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n WfUNPERlAND Mh STREET A PU8UC HARKET v(m:o ,,, W?l^3 683-8464 viwoAWEinm' VAiU t ffcrvt:* P\ A/A - '* ■/ • Great Food • Relaxing Atmosphere • Affordable Prices 19th & Agate • 683-6661 HILYARD S,M‘T£ • Fresh Sandwiches • Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl • Espresso & Gourmet Coffee • The most complete collection of Micro and Imported Beers • Convenient near campus location I 500 OFF Any Regular Sandwich Not valid with any other of!rt l spue. 1/2 HILYARD5T ttA"S 1698 Hilyard St 683-1358/683-4191 GDI: DISI’LAY ADVERTISING 346-3712 Keynote speech to link faith, social policy Frtederich von Carp Ortgon .fl*y < ewaW Bishop L Lynn Brown, keynote speaker of tonight’s Mult (enter • ammemomtive program, will address the inter*** tton of religion* faith and social policy. Brown fir-st worked alongside the He'. Dr Martin Luther King while at a Georgia seminary in ! 'itiii and again during the i‘«>« sanitation worker*’ strike in Memphis Kmg s rtan-vioient phi kwophy and his emphasis on eon* notnic justice Brown explained, hold special value for today’s society We must be cognisant of both the spiritual and social ulti mutely your soul will return to God. but remember that God so loved the world that he gave his only son. Surely there must he some good in the world worth fighting for," Brown said Dr. King engaged the inter locking cruelties of violence, racism and poverty We must also do this The question is how w ill you engage them ' Will you do it VS I! h V toieni. e ’ Will mu do .• with hatred? Or will you do it with love' Martin Luther Kmg was non-violent Me engaged it with love ” Brown, who is presiding prelate of the Ninth Kpisi opal District of the Christian Methodist Lpiscopal Ghurth. leads a congregation spread over seven Western states He is involved with the Southern Christian leadership (onfwrwnre, the South Central Los Angeles Organizing Committee. the NAACP. the Urban League and the Koumenu.ol Task Forte to Revitalize South Central Los Angeles "l was with I hr. King when hi* uttered hi*, immortal words, '1 have h«*en to the mountaintop.'" Brown recalled ”We have to go hat k and listen to what he said Most of us look to his first w ords Too often we forget his last words, 'There are dark and diffi cult days ahead,’” Brown perceives that darkness and difficulty ln« rousing with the rt*< ent events .11 ross the nation "We are bet uming a two-tier society, one rich and one poor After the Nov. ft ei«M tion, (woplr have almost written off the poor est There are many t ode words for racism ’Counterculture' — counter to the Anglo majority Brother Newt is trying to play harmonious music by playing tin* white keys only You have to play the keys of color, too," Brown said, referring to Newt Gingrich ' Martin [.other Kingaune from a family that manifested dogged determinism He thought it showed some kind of cowardice if you don't finish what you start liven if then kill you " Brown recalls Dr King s last months, when they marched together in Memphis When some < n il rights demonstrators turned violent. Brown and other followers whisked Dr King to safety Courtafv l^hotc Bishop E. Lynn Brown will speak about the Intersection of faith and social policy tonight at the Hult Center. His speech begins at 7 p.m. "All of a sudden we had win dows being broken, breaking glass, and wo throw Dr, King in the ' ar Usiiuse wo though! it was plot Hut ho said if he started a march he liked to finish it He vowed he’d come bark " Dr King did, of course, return to Memphis tlic following April. Prevented from finishing the march by an assassin's bullet. f)r. King made for his beliefs what Brown called "the ultimate sac rifice.” New class examines race, media and the law Kaly Soto &00an At<ht SftmtwM Some professors pist teach, but some professors can make the curriculum come alive Good professor* i an set fire to students imaginations', and make them want to devour as much information as they can about the subject If Dennis Greene's interview is any indi« ation. he is definite ly a good professor Greene, who is teaching a course at the law school titled Mass Media. Law, and the Dia logue of Race, came to the Uni versity via a very strange route. Dennis Greene is « founding member of the mush al group Sha Na N'a. a former vie e presi dent of Columbia Pictures, the president of l.onov'Greene Films and a playwright. So what would bring a man who traveled the world for ts years with Shn Na Na and played the original Woodstix k to the University campus to leach law? Well, according to Greene, that was the plan all along "I had planned on going to law si hool at an early age. but -—--rrrr. Dennis Greene, a professor at the law school, discusses race relations as portrayed in the media and as they exist in the legal system them I sort of put it off lx* ause of othor activities like music i had decided to go into motion pic ture work and I felt that the best kind of education I could get to protect myself would lx* a legal education,” Greene's class, as its title sug gests, concentrates on the aspect THE BOOK FAIR Art Prints • Contemporary Authors • Sci-fi “Browser’s Paradise* Natural Cookery • Mystery Auto Repair Books • Sci-fi Used books for every interest and age 1409 Oak St. 343-3033 Open Mon-Thu'S 10 00 5 30 Fri i vo until ? 00 • Sat 10 00 5 00 • Since yj k 1966 Free Parking of racial issues in law and in the mass media. The class is struc tured as an open forum Readings are assigned, and students are then expected to participate in discussions of the readings in (lass In developing the curriculum for the class it was Greene's hop# that students would come away from the ( lass with a better understanding of rat e relations in general and of themselves in particular "Groups who have been his torically victimised by mass media and stereotypical depic tions have to think in terms of self-definition. “Self-definition along with cultural terms and using that as a vehicle to sort of empower themselves." However. Greene said that oven though the ( lass is about race relations, no one needs to feel that their lack of exposure to other rates and cultures is a handicap to them In that wav, Greene said his ( lass truly is a dialogue. Before coming to the Univer sity this winter Greene was teaching at the City College of New York His ( lasses included the Social History of the Enter tainment Industry, which he taught previously at Yale, and Mass Media and the Conflict of Power, Having just finished teaching in Now York. Oregon's debate over multiculturalism is rather foreign to Greene “One goes to school and pacs good money to be exposed to now ideas and new people. It enables them to become smarter, and to get a job that will utilize the knowledge they have at i) aired I think there is great value to expo sure to a broad range of cultural issues and identities " He also said that all classes that fall under the multicultural curriculum title should he of value and not just token class es. “Those ( lassos should speak to people and educate them" Greene also said that multi cultural curriculum, like civil rights legislation. ”... can’t be given (tie back-handed treat ment so that at a certain point it (.an be pulled off the menu because it didn't work. That would be a crime. Because once you pay the dues just like we've paid the dues for civil rights it is important for people to live by those laws . So the people who lived and died to create positive social change were not dis graced" FIND STUFF IN THE ODE CLASSIFIEDS (movies & shows, personal messages, computers, real estate, job opportunities, and more)