Oregon Daily
UESDAY. JUNE 2. 1992
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University junior Melissa Bagg photographs her architecture studio term project "We re done tomorrow and
all of our hairs will stop being pulled out." fellow architecture student Lyn Travis said
Activists trace racist roots of LA riots
□ Black leaders participate
in a University panel discus
sion on racial unrest.
By Matt Bender
Emerald Conlnbulof
The recent riots in Los Angeles were
the result of terrible living conditions for
poor blacks, two black community lead
ers told a crowd of about 200 people
Monday night in the EMU Fir Room
Ron Herndon, an activist from Port
land, and Wanda Coleman, an award
winning writer from Los Angeles, gave
their views on racism and the recent ri
ots In a panel discussion sponsored hy
the University's Peace Studies Program
Coleman started the evening off by
reading some of her poetry. Her readings
dealt with understanding and con trad l( !
ing racial prejudice.
Prejudice is something dial Coleman
said she has dealt with all of her life
Coleman, who grew up in the Watts dis
trict of Los Angeles, said she still has
problems with racism today.
"I still have altercations in restaurants
and shops.” Coleman said. "I'm just try
ing to buy a hamburger and all of a sud
den i huvu a problem."
Coleman. who won a Guggcnhuim
Award for fu r (mriry. said things in Los
Angulos am mj iiaii that soitui filark pen
pin see jail as .1 vacation from dm reali
tics of llu- lives of poverty lluty h ad
"When I Was u kid, jull was a bad
thing. Now it’s a status symlrol, Golc
man said
Coleman said tilings arc still fostering
in south-central 1-os Angeles and tin- ri
ots nniIri happen again.
Sint also criticized Los Angeles Mayor
Toni Bradley, telling the audience that
just because Bradley was black didn't
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Springfield
moves to
save jobs
jThe Springfield City Coun
cil initiates efforts to prevent
job discrimination in the
wake of Measure 20 08
By Germ Koepptng
f mtK.ikl Reporter
A Springfield City Councilor, respond
ing to passage of an unli-homosuxuul
rights Initiative, luunched efforts Mon
day night to prohibit discrimination
against guv and lesbian city employees
During Monduv night's city council
meeting. Kulf Waiters suggested the i tty
council use a clause in the initiative al
low mg the city to protect city employees
from discrimination based on sexual
preference
The Springheld measure, titled 20-0H,
allows tiie city to mandate that in em
ployment decisions only factors related
to the joh are to be considered
Walters, who supports the initiative,
said he was simply taking advantage of
that < lause to allay some fours the initia
tive has at used
The council unanimously supported
Walter's plan, and after discussion It was
decided to leave the matter to Mike Kel
ley, the Springfield city manager. Kelley
is in charge of all administrative rules,
which include those that uffi-cl city em
ployees
Kelley said he would try hy next week
to draft a rule like the one Walters sug
gested
"I see it as a healing issue," he said
Others believe 20 (lit cun he modified
to matnliiln the status <|uo, while not in
fringing on the civil rights of gays and
lesbians
Jesse Maine, a candidate for Spring
held city council, said during the moet
ing that he would start a petition drive
that would repeal 20-011
The new initiative would stale that for
a group of people to he lislisl as a pro
tected ( lass it would need a vote of the
people.
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Student artists combine comics to publish ‘Panels’
By Karen Engels
Emerald Contributor
Their names have bcscome
campus household words —
son of.
Their concerns range from ar
tistic pretentiousness and ro
mance to sociopolitical con
cerns and beer.
Hudson Van Curen. Oscar
the Freshman. Weasel, the Ulti
mate Boycotter and other car
tobn characters gracing the
pages of campus publications
this year recently met In a sin
gle publication.
“Panels: UO Cartooning
1(191-92," a 97-page comic col
laboratlon, complete with color
cover, will go on sale at the
University Bookstore and Em
erald City Comics, next to
Smith's Bcxjkstore, somewhere
between the end of dead week
and the beginning of finals
week, said editor Michael E
Russell. The creation* of 12
campus artists, known and not
so-known, are Included
Kussett. creator of Hudson
Van Curen, began pondering
the book idea after reading
"The New Comics Anthology,”
which he calls "the best oftn
tcllectual new comics.”
Thus inspired. Russell con
tacted several fellow campus
artists tu collaborate and create
"Panels." Soverul of them had
already combined forces to err
ata two two-page "Cartoon
jam" strips for Oregon Voice
earlier this year.
All the artists Kussell con
tacted were optimistic about
the (took, ho said.
The resulting "Panels" Is an
eclectic mix of cartoon art com
plied from campus publica
tions, dusty portfolios and
dorm room walls.
Kussell said he also wanted
"to gel Hudson out to those two
or three fans" who didn’t know
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Campus cartoonists (from latt) Naal Skorpan, Michaal Pus sail and
Kraig Norris ara contributing to "Panals," an anthology ol Univar
sity studants' cartoons.