FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1992
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 93. ISSUE 165
Blowin’ in the wind
PHoto by Job*
Sophomore Lynn Perrin and seniors Carol Pernn and Gabnefle Hammond (from left) engage in
an impromptu cantaioupc-seed-spitting contest Thursday outside the EMU The mercury peaked
at 75 Thursday and is expected to reach the low 80s Over the weekend
Talk addresses
minority conflict
j Speaker says the media are partly
responsible for the clash between Af
rican and Korean Americans
By Daralyn Trappy
Emerald Associate f cWor_
Modi,i sensationalism and r.u iMii within tin- polin'
fori e and justice system significantly conlriltuled to
dashes Imtween Korean and African Americans after
lire Rodney king beating vordit t, saiil a Korean Ameri
can instructor Wednesday
Smni k Cho, an etfinir studies I’ti 1> candidate at
tin- University of California Berkley who is doing re
seart li on black/Korean conflicts, spoke to a racially
mixed crowd of about UK) at the University Cho said
there are many reasons for and many potential solu
tions to the ongoing tensions
Cho pointed out that much of the media turned their
attention away from the black/white conflicts, such .is
the recent I. A police tiouting of Rodney king that was
the crux of llie riots, to I he biack/Korean conflic ts that
were part of the outcome
That sort ol turn has happened Indore. Cho said, and
it lakes attention away from the blur k white Issues
“It's no mini idem e that the (ranting of ln< idents be
tween African Americans and Korean Americans in
tensifies during black and white cunllii Is." t ilio said
Although a substantial percentage of the stores that
were looted were owned by Latinos, the Latino voice
was rarely heard through it all, Cho said the media
instead portrayed Korean Americans as gun toting
Turn to CLASH. Pago 3
New movement frees
men from stereotypes
□ Growing groups challenge societal expecta
tions, seek to put men in touch with their feel
ings and regain ‘maleness’
By Tammy Batey
Emerald Reporter_
Thoy’ro mad us hell and they're not going to lake it anymore
They’re sick and tired of society’s stereotypes of their gender and
the limited roles they are expected to play in society. Ihey want
equality.
Those statements are now just as likely to come not from wom
en, but from a growing number of men Involved in a movement tar
geted at "regaining maleness."
The men's movement is “exploding," said counselor Brandt Stu
art. who facilitates a five-week group titled "Men and Change
Stuart said men became more sensitive and nurturing as a result
of the women's movement during the 1970s As men changed to
meet the needs of women, however, they lost part of their maleness
and became "soft men.” he said,
••Men had to deny their maleness to u certain extent," lie said
"We became more sensitive, but wo denied tin: powerful, sirong
part of ourselves."
Men must learn to experience their "dark side” in positive wavs,
not through drinking and abusing women, Stuart said
"If men can gel into their anger and fool the pain and the hurt
they can become more sensitive." Stuart said. "Men arnn t taught
to embrace the more painful parts of themselves Men are taught to
Turn to MOVEMENT. Page 4
Student, editor face off over race issues
By Kirsten Lucas
Emerald Reporter
The recent Los Angelos ri
ots, as well us persistent
inner-city poverty and vio
lence. tiro symptoms ol a pro
found moral and spiritual cri
sis facing American* today
and the U S. government does
not have the cure.
Thai was the evaluation of
Uavid Bernstein, editor of L)i
varsity - A critical journal of
rate and culture, who engager!
students Thursday in a dia
logue about issues ranging
from riots and race relations
to the merits of affirmative ac
tion aod public housing.
"Wo have a situation where
it's not Just black Americans
are doing worse and white
Americans are doing l>eiler,"
Bernstein said.
"We're all doing pretty
lousy. And the government
solutions that we’ve been try
ing on and on and on. ad nau
seam, for the last 25 years
don't screen to be doing any
thing about it."
Although only a handful of
people showed ti|> for Horn
stein's appearance. just silancl
everyone in ultundanco got
into it with Hemstem, n 2‘t
year-old University ol Mury
lunil graduate
After briefly introducing his
own basically conservative
stance. Bernstein shared the
stage with Kric Ward of tlui
Black Student Union
Ward and Bernstein split
sharply in their views about
the nature of the L A. riots
The majority of the people
arrested during the L.A. riots,
Bernstein said, had criminal
records, "and the first places
robbed were gun stores
"This is not a revolution.
Essentially, what we have urn
a bunch of people whose par
ents didn't spank them when
they were kids." Bernstein
said
Ward said wiial happened
in L A. and across the country
was in fact a rebellion
"l think people were lash
ing out in ways that they were
not able to fbefore). It wasn't
mob violence,” he said
Ward further countered
L___j._ .mm -M.a . - i
David Bernstein
Bernstein's chastisement of
Ihi: rioters and looters l»y con
tending that throughout
American history criminal bo
havior inis proved offoctivo
and oven lucrative.
Surprisingly Bernstein and
Ward did Find some common
ground, particularly in the
urea of educational reform in
the inner-cities and the need
for community-based black
leadership
1
THAT FACE
The familiar face of
Mother Alien is back on
the big screen in Alien
3, but it's not enough to
save this flick.
See MOVIES. Page 5
ADD A DOZEN
The three men jailed in the beating of a
white trucker during the L.A. riots were
charged Thursday in attacks on 12 other
people. Prosecutors called them a "major
factor" in starting the riots.
3 See THREE. Page 4
QUALIFIED
Duck Kim Hyatt threw
I an automatic qualifier
I in the javelin Thursday
] night at Hayward Field.
i See HYATT, Page 9