on whether a
college bookstore should carry pornogra
phy A sample of comments
"Please remove your selection of skin
mags 1 can avoid it but I don't think I
should have to Pornography
dehumanizes, objectifies, degrades and
disgusts Articles may be good. but the
pictures are not Can we find a magu/ine
which has good articles and doesn't de
grade anyone7''
"Keep Playboy and Penthouse PC
(politically correct) intimidation should
not be v ululated
You sell magazines that refer lo worn
rn us bunnies .mil ju ts .uni shows pic
lures of them in subjugated positions
Would you sell N.i/i magazines th.it
showed pictures ol lynched minorities'"
More pornography. |de.ise Wi cunt
allow the thought ol police running this
plat e
In response to such comments, the
store's hotird of directors h.is decided to
hold .1 meeting tonight to de.il with cus
turners' com erns
The meeting w ill be held at 7 (i m at
the Wesley Center Conference Room.
123b Kincaid St
"The board is very concerned about
hearing from students, faculty and staff,
said )im Williams, bookstore general
manager "We know it's important to a
number of people and we don't want to
minimize that
The board of directors includes two fai
ulty members, eight students and one
general University employee
Nancy Crufts, who is a buyer for the
bookstore, said the St) copies of Playboy
and Penthouse on the shelves have sold
out the last three to four months Crafts
-.iiiii she is nut responsible (nr deciding
whit It magazines arc sold al the bonk
store
Williams vvlio has been m Ins position
lor Mi years, said the bookstore has not
bad this many c omplaints about tin- mug
e/mes sun e the early l'MilK
At that time, the then co-captain of the
football team led a campaign to remove
I’IuvIm)V t)cc ause of vvbat lie viewed as its
offensive treatment of women
According to an Oregon Daily Einvnihl
article, the bookstore board of direc tors
rejected the proposal because of the mag
a/ine's "high-level literary content” ami
liecause its removal could lead to further
censorship
Coincidentally, the 1992 campaign to
remove pornographic magazines from the
bookstore is also led hv men
Since tins fall. Men Against Rape has
sent several letters to the bookstore, artic
dialing their view that such magazines
have severely damaging effects
"Roughly one-half ol the women in the
University community will be sexually or
physically assaulted during their lives,"
wrote MAR co-directors Hill Brotzman
and David Peterson In a letter to Wil
liams "Virtually all of them are subjected
lu unwanted sexual attention ranging
from i atcalls lo rape Pornography camsis
11• n11 v and repeatedly ( hamplons ihis sort
ol behavior
Ilrol/maii s.oil In' defines pornography
.is "misogynist rmilxn.il which is hateful
towiiril women .mil objet Idles women
firot/.man said he also considers f’/ai
flirl. which ti'.itnri's mail' models. pornog
raphy, lull he is not lighting fur the maga
zine's removal
l’hiybo\ and /Vm/)nu.%e iire particularly
harmful to women because of the literary
arlic les. whit h are included, hi' said
" I lii' pit torial sections and the car
toons depir ting women In molestation
situations or other situations are also
among these oduc ational articles, so the
magazine sort of equates the two as ar
ceptalile or on the sume level. Itrot/man
saiil
Although he does not believe In forced
censorship. Hrot/man said he wants to
encourage the bookstore board to make
responsible choit.es when selecting mate
rials
"We’re not trying to make them remove
the magazines." he said "We're trying to
Turn to MAGS. Page 4
HIGH TECH
Chernobyl: Univer
. sity researchers aim
to verity years of
misinfomation.
Sm DISASTER, Pag* 5
EVERY 76 YEARS?
Owner Richard Aiello said his 'Halley's
Comet' faded into oblivion from a decline
in video-arcade interest, denial of a bank
loan for expansion and high rent.
Sm CLOSURE, Pag* 6
M.L.K. DAY
1 002
VITIES
Day two of Martin Luther
King Jr. celebration week
includes activities throughout
the Eugene-Springfield area.
Sm CALENDAR. P*o# 12
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