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Volume 103,Issue 54
Homemade for the Holidays
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■The annual Holiday Market
k returns with its ‘exciting’, ‘unique’
and ‘charming’ atmosphere
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Market. Nearly 300 vendors will
be selling handmade goods in the Lane
County Fairgrounds Exhibition Center
beginning Nov. 23.
The business owners, most of whom
sell at both the Saturday Market and
the Holiday Market, will display their
best products and focus on selling to
the expanded holiday crowd, Saturday
Market spokeswoman Kim Still said.
“It’s exciting,” Still said, “The
weather becomes challenging, and this
is like New Year’s Eve. It’s marking a
new thing.”
Unlike the outdoor market, which is
only held on Saturdays, the Holiday
Market is held Saturday and Sunday
from Nov. 23 to Christmas Eve. The
holiday event is also open Dec. 21-24
to accommodate last-minute Christmas
shoppers, Still said.
Dana and Colleen Bauman make
their living off of selling cheesecake
and other baked goods at both the Sat
urday Market and Holiday Market.
Opening Dana’s Cheesecake Bakery at
- the markets 20 years ago has enabled
both Dana and Colleen to quit their
other jobs and concentrate solely on
% running their family business, Colleen
Bamnan said.
“Businesses that start out in the Sat
urday Market are usually bootstrap
businesses,” she said. “There’s very lit
tle capital and a lot of hope.”
She said the business is famous for its
vanilla cheesecake, which is the biggest
seller during the Holiday Market. The
pumpkin cheesecake is also a seasonal
favorite. Dana makes all of the baked
goods sold at the market, she said.
aturday Market vendors are about
to pack up their booths and move
inside for the 15th annual Holiday
Turn to Saturday Market, page 3A
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Julia Waschow makes a purchase at Saturday Market’s Ritta’s Burritos booth last April. The days of the outdoor
market are numbered, as the Holiday Market in the Lane County Fairgrounds Exhibition Center will begin Nov. 23.
Symposium connects creative and legal fields
■ Planners of the two-day
art and law event hope
to educate artists about
their rights and obligations
By Helen Schumacher and
Kara Westervelt
for the Emerald
For many people, the worlds of
art and law may appear to have
nothing in common. However,
there is an often-overlooked con
nection between these two fields,
said Christy Cox, a planner for
this weekend’s art and law sym
posium, called “Outside the
Lines: Community, Creativity,
and the Law.”
It is because the connection is
so often overlooked that Cox and
others created Outside the Lines,
a two-day event designed to edu
cate students and community
members about the importance of
artists understanding the legal is
sues, such as copyright laws and
contracts, surrounding their
work. The symposium is a collab
orative effort on the part of stu
dent organizations and the com
munity, said Sarah Bailen, a
symposium planner and repre
sentative from the Art and Ad
ministration Student Forum.
Cox said the goal of the sympo
sium is for students to walk away
with an idea of what their rights
and responsibilities are.
The symposium, which is
new this year, starts today at 6
p.m. with ArtWalk, a free walk
ing tour of public art at the Uni
versity School of Law. Several
local artists will answer ques
tions and discuss the pieces. Af
ter the walk, the Law School
class of 2002 will sell selected
pieces of art, the proceeds from
which will go to the Wayne T.
Westling Memorial Fund, said
DeAnna Horne, a representative
of the Class of ’02.
Saturday’s events begin at 9
a.m. with a presentation on the
state of the arts and continue with
a keynote lecture by Juana Alicia
and Brooke Oliver at 9:30 a.m.
Alicia is a San Francisco Bay area
mural artist and activist, and
Oliver is an arts lawyer. In the lec
ture, called “Public Spaces and
Cases: Creating and Defending
Murals in California’s Bay Area,”
the speakers will explore the con
nection between community mu
rals and the law.
Two sets of workshops and a
panel discussion will follow the
lecture. The workshops will ad
dress contracts and the concept
of intellectual property and
copyrights for visual and per
forming artists, as well as for
writers.
Cox said the symposium is a
“place to start a dialogue about
copyrighting (of artistic materi
al).” She said not all artists are
aware of how copyright law
works for or against them.
Turn to ArtWalk, page 3A
Students
discuss
Islamic
religion
■The speakers at Thursday’s panel
discussion attempt to dispel some
myths about their religion
By Anna Seeley
Oregon Daily Emerald
On Sept. 11, terrorists committed sui
cide in the act of killing thousands of
others. Redha Mohammad explained
Thursday night that this is a sin.
“They killed innocent people and
said they did it in the name of Islam,”
Mohammad said. “This is a major vio
lation of Islamic law."
Mohammad was one of three speak
ers at a Muslim Student Association
panel discussion, held in an effort to ed
ucate about Islam and erase the miscon
ceptions about the religion that have
arisen since Sept. 11.
Students Lidia Karmadjieva and Ali
na Tureeva also spoke to an audience of
more than 60 people about human
rights, jihad and the Taliban in respect
to the Islamic religion. The overall mes
sage of the event was that Islam does
not support violations of human rights,
suicide or the killing of innocent peo
ple, despite what terrorists or Taliban
leaders may claim.
MSA member Nadia Hasan opened
the program by explaining the basics of
Islam. She said the literal meaning of Is
lam is “surrender to the will of God.”
She added that Islamic religion is prac
ticed in many countries outside the
Middle East.
Karmadjieva, a student from Bulgar
ia, said the faith of Islam is not discrimi
natory and welcomes different people
and different perspectives. She said Is
lamic beliefs include tolerance of other
faiths, and Muslims encourage people
to explore those faiths.
“Education in the Islamic world is
highly encouraged,” she said. “’Educate
yourselves, and enlighten the world.’
This is what Islam is about and what
I’m about.”
Karmadjieva said Islam encourages
women to be educated, and Muslims
don’t see women as inferior. She said in
Muslim society, women can use their
education however they want. It’s im
portant for women to be educated, she
said, because otherwise they can’t raise
educated children.
“Illiterate mothers raise illiterate chil
dren — who grow up to be suicide
bombers,” she said.
She added that she sees the United
States as a big part of the prophecy of Is
lam because of America’s principles of
freedom and respect of different com
munities. She said the only way to fight
terrorists is to fight with the principles
Turn to MSA, page 3A