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English in UNIVERSITY of OREGON SUMMER It's not English as usual this summer at the University of.oregon http://uosummer.uoregon.edu/ Introduction to Literature Mark Chilton, 11:00 a.m., MUWH Eng 104/CRN 41631/June 25-August 17 Satire in Film and Literature William Hamilton, 9:00 a.m., MUWH ENG 199/41634/June 25-August 17 Writing Medieval Monsters: From Antiquity to the Renaissance Kip Wheeler, Noon, MUWH ENG 199/CRN 41635/June 25-August 17 _ Classics of Science Fiction Margaret McBride, 1:00 p.m., MUWH ENG 199/CRN 42609/June 25-August 17 Introduction to Environmental Literature William Rossi, 11:00 a.m.~12:50 p.m., MUWH ENG 230/CRN 42610/June 25-July 20 Introduction to Native American Literature James Tarter, 1:00 p.m., MUWH ENG 240/CRN 41637/June 25-August 17 Introduction to Literary Criticism James Crosswhite, 1:00-2:50 p.m., MUWH ENG 300/CRN 42611/June 25-July 20 Women Writers' Forms: Novel Anne Laskaya, 11:00 a.m., MUWH ENG 316/CRN 42612/June 25-August 17 English Novel Richard Stevenson, 1:00-2:50 p.m., MUWH ENG 321/CRN 43119/July 23-August 17 Shakespeare on Page and Stage Lisa Freinkel, 8:00 a.m.-4:50 p.m., MUWHF ENG 352/CRN 41640/June 18-22 xx* CENTURY 20th-Century Literature Brian Whaley, 10:00 a.m., MUWH ENG 394/CRN 41641/June 25-August 17 Poets of the Northwest John Witte, 1:00-2:50 p.m., MUWH ENG 399/CRN 41642/June 25-July 20 American Detective Fiction James Boren, 9:00 a.m.„ MUWH ENG 399/CRN 42613/June 25-August 17 Community Literacy Suzanne Clark, 8:00 a.m.-4:50 p.m., MUWHF ENG 410/510/CRN 41648/41653/June 18-22 BOOK YOUR SUMMER IN OREGON 2001 Summer Session June 25-August 17 Register by telephone now. Pick up a free summer catalog on campus in Oregon Hall or at the UO bookstore. It has all the information you need to know about UO summer session. Courtesy of Kenge Kobayashi As a part of Tuesday’s presentation, “Japanese Americans and World War II,” Kenge Kobayashi’s watercolors will be exhibited at 7p.m. in the Gumwood Room of the EMU. Ex-internee paints WWII experiences ■ Kenge Kobayashi, who was interned in World War II, will give a presentation Tuesday for Asian Heritage Month By Yoshiomi Morishita for the Emerald The watercolor painting shows a vast field at the foot of a mountain. Boys are playing baseball, with groups of other kids cheering them on. Another spectator at this base ball game is a soldier carrying a ri fle with a bayonet, guarding the in terned Japanese inside barbed-wire fences from a watchtower. In the lower right-hand corner is a signa ture: Kenge Kobayashi, Interned in Tulelake, 1944-46. “Internment was a sad part of our history,” said Kobayashi, 74, recall ing his camp life in Tulelake, Calif., where he spent part of his youth more than half a century ago. Kobayashi, a retired graphic de signer now living in Eugene, and another ex-internee, Bob Kono, 68, will come to the University on Tuesday to share their experiences during the war. Their presentation, titled “Japanese Americans and World War II,” will be held at 7 p.m. in the Gumwood Room of the EMU. The Asian/Pacific American Student Union (APASU) invited the speakers as part of May’s Asian Heritage Month series. Like other Japanese Americans on the West Coast, Kobayashi and his family were shipped to intern ment camps after the Dec. 7,1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, despite his U.S. citizenship as a Nisei, a sec ond-generation Japanese Ameri can. In addition to a speech about the camps, the presentation will in clude an exhibit of Kobayashi’s wa tercolor paintings of internment camps and a showing of the film “Honor Bound,” which features veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Composed of Nisei soldiers, the 442nd is “the most-decorated unit in the history of the U.S. Army,” said Kono, who is currently writing a novel about the combat unit. “[Some] volunteered from the camps to prove their loyalty to the United States, in spite of being clas sified as enemy aliens,” he said. It is critical not to look at the in ternment as an isolated incident in the American experience, said Lau ren Kessler, journalism professor and author of an award-winning book, “Stubborn Twig: Three Gen erations in the Life of a Japanese American Family.” “Internment was [a] serious legal and extralegal episode of racism in the United States,” Kessler said. “The idea of having [internees] talk about their experiences is very rare,” said Sugie Hong, co-director of APASU. “They were there, but we weren’t.” Once labeled as enemies or aliens, many ex-internees hesitate to speak about their camp experi ences, Kobayashi said. However, he said he is not shy about talking about his own, because “we didn’t do anything wrong.” 011748 DOZENS & DOZENS of ways to say Order early for the perfect floral gift for mom. Come in or call our flower specialists today or check our website eugenesflowerhome.com Cjuqene \s CP.'foiver 3~fome “The University Florist” 610 East 13th Avenue (at Patterson) 485-3655 or toll-free at 1-800-478-3655
