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An independent newspaper Volume 99, Issue 86 SPORTS Walk in the park The Oregon women's basketball team walked away with a 23-point win at Ore gon State after leading by 21 at the half PAGE 11 ENTERTAINMENT Digital solution? TCI offers a new digital cable pack age, but cable staples are noticeably missingfrom the channel lineup PAGE 7 FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1998 TODAY Judy Yung will give a lecture on Asian American history at 12:30 in the EMU Ben Linder Room. WEATHER Today Fog High 51. Low 38. Saturday Showers 1 ligh 49. Low 36. W: Psychology major Mcija Wolfe browses through the wide selection of books at Mother Kali's. AMANDA COWAN/Emerald Mother Kali’s survives 23 years The women’s specialty bookstore faces stiff competition from chains like Barnes and Noble By Nicole Krista I Higher Education Reporter The University of Oregon Bookstore spe cializes in text books. Smith Family Books specializes in used books. Mother Kali’s specializes in women’s books. “We specialize in women's issues, so I think we have more in those areas than anybody else,” said E.A. “Izzie” Harbaugh, current manager of the store. As the only women's bookstore in Eu gene, Mother Kali’s has provided books that meet women’s needs for the last 23 years. Harbaugh has witnessed the evolu tion of the non-profit corporation for the last 20 years. Mother Kali's, named after the Hindu goddess of birth and death, was started by three women, Ellen Greenlaw, Muff Pi cariello and Devi Hunt. The store first opened in a tiny house on West 11th Av enue and Lawrence Street. It featured a women’s lending library, news about com munity events and book readings. “I think it’s nothing short of miraculous that they could keep the thing afloat,” Har Turn to STORE, Page 6 (( The whole books industry> ... is a hard way to make 10 cents. ^ E.A. “Izzie" Hartoaugh Store manager Torrey backs youth curfew despite critics Mayor Jim Torrey’s proposed daytime curfew for youth has raised objections from the ACLU By Tricia Duryee Community Reporter Mayor Jim Torrey had no idea what he was getting into when he first announced a possible daytime curfew ordinance. Not only has the idea been unpopular with those under the age of 18, who could be picked off the street and returned to school by an othcer, but also with the American Civil Liberties Union, school superintendents and others. Torrey has also found that in order for the cur few to work, and for everyone to be happy, oth er provisions have to be TORREY made, such as a truant facility or an alter native school that would cater to kids who can’t or won't go to school for a number of reasons. “This has gotten bigger than 1 ever thought it was going to," Torrey said. However, he doesn’t see the $278,000 plan being implemented until Sept. 1, which allows him plenty of time to per suade opponents that this is the best way to keep kids in school and out of trouble. He said he is expecting to go at it full force until someone offers him a better al ternative. "I’ll back off of this when some one comes up to me and tells me that they can ensure me that these kids will have an opportunity of education and protection," Torrey said. Despite his good intentions, the ACLIJ argues that the curfew would be an in fringement on the rights of youth. "We are very concerned about it,” said Polly Nelson, education director for the ACLU of Oregon. “Teenagers have a right. Just because they aren't a certain class of Turn to CURFEW, Page 5 Harvard professor addresses future of race relations in America Professor Cornel West argues that the United States has a history> of white supremacy By Kari Thorene Higher Education Reporter “Race remains America’s rawest nerve,” Harvard University Professor Cornel West told a standing-room only crowd in the EMU Ballroom Thursday afternoon. "But it can’t be understood without being linked to other forms of evil.” West, author of the 1993 bestseller “Race Matters,” as well as 12 other books, spoke at the University as the 1998 Robert and Bever ly Lewis Lecturer in the Humanities, and also as the last event in a series commemo rating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. West’s speech, “Restoring Hope,” ad dressed the future of race relations in Ameri ca in the context of the history of American racism. “Let us not confuse this with cheap PC [politically correct] chit-chat," West said. The United States has a I strong history ot white su premacism, he said, which he traced from slavery to today through homages to anti-racist activists. He included in them Har riet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Martin Luther Kino Ir., among others. WEST “To talk about race,” West said, “raises the question of what kind of person we want to be.” Amid this white supremacist history, West said, is the insistence that the United States was borne out of innocence and the contradiction that it is an example of free dom in the modern world. The contemporary reflection of this con tradiction, West said, was President Clin ton’s assertion in the State of the Union ad dress that these are “good times in America.” “For who?” West asked. “Who do you have in mind, Mr. President?” He cited sta tistics that the top 2 percent in the country are doing very well Financially, but that every time wages increase for the bottom 40 percent the Federal Reserve Board adjusts inflation to keep them poor. “1 don’t believe in conspiracy theories,” West said, “but I do believe in coordinated activity at the top.” With hands either fluttering constantly at the sides of the podium or waving in the air, West told the audience that American white supremacy and racism is interconnected with patriarchy, corporate dominance, ho mophobia and ecological destruction. As for the 21st century, West said he is not optimistic. "What will serve as the counter vailing democratic forces against the profit driven, fast-paced capitalism that could eas ily reinforce the worst in each and every one of us? That could easily be a nightmare even more dark than the 20th century?” West asked the audience. But West also stressed hope, even though "there are no guarantees.” “I am not only going down with a fight,” he said. “I am going down fighting with the memory of the foremothers and forefathers that came before me, and I am thoroughly convinced that they did not go down in vain.”
