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Author judges, attends awards ■Charles Baxter visits the University to read from his works at the Kidd Tutorial Program’s awards ceremony By Jan Montry for the Emerald Charles Baxter, an author, poet and English professor from the Uni versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, made appearances at the University last week as part of the creative writing program’s annual awards ceremony. Prior to coming to Ore gon, Baxter helped judge Universi ty student writers’ work. Each spring, the creative writing program sponsors a well-known author to judge the Kidd Tutorial Program submissions. Baxter, na tionally renowned author of “Feast of Love” and “Imaginary Paint ings,” was chosen to be this year’s judge for the awards. Fans filled Gerlinger Lounge to standing-room capacity as Baxter spoke Thursday. Creative Writing Program Professor Garrett Hongo spoke briefly about Baxter’s back ground and described his literary style as “Midwestern realism.” “Please help me welcome the very brilliant, very boyish, very ge nial, Charles Baxter,” Hongo said. Baxter approached the podium amid raucous applause, sporting small glasses, short brown hair and a slight beard. He began the reading with “County Road H,” a poem he said is dedicated to people who don’t feel like giving names to roads. With a soft, determined voice, his words echoed through the room. Baxter finished his reading with a chapter from “Feast of Love,” his latest book, in which a young man crosses paths with a tornado. “I want to get a tornado into something I write,” he said, ex plaining his thought process that went before writing the chapter. “Writers in my generation haven’t written enough about shopping malls. I know, I’ll have a tornado hit News brief Planned Parenthood lawyer to speak on contraception legislation Roberta Riley, a lawyer who in June won a landmark sex discrimi nation court case, will speak at 4:30 p.m. today in 180 PLC. Riley was the lead counsel in the federal court case Erickson v. Bartell Drug Co., which ruled that an employer’s exclusion of contra ception from its health plan is ille gal sex discrimination. Now the general counsel for Planned Parenthood of Western Washington, Riley leads a project aimed at convincing every national health plan to cover prescription contraceptives. In November, Riley won a Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year ashopping mall!” After the reading, fans waited in line to get books signed and meet with Baxter. University Bookstore Events Co ordinator Tom Gerald sold books for Baxter to sign. “I like the way he combines his humor with very serious ap proaches to life,” said Gerald, who resigned his bookstore posi tion Friday. The awards ceremony was spon sored by the Kidd Tutorial Program, an intensive one-year writing tuto rial created by Hongo in 1991. Dur ing the year, the program matches students with graduates to study writing and humanities. “(Students) find their subject, < deepen their passion, and once they leave the tutorial, they take *» with them the tools they need to ^ sustain writing on their own,” Kidd Tutorial Director Shelly Withrow said. Withrow announced this year’s Kidd Tutorial student winners in poetry and fictiori before Baxter spoke Thursday. After the event, fiction first-prize winner Amanda Coplin said, “I’m very, very pleased. And you can have the second ‘very’ in there.” Coplin, a junior English major, won for her story “Sleeping With Eu gene,” about a young autistic boy and his mother. Friday afternoon in the Knight Library Browsing room, Baxter spoke to a group composed mostly of writers about writing dialogue. His presentation dealt with the sub texts in stories — elements present in stories that characters don’t di rectly acknowledge. Baxter covered character interac tion, creation of aliases and how di alogue affects characters. “When people aren’t paying at tention to each other, well then (writers) have to pay attention to that,” he said. “That’s the first line of the job description.” Jan Montry is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. award for her accomplishments on the behalf of women. } Students for Choice and ^ Planned Parenthood are sponsor ing Riley’s talk as well as a work- •«' shop at 3 p.m. today in the EMU Walnut Room. The workshop will focus on past and future contra ceptive legislation, especially in Oregon. Scheduled speakers in clude former state representative Kitty Piercy and Sheara Cohen from the Oregon chapter of the National Abortion and Reproduc tive Rights League. 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