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Leading history
Black History Month person of the day
Gwendolyn Brooks was bom on June 7,1917, in
Topeka, Kan. She grew up in Chicago, and while her
parents were loving, they were strict. A combination
of being sheltered and receiving rejection from other
children led her to a shy, introverted youth, so she
invented her own worlds on paper in words.
Brooks’ early verses were published in the Chicago
Defender, a newspaper serving the black communi
ty. She graduated from Wilson Junior College in 1936
and married Henry Blakeley in 1939. Her first book
was published in 1945, and “Annie Allen,” her collec
tion of poems about a black girl growing up in Chica
go, won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. She was the
first black American to win the prize.
Brooks’ writing chronicled the lives or ordinary black
Americans as they struggled with poverty and racism,
and it resonated with readers. She published more than
20 books of poetry in her life. In 1968, she was named
Illinois’ poet laureate, in 1976 she became the first
black American to win an American Academy of Arts
and Letters award, and in 1985-86 she was the Consul
tant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
She later won the Frost Medal, a National Endow
ment for the Arts award and a fellowship from the
Guggenheim Foundation, among many other awards.
Brooks lived in Chicago until her death Dec. 3,2000.
Michael J. Kleckner
News briefs
NASU brings back
Winter Pow Wow
The Native American Student
Union will hold its Winter Pow Wow
7 p.m. Saturday at 220 Gerlinger.
A free traditional dinner of salmon
and potatoes will precede the pow
wow at 4:30 p.m. in 219 Gerlinger.
NASU co-Director Brent Spencer
said all students and community
members are invited to attend and
take parkin the event, where par
ticipants will sing traditional songs
and dance.
“It’s a celebration of our culture,”
Spencer said. “We’re trying to pro
vide ... an opportunity to share with
the community.”
Spencer and former NASU Direc
tor Geo. Ann Baker said guests will
bring back some cultural awareness
from the pow wow.
The goal of the pow wow “is to
share and to educate non-native
people,” Baker said.
— Roman Gokhman
EMU Board trims
budget for new growth
The EMU Board of Directors Bud
get Committee presented a budget of
813,245,160 to its own board and saw
the proposal pass unanimously at
the relatively uneventful meeting
Wednesday night.
The budget committee spent al
most the entire month of January in
meticulous budget meetings with
budget managers from departments
such as The Break and EMU Food
Services, trying to trim money in
every possible area to allow new
growth for programs such as UO Cul
tural Forum.
In order to eke out the 8212,300
increase, the budget committee
trimmed money from individual ac
counts, such as #2,000 from Global
Marketing, #1,350 from Waste Dis
posal and #2,500 from money set
aside for work-study hires.
Most of the money will fund EMU
building reserves and current serv
ice level increases — the bare mini
mum needed to allow a department
to serve students just as well as it did
in the previous year. The remaining
money has been set aside to allow
the Cultural Forum’s office manager
to work a three-quarters time job,
year round, instead of the current
half-time position that is funded
nine months out of the year.
The Board, which directs the
course for the 200,000-square-foot
EMU, must take its budget, which
represents a 7 percent increase for
2003-04, and present it to Student
Senate on Feb. 19 before the amount
becomes an official figure.
— Brook Reinhard
Garbage
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composted,” Sims said. “This has
been a hugely labor intensive
process; we’ve been sorting waste
(from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.) every day
for a week.”
About 3,500 EMU Food Services
customers produce 700 pounds of
garbage and 530 pounds of recycla
ble materials a day. Preliminary re
sults from the waste audit indicated
nearly 40 percent of the collected
waste could have been composted,
while non-recoverable plastic uten
sils and drink cups made up more
than 26 percent of the trash.
Students conducting the project
plan to interview EMU food vendors
and customers to find ways to en
hance waste reduction efforts.
Service Learning Program Coor
dinator Steve Mital said the program
provides undergraduate environ
mental studies students the oppor
tunity to tackle real world environ
mental problems. Mital said the
program was started to give stu
dents skills that will help them find
Danielle Hickey Emerald
(Back to front) Chris Evans, April Li and Heather Rensvold sort through waste from
the EMU, separating trash from recyclable items. Their project will provide EMU Food
Services with information to help reduce waste and increase recycling.
jobs after graduation.
“The Service Learning Program is
basically a small environmental
consulting agency,” Mital said.
“These students get a glimpse into
the professional world of environ
mental waste.”
Contact the reporter
at andrewblack@dailyemerald.com.
Josef Pansoy and
Rand Stamm
discuss procedures
to be used with the
recently purchased
street sweeper.
Mark McCambridge
Emerald
Machine
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pedestrian friendly sweeper comes
complete with a recycling chamber
as well as flashing warning lights
and an audible voice recording to
warn people of its approach. Swept
trash is gathered with two rotating
front brushes, pulled through a
tough alloy impeller fan and com
pacted to a size and consistency
similar to rock salt.
Contact the reporter
at caronalarab@dailyemerald.com.
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