Thursday, November 14,2002
Since 1900
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 104, Issue 55
Artistic revolution
The new Hult Center exhibit,
a collection of artifacts from
China’s Cultural Revolution,
aims to educate the public
Helen Schumacher
Pulse Reporter
The current exhibit at the Hult
Center’s Jacobs Gallery transforms
simple, everyday objects into works
of art. The exhibit, “Ordinary Life in
Extraordinary Times,” is a collection
of artifacts from China’s Cultural Rev
olution. It will be on display for the
rest of November.
Chairman Mao Zedong gave the
name “Great Proletariat Cultural Revo
lution” to the decade, beginning in
1966, of imposed social and political
activity aimed at strengthening Com
munist sentiment in the country. Al
most every object created during this
time, from daily tools to fine art, was
required to have revolutionary content.
Diaries, stamps, posters, rice bowls
— all championing the values of Chi
na’s Communist Party — make up the
exhibit. Screenprinted posters show
workers, peasants, students and sol
diers celebrating the formation of the
new government. From illustrated eye
exercises (designed to prevent near
sightedness) to drawings of a farmer in
structing urban youth on agricultural
techniques, many posters teach chil
dren the ideals of the revolution. Al
most every artifact is red and embla
zoned with an image of Chairman Mao.
Even buttons depict the leader.
Charles Lachman, Director of the
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies,
which is one of the groups sponsoring
the exhibit, said the artifacts give the
viewer a context for understanding
the Cultural Revolution.
“There’s a lot of apprehension sur
rounding communism,” Lachman
said. “(With this exhibit), people get
to have a more complicated under
standing of the Cultural Revolution.”
The exhibit was shown at the
Burke Museum of Natural History and
Culture in Seattle, and East Asian lan
guages and literature Professor
Wendy Larson led a film discussion in
conjunction with the display. Larson
said the exhibit shows how the Cul
tural Revolution played out in daily
life, a perspective that the larger po
litical story doesn’t usually present.
Turn to China, page 8
Jeremy Forrest Emerald
"Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times," a collection of Chinese artifacts from Chairman Mao
Zedong's decade-long Cultural Revolution, will be on display through November at the Hult
Center. The exhibit features posters, bowls, stamps, diaries, buttons and other items. Almost
every item created during this time period was required to have revolutionary content
Community
quietly talks
about KUGN
University members call a private meeting
to discuss comments made on KUGN, saying
they fear backlash from talk show hosts
Jennifer Bear
Campus/City Culture Reporter
Members of the University administration, staff, and students
convened a private meeting Tuesday to further discuss a contro
versy stemming from remarks made by talk show hosts on KUGN
radio that community members allege are racist. A similar public
meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. today in the Oak Room of the EMU.
KUGN pays roughly $ 1 million per year for exclusive local broad
casting rights for all University sporting events. As a benefit, the sta
tion is also allowed to identify itself as “the Voice of the Ducks.”
The meeting was declared closed to the public because organ
izers feared a backlash from nationally-syndicated radio talk
show hosts Michael Savage and Michael Medved.
Savage has sued University of California official Troy Duster
for what Savage alleges was discrimination leveled in 1996 when
the radio personality was not hired as dean of the School of Jour
nalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
The lawsuit claims discrimination on the basis of Savage’s
conservative ideology, not a backlash from any specific remarks
the radio host made on-air. There is no evidence Medved has
ever sued anyone as a result of programming content disputes.
However, participants, at the Tuesday meeting said they still
Turn to KUGN, page 12
Programs earn
‘trash’ awards
Both Campus Recycling and the Environmental
Service Learning Program received Trashbuster
Awards this year for recycling efforts
Jody Burruss
Environment/Science/Technology Reporter
Two University programs were honored Wednesday for their
2001-02 recycling efforts in Lane County’s 10th annual Trash
buster Awards, a local event that coincides with the nationally
recognized America Recycles Day.
Of five Trashbuster Awards this year, two were presented to
University programs. Campus Recycling and the Environmental
Service Learning Program both received awards for their out
standing efforts in reducing waste during the past school year.
“We wanted to see an award system for people doing a good
job at recycling and reducing waste,” Lane County waste re
duction specialist Pete Chism said of the program.
Campus Recycling received the Special Event Trashbuster
Award for its efforts at the 2002 Willamette.Valley Folk Festival,
which recovered 82 percent of the event’s waste. This was done by
converting the event’s usual 28 garbage cans to seven stations where
Turn to Awards, page 4
Discussion to give insight on Ramadan
Danielle Hickey Emerald
Muslim Students Association members Lejla Filipovic and Alina
Tureeva discuss Ramadan activities in the EMU Fishbowl.
Muslim speakers from around
the world will discuss the Muslim
holy month tonight in the EMU
Chelsea Duncan
Freelance Reporter
Khaled Ishaq, a member of the Mus
lim Students Association, said he feels
Ramadan is a spiritual, physical and
moral exercise.
“It’s a month of charity,” Ishaq said.
“You should give as much as you can to
the poor.”
A discussion tonight, “Celebrating Di
versity in Islam,” will give students the
opportunity to learn about Muslims
around the world and the month of Ra
madan, as well.
The discussion begins at 6 p.m. in
the International Lounge of the EMU
and will feature Muslim speakers from
around the world, Ishaq said. The dis
cussion is sponsored by MSA and the
Office of International Programs, and
will highlight different ways in which
Muslims around the world observe
Ramadan.
Ishaq said the discussion will be an
informal presentation about how people
pursue their lives as Muslims around the
world and their different cultures,
traditions and practices. It will also pro
vide non-Muslims with a different per
spective compared to the perceptions
Turn to Ramadan, page 4
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