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Editorial Editors: Bret Jacobson, Laura Lucas
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Wednesday
January 19,2000
Volume 101, Issue 78
Kitifrald
Emerald staffers reveal their favorite fruity and creamy pie flavors. Apple is
the favorite up here, but there is no end to variety. PieRecipe.com offers
pie lovers more varieties from which to choose favorites.
Easy as
Pie
Black Apple Pie
1 ready-made pie
crust
4-5 C blackberries
3 tbs. flour
1/2 C sugar
1 tbs. corn starch
1/4 Corange mar
malade
1 apple
Combine berries,
flour, sugar, corn
starch and mar
malade in a bowl
until well blended.
Pour mixture into
the crust
Slice the apple pa
per thin and
arrange slices on
top.
Cover with tinfoil
and bake at 375*
for 20-25 minutes.
Take thefoiJ off
and bake it for 10
minutes more or
until brown and
bubbly.
It’s as
American as apple pie, they say. And
while we seem to talk a lot about what
it means to be American, we often ig
nore the pie part of the clichb.
Well this Sunday, Jan. 23, pie becomes
the center of attention. This Sunday we
celebrate National Pie Day.
Laugh if you will, but pie fills a void in
our lives. Some might call that void
hunger, but we like to call it a deeper
yearning for Americana. It has to do with
moms, coffee dives, Thanksgiving Day
feasting and baseball.
And while most of those aforementioned
pieces of Americana are riddled with
stereotypes and are even untrue to what it
means to be American today, the notion
that something is “as American as apple
pie” still rings true. Because almost every
one can relate to pie.
What’s often
more difficult to fig
out is where to get
great pie. In researching the treat in Eu
gene, we came across two local places that
featured pie as a main theme: Dave’s Pie
Shop and Marie Callender’s. In a complete
ly unscientific taste test, both samples
(sour cream apple from Marie Callender’s
and lemon cream from Dave’s) were
deemed worthy of being featured for Na
tional Pie Day. This revelation doesn’t just
deal with pie in the sky, it’s about pie right
here in our own backyard.
The Buzz, in the EMU basement, has
added pie from Dave’s as a daily menu op
tion right in time for its celebratory day.
While the selection probably isn’t as good
as it would be in the shop, the coffee house
does offer both cream and fruit pies, the yin
and yang of the pie world.
What might be most appealing about pie
in the first place is the sheer variety. Pecan,
banana cream, chocolate silk, peanut but
ter, custard, lemon, apple, berry, mince,
peach, pumpkin, coconut cream, German
chocolate, blueberry, key lime, strawberry,
rhubarb and Boston cream are just a few
flavors. (And most have their own “sugar
free” version to boot.)
The South may be well recognized as the
main source of pie flavors, but they certain
ly make the best down there, too. If you’re
ever in Shreveport, La., know that it’s a
great pie towh. It’s worth going there to sat
isfy your cutie pie’s sugar craving.
If you’d like to make some pie on your
own, the Internet may be the way to go. If
you just put “pie” into the Yahoo! search
engine, however, you end up with a few
Web sites that feature pie more as a prop
than a food. Fear not, scroll down and click
on “Society and Culture > Food and Drink
> Cooking > Recipes > Baking > Pies.”
From there you’ll be escorted to a couple
on-line recipe guides. “PieRecipe.com" is
probably the best, with a weekly Top Ten
List for favorite pie recipes. And if you
have a great recipe of your own, submit it
for other pie-lovers’ enjoyment.
If you’re not into all the fat and calories
associated with partaking of pie, then just
go an alternative route to enjoying them:
Make “sweetie pie” your new favorite pet
name for your significant other.
In any case, be sure to give honor and re
spect to pie this weekend. If you don’t re
member, that’s OK. Laziness is American,
too.
This editorial represents the opinion of the Emerald
editorial board. Responses may be sent to ode@ore
gon. uoregon.edu.
Letters to the editor
Governor to address campus
Please join us for University
Convocation, today in the EMU
Ballroom at 2:30 p.m. Our guest
speaker this year is Gov. John
Kitzhaber, who will address the
campus community on the topic
of diversity.
This is an important opportuni
ty to welcome and hear from our
elected state leader. It is also a
chance to be together as a commu
nity at the start of this academic
term.
Faculty will participate by en
tering the ballroom in a tradition
al academic processional, wearing
caps and gowns and sitting togeth
er in designated seating in front of
the ballroom.
We invite students as individu
als and as student groups to join us
for this celebration. Classes are not
canceled for this event, and Uni
versity offices will remain open.
Hopefully many of you who do
not have compelling commit
ments today at 2:30 p.m. will be
able to convene with us in the ball
room to hear our governor, reaf
firm our academic tradition of
convocation and celebrate our di
versity in this month in which we
honor the late Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. and many other
leaders in social justice.
Dr. Anne L. Leavitt
Associate Vice President & Dean of
Students
Wrong conclusions reached
I was dismayed by the conclu
sions reached in “A Step in the
Right Direction” (ODE, Jan. 7). I
am a graduate student at Universi
ty of California, Berkeley and a
member of the United Students
Against Sweatshops; at Berkeley,
we just passed the strongest code
of conduct of any American uni
versity. This is definitely a step in
the right direction to end the horri
ble abuses that sweatshops repre
sent.
At the same time, we should
harbor no delusions about what
brought about that change. It was
n’t patient deliberation by the uni
versity, nor was it the painstaking
and judicious ideas of university
administrators. It was the pressure
put on the universities by students
to do the right thing.
Finally.
We should remember that uni
versities benefit from, sweatshops;
these licensing agreements often
bring in millions of dollars worth
of revenues for colleges. Also,
many of the trustees that sit on our
university boards are large share
holders in the very same corpora
tions that employ sweatshop la
bor. What a horrible injustice it
would be to leave the fates of peo
ple who work for pennies a day in
the hands of these rational policy
makers.
Why, we should ask, are they
coming to their senses now? Not to
recognize the importance of stu
dent activism across the country
in this change would be simply an
exercise in foolishness.
Snehal Shingavi
University of California, Berkeley
Emerald off the mark
Was Friday’s editorial “A step
in the right direction” (ODE, Jan.
7) drafted in Johnson Hall?
The Emerald’s editorial board is
apparently learning to use that
measured, rational doublespeak of
corporate America to demonize
“vocal” students (Human Rights
Alliance?) while at the same time
pontificating that it’s great that stu
dents “stay active in die local poli
tics of the school.”
The real kudos, however, are
deserved by cartoonist Giovanni
Salimena. He captures the spirit of
the board’s editorial: on the right a
crazed woman, all teeth and wild
hair and bug-a-boo eyes with a fly
swatter in hand: on the left a slick
haired student with mouth open,
in coat and tie and looking like a
cross between Donald Duck and
Peter Lorrie; and in the middle (of
course!) a paternalistic adminis
trator type (Frohnmayer?) with
arms around them both, doing his
best to bring the two sides together
once again and knowing, of
course, that he, the adult, knows
best. The only mistake Salimena
made was not putting the students
on the opposite sides of that es
teemed man.
I’m glad to know that the par
ents of University students have
nothing to fear from this editorial
staff, except if they want their
Johnny or Mary to think for them
selves.
Peter Ferris
Eugene Resident
Media attention given to
wrong subjects
I think it’s odd that so much me
dia attention is given to multiple
births. In recent examples, com
plete strangers have given gifts,
scholarships and even a new
house to the children resulting
from these births, while so many
other children all over the world
are struggling just to survive. All
this attention comes at a time
when “global awareness” is sup
posedly the trend, yet no one
makes the connection between
multiple-births, fertility pills. I
would also like to congratulate
parents who choose to only have
one or two children and especially
those who generously open their
homes and adopt.
Gwen Gasman
Biology and French