Former NEA chairman to
begin art lecture series
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Associate Editor
The man who worked in the eye of a national storm over art. ob
scenity and public funding of controversial works will be the first
speaker in the inaugural season of the University’s Museum of Art
Lec.turo Series.
John Frohnmayer, former chairman of the National Endowment
for the Arts, will discuss "Arts and the Economy — A Critical
Union,” Friday, Sept, tl at 7:30 p.m In Beall Concert Hall on cam
pus.
His talk will be the first In a series of four lectures sponsored by
the Friends of the Museum of Art The series was designed to pro
vide a new dimension to the cultural life of the community
through public discussions of the creative process and the world of
I his is tho lirst year tho se
ries has taken place, but if it
is successful, it may become
an annual event. The series
was conceived of by John
Colo, president of Tho
Friends of the Museum of
Art.
Tickets will be available on
a subscription basis at S45
for the series. A reserved
seating series ticket is S05,
with S50 of It donated to tho
Museum of Art. Tickets for
individual lectures will also
bo on salo. Tickets cun be
purchased at the Hull Center
beginning Aug. 10.
All four lectures will be
John Frohnmayer
followed by a quostlon-and-answor session.
Prohnmayer. bom In Medford and the brother of University law
school Dean Dave Prohnmayer, was appointed NI.'A head in 1989
by President George Bush. Prohnmayer was forced to resign three
months ago in the midst of controversy over whether public money
should be used to support artistic projects that some see as obscene
or pornographic.
Currently, Prohnmayer is writing a boot, about the issues affect
ing arts, liberty and community. It is set to bo published next
spring and will ulso detail his perspective on arts funding feud
After Prohnmayer’s talk, the remaining lecturers include
• Helen Abbott, director of publications for the Seattle Art Muse
um, and Bruce Miller, acquisitions editor of Interactive Home Sys
tems.
Their lecture, "Tomorrow’s Computer and Yesterday’s Art. is
set for Dec. It.
• Neill Archer Roan, new executive vice president of the Center for
tho Arts in Escondido, Calif., and former marketing and program
ming director for Eugene's Hull Center.
His speech, "Some of My Best Friends Are Artists, is scheduled
for Jan. 8.
• Mason Wiley, co-author of Inside Oscar — 'Ihe Unofficial History
of the Academy Awards and contributor to Entertainment Weekly.
TV Guide, GQ, The Now York Times and New York Daily News
’’Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Oscars But
Wore Too Polite to Ask,” is sot for March 26.
For more information, call the Museum of Art at 346-3027.
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By Rene DeCair
Emerald Associate Editor
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“A lot of people will try to
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That may have lieon true
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votes to shut the school be
cause the financial crunch is
greater this year. A straightfor
ward legislative victory for op
ponents of the clinic isn't like
ly. Kcp. Carl Hosticka. D-liu
gone, who is also a University
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ation bill last yoar always vote
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believe in order to appease
these people who never sup
port us when it counts any
way," he said. “Why throw thu
clinic overboard to make peo
ple happy?"
Even if a legislative victory is
improbable, the dohuto itself
could damage the clinic's
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"(Johnson) can exert pressure
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able by talking about It all the
time, generally making people
uncomfortable to the point
where the University or some
body could say,' OK. we'll cut
tho environmental law clinic
just to got this guy off our
back’," Hosticka said.
Signs of a political struggle
within tho school emerge on
the issue of the clinic's cost.
University president Myles
Brand gave deans and depart
ment heads the option of cut
ting sub-programs from their
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porcent cut.
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Frohnmayer said.
“The environmental law pro
gram is our most expensive
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Mark Thomas, president of
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The quality of the
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law) program has
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Professor Michael Axline
ly calculating the clinic's costs.
The controversy has to do with
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wouldn't say how much the en
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Recent graduate John Sam
ple. who heads LAW, said he
first heard about the high cost
of the clinic when the school
leamod it would have to make
a 20-port:ent cut.
It's impossible to say whether
the clinic will take a partial cut,
a total cut. or emerge unscathed
from the budget battles. Tho
clinic’s opponents may win
their case outside tho court
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