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“Experience makes Kelly
best choice for Ward 3”
“Kelly has a better understanding of what
we’re facing as Ward 3 residents, and as
University students.”
“We liked Kelly’s ideas about implementing
Eugene housing standards patterned after a
similar system in Corvallis.”
“We applaud the initiative he’s shown by
working with the ASUO.”
- Oregon Daily Emerald, 5/6/2002
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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.
Students for Choice Co-Director
Lauren Manes said many students
don’t realize that once they gradu
ate and aren’t eligible for Student
Health Center services, their insur
ance company may not cover pre
scriptive contraception costs.
— Kara Cogswell
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