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The Oregon Humanities Center presents: Michael Hobart Professor of History Bryant College in a lecture entitled “Numeracy and the Rise of the Analytical Vision of Knowledge" Wednesday, June 3, 1998 4:00 p.m. 330 Gilbert Hall Lecture is free and open to the public. Reception will follow. For more information or disability accommodations, call Leslie Wright at 346-3934. for your BOOKS! For books we need for the upcoming SUMMER & FALL terms we'll pay you 60*24) of the current student price. And... YOU Can win $20 Gash (Donated by MBS Textbook Exchange) If you're selling books where the alarm clock rings. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 346-4331 • 895 E. 13th www.uobookstore.com M-F 7:45-6 Sat 10-6 Sun 12-6 Texas Instruments Calculator Buyback* Models TI-82, TI-83, TI-85 & TI-86 ONLY! ‘Calculator Buyback is Upstairs with the Book Buyback. Must have Manual and Cable. Library: Group works on a ballot measure ■ Continued from Page 1 years. City officials have yet to deter mine how much funding the ten tative ballot measure will call for. However, Eugene Public Informa tion Officer Phil Weiler said the specifics of the measure will be determined when the mayor’s Li brary Improvement Committee presents its findings before the City Council on July 8. Weiler said some of the specifics still to be determined include the size of the main facil ity as well as the possibility of funding for additional library branches. He added that one op tion is the construction of a 100,000-square-foot facility, 80,000 square feet of which could be used for library purpos es and the remainder for tempo rary city offices. Some community members are jumping at the opportunity to pro mote the passage of such a ballot measure in the November elec tion. Bill Sullivan, an organizer of ABLE, A Better Library for Every one, said his group has worked to see the city fund the new facility and to ensure that a ballot mea sure for library improvements passes in the upcoming election. Although city officials guaran teed funding for a new facility, ABLE will work to make sure there is enough funding for the li brary to expand its services in fu ture years. Sullivan said ABLE will be transformed into a political action committee to make sure the tenta tive measure passes handily. “Our sense is that people are feeling very positive about this," he said. “We’re planning a large campaign.” A large campaign might be im portant in facilitating the passage of the measure, which will re quire a single majority of votes in the November election. In primary and special elec tions, such a measure would have to be approved under the double majority provision. This rule re quires a measure to pass only if it is approved by a majority of regis tered voters and if 50 percent or more of the voting public turns out at the polls. Although Sullivan said he is confident voters will approve the proposed library funding mea sure, he said ABLE will work to put it on future ballots if it fails this November. In the meantime, Sullivan said the organization is just happy the City Council voted to finance a new facility. “This is something to cele brate,” he said. “If we were not a bunch of bookish librarians, we’d be out drinking champagne.” Coleman: Plans to help UO recruit diverse faculty ■ Continued from Page 1 cate the arts and study the status of blacks in Oregon. He has developed scholarship programs for minority students and has written countless articles and one book on black writers and musicians. Through his efforts, he has seen the number of faculty of color in his department increase 500 per cent. “For almost 20 years 1 was a one-man band,” he said. While he will finish his career as one of the most highly respect ed professors at the University, he didn’t always want to be a teacher. Although he loved read ing black writers like Baldwin, Wright and Angelou in his segre gated school in Arkansas, his first love was music. After getting his bachelor’s de gree from San Francisco State in theater, he spent almost five years on the road working as a jazz musician. He played stand up bass to crowds of over 10,000 for groups like Peter, Paul and Mary and jazz musician Vince Guaraldi. He also worked in jazz clubs in San Francisco’s North Beach area during the beat gener ation era. Eventually, he gave it all up to be with his wife and two sons, both of whom are now musicians. When he moved to Eugene from the Bay area, most of his friends wondered why. “They said, ‘That’s white-bread country,’ but I came because I thought I could make a differ ence.” Coleman said that although he is retiring from full-time teaching, he will stay on to help University President Dave Frohnmayer re cruit and retain faculty of color. He said despite his accomplish ments, there is still much to be done. “Academia is still absolutely racist,” he said. “People just do it with a rapier instead of a broad axe.” He said retirement will let him spend more time doing photogra phy and playing music, and he may write a book about his expe riences. VoO ^ea? G*ve o°v Emerald «** 346-5511 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. 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