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‘Coffee Talk’ for non-natives
■ The session is part of a
series that should get more
regular with the coming year
By Edward Yuen
Oregon Daily Emerald
The International Students As
sociation and the YWCA are co
sponsoring Coffee Talk — a work
shop for students from different
cultures to interact with each oth- ■
er. The theme of the first session
will focus on intercultural rela
tionships.
The idea of the workshop was
initiated by Cathy Kozlowizz, a
volunteer from the YWCA.
Kozlowizz said when she was a
tutor at the University of Wiscon
sin at Stevens Point, some inter
national students at Wisconsin
visited tutors to practice their oral
skills. She said she organized oral
practices with other tutors there,
and the result was satisfying.
Kozlowizz said she under
stands the importance for non-na
tive students to have a chance to
talk to other native English speak
ers. When Kozlowizz came to the
University,
she contacted
the ISA and
suggested to
organize a
similar work
shop.
Ilona Wid
jojo, program
coordinator of
the ISA, said
the workshop
provides a safe environment for
students to learn about different
cultures.
Haya Matsumoto, ISA co-direc
tor, agreed that the workshop is a
Coffee Talk workshop
What: A multicultural communica
tion workshop
Where: YWCA, 841 E. 18th Ave.
When: 6:30 p.m.
For more information, contact
the YWCA at 346-4439.
chance for students to learn more
about different cultures in a
friendly and relaxed environ
ment.
Kozlowizz encourages both lo
cal and international students, es
pecially those who are new to the
University, to go to the workshop.
Widjojo said the workshop
tonight will be the only one for
this term. The ISA and the YWCA
will hold other sessions more reg
ularly starting in January 2000.
Judge denies request to move trial
By C. Bryson Hull
The Associated Press
JASPER, Texas — The defen
dant’s credibility will be the issue
when jurors decide whether a
third white man should join two
ex-roommates on death row for
dragging a black man to his death,
prosecutors said today.
Shawn Allen Berry’s defense
attorney told jurors Berry was
afraid for his own life and decid
ed not to stop the beating that cul
minated with the June 7, 1998,
death of James Byrd Jr.
“We all feel there is a moral re
sponsibility to stop it, but there is
no legal responsibility,” said
Joseph C. “Lum” Hawthorn,
Berry’s lawyer. “Shawn felt like,
well, he was scared. That does not
make him guilty.”
Attorneys made their opening
remarks and testimony began to
day after Judge Joe Bob Golden
denied a defense motion to move
the trial because of extensive me
dia coverage. Golden said he be
lieved the request was an attempt
to delay the trial.
Berry, 24, could receive the
death penalty for his alleged role
in Byrd’s death.
Lawyers on both sides noted to
day that Berry was not adorned
with racist tattoos and did not
write racist letters like John
William King and Lawrence Rus
sell Brewer, two men who shared
a Jasper apartment with him at the
time of the slaying. Both are on
death row for the Byrd murder.
“This boy over there is not like
them,” Jasper County District
Attorney Guy James Gray said.
“He’s different.”
But, he said, the three knew
each other and Berry had been
“partying with them, drinking
with them, running with them.”
“The evidence will show you
the choice to pick up James Byrd
was made by Shawn Berry,” Gray
said. “He knew what the men
were like that he was living with.
He knew they wanted to kill a
black man when he picked him
up.”
Hawthorn said Berry was aware
of his roommates’ racist views
“but did not think they posed a
danger of killing anybody.” He
said Berry frequently offered rides
to people walking along the road.
“I guess some people would
find there’s something sinister in
that,” he said. “Shawn did not. He
saw James Byrd walking. He de
cided to give him a ride.”
Hawthorn had introduced hun
dreds of print and broadcast sto
ries about the case from local me
dia and contended extensive
coverage and community senti
ment against his client would not
afford him fair trial in Jasper.
The motion was filed shortly
before an all-white jury was cho
sen Friday and reversed
Hawthorn’s earlier contention
that he wanted to have the case
tried there because Berry is a well
liked native son.
Hawthorn said jury selection
revealed lingering prejudice
against his client.
In another trial issue, Jasper
^County District Attorney Guy
James Gray asked that CBS pro
ducer Mary Mapes be taken to jail
today for contempt of court for re
fusing to turn over a copy of a
transcript of an interview the net- ■*
work conducted with Berry two
months ago.
Negotiations went late into Tues
day night on a proposed agreement
between prosecutors and CBS. “I’m
a simple guy and I want a very sim
ple deal,” Gray said.
The Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals refused Tuesday to hear
two contempt appeals filed by
Mapes and ordered her to report
to jail for refusing to turn over ma
terials from an interview with
Berry.
It was unclear this morning
whether or when she would re
port to jail.
“Discussions are taking place
but there’s no deal as of yet,” said
CBS News spokeswoman Sandy
Genelius. Genelius said she
“wouldn’t venture a guess” as to
how the situation would be re
solved.
The Society of Professional
Journalists said today it had paid
Mapes’ bail bond of $250.
“It’s a symbolic gesture of sup
port to CBS and its employees for
keeping the functions of the me
dia separated from those of the
courts and law enforcement,”
said Kyle Niederpruem, president
of the society.
Golden twice has ordered
Mapes jailed on contempt charges
for refusing to comply with sub
poenas that demand she hand
over a transcript and videotape of
the complete interview between
Berry and anchor Dan Rather.
News brief
Forum to focus on Mexican
wars, environmental impact
The Committee in Solidarity
with Central American People has
organized “Chiapas: Challenges
in the Face of Transnational Cor
porations and Militarization,” a
forum that will focus on the low
intensity wars happening in Mex
ico and the impacts on the envi
ronment due to these wars. It takes
place tonight 7:30 p.m. at the
EMU Multicultural Center.
University graduate Mike Saltz
traveled to Chiapas in September
and will present what he saw
there in the forum. Saltz worked
with a human rights delegation,
which investigated the living con
ditions there.
A short film prepared by the
Native Forest Network will be
shown after Saltz’s presentation.
University professors Dan
Goldrich from the department of
political science and Lynn
Stephen of the anthropology de
partment will discuss the impacts
of these low intensity wars after
Saltz’s presentation.
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