Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, January 19, 1996, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextReading honors more than holiday ■ CELEBRATION: N .-* • •• •. A* Awcan literary works are read m honor of the memory of Martin Luther King Jt By Kristina Rudinska* The spirit and belief* of Martin Luther King fr wm* itN Thursday night in th»» Knight library Browsing Room as the University Student Literary Sodatjr sponsored a reading of African American author*. original poetry and choral codings to rat ebctte Martin Lather King Jr Day The evening started with a presentation from Professor Ionise Wenhng highlighting the life of Sarah Rice, an «?• year old rural Alabama school teacher who described the hardship* of teaching poor black students during the t920’s VVestling played a part of the voice history of Sarah Rice later publisher! in an autobiography compiled by Westling and Rice entitled //** Included Ah T R Hummer, direc tor of the <restive writing program, read an original poem emitted *Tha Antichrist In Arkansas" stressing the idea that "mysticism is deeply rooted in racism.” and the horrors that hate groups have inflicted on others due to their own fallacies and ignorance Poet and Author Durrianne laus recited work* by Forrest Hamer, another poet and author of Call and Response, which enlightened the crowd from * dutimtl* Afro an Amaru an volts on the injurte* of rw-icm and the fear that It woks* tn its victim* If rat* dtwanT nwllv explain then how do we •xptain the feeling we have about race," Hamer a*k* in hi* uism ' (ktldaberg Narrative an " tau* *i«o read aloud her own view on the ditparags* of return in her poem entitled 'Jimmy and Joe One of the moat interval ing event* of the evening #« a choral reading performed by five graduate vtudsnu from the Creative Writing Department The** five overlapping reader* «*pro***d the humiliation of ravt*m and the rofee t ion of thair own bodlH due to aocfMal procure* and prop* diis The choral reading truly »mph»*tx*d what it i* like “to be »n*ide different walla, a theme which roou urrod throughout the whole evening a* tl»« audience livtened to different view* of how racism dehumanize* the individual and diatom cultural di varsity The evening of poeiry and reflection gave a votes to iho** victim* of dlMrimination who endure the in|uri*a of pretudice from the lint* of the Civil War lo prevent day *11 nation* The Uni verasty Literary Society paid homage to Martin Luther King Jr by enunciating the injoaticaa of racial di«t r tmmatton anil allow ing then* who have a hi*tory to tell the opportunity and arena to express their emotion* and fee I mg* Amazon: Coalition distrusts the University ■ Continued from Page 1 raisons. Dave Hrthf. attorney for both 82-venr-old defendant Martha Ml and the Save Amazon Coalition, claimed after the ver dii t that the defendant* were not actually standing in the street and therefore could not have been blocking traffic He also claimed that a stay, which block# the demolition of the complex, wa* in effect "They did not (relieve they did anything illegal." Bohr *ai«f Their action falls under the choke of evil* law. which allow* citizen* to violate one law to uphold another, he *aid While Judge G*m commend* »d the defendant* for their con cern for the community, he cbastined them for "demonizing the U of O" and for thinking that "institutions are out In get them " *"l think civil disobedience has a place in society, but it ha# to twr in situations where there is no remedy “ be Mid But the Amazon Coalition i loims it hat reason to distrust the University Dozens of peo ple spent hundreds of hours negotiating with the University in sn attempt to save the build ings. said Nancy Forrest, the i hair of the Save Amazon Coali tion The University acted as if it were willing to consider their propositions, then changed Us behavior, she said Shortly before Carp's state ment. defendant Suzanne O’Shea's attorney. Dan Stutter, also an attorney for the Save Amazon Coalition, told the fudge that O'Shea hod spent more than a year negotiating with the University on itehalf of the Amazon complex. Hombuckh- ittl \V« did what we thought Was right The University and the city worked together to deprive pet* people of housing,” Speaker: Past mistakes must be corrected. Chow said ■ Continued from Page 1 of the world f'Jwm also dated that the violence of the Weal against the indigenous people of a to hum Ua lama normali/ed and Internationa tired Another reason for the weal Hwminii more itnpor tent U from the “misplace merit of the Wear a* the uni* vernal center." tdiow said Chow [MM«d site question. "Why should we use west ern theories to study Asian cultures'" "This leads to racial inequities that seem to reproduce and perpetuate themselves." die said Chow stated that it is our resjMuisibilitv to try to cor met the mistakes of the past “When w» view culture we are in fact coming tau i to history ." she said CENTENNIAL COIN LAUNDRY • air conditioned • clean • safe • well-lit • 4 Doable Loaders (sleeping bags, bedspreads, comforters, etc.) • 30 Speed Queen Top Loaders - 22 minute cycle •15 commercial 301b. Dryers Daily: 7:30-11:00 (last load 9:30) 687 W. Centennial Blvd/ 1.5 mile* east of Autzen • Springfield. 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