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Leading history
Black History Month person of the day
Henry McNcal Turner, bom in 1834 on Hannah Cir
cuit near Newberry, S.C., worked in the cotton fields and
in the blacksmithing trade until he was 12 years old. He
slowly became active in politics during his youth, fighting
for better treatment of black Americans in the South.
Turner tried learning to read several times throughout
his childhood, but a law forbidding anyone to teach a
black person the alphabet hampered his attempts, and
he learned only pieces at a time. At age 15, he was given a
job in a law office at the local courthouse, where men in
the office defied the law and helped him learn to read.
Turner had a strong desire to become a theologian,
which evolved into the establishment of a church exclu
sively for blacks. He said he believed that the purpose of a
black church would be to develop racial pride and con
sciousness among black Americans everywhere.
Although Turner is most commonly remembered as
one of the first bishops in the African American Epis
copal Church, he was also a magazine editor, a political
activist, a preacher and a college chancellor. He was
also active in the military, appointed by President
Abraham Lincoln as the first black chaplain ever to
serve in the U.S. Army.
Jessica Richelderfer
Johnson
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play Dungeons and Dragons and
video games. I think I am a definite
ly a geek,” Johnson said. “But I also
go to parties and do things other
people do.”
Johnson, 20, moved with his fami
ly to Indonesia when he was eight.
His father works as a geologist for
Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold
Inc., the primary copper mining com
pany in Indonesia. He lived in a small
rural town surrounded by thick green
jungle. Johnson said he believes this
separation from U.S. popular culture
had a lot to do with how he was raised
and the perspectives he formed.
“Instead of running through the
city throwing rocks off overpasses
like some kids, we would go dashing
through the jungle swinging on
vines” he said. “In the big picture,
being cut off from the fall of M.C.
Hammer and the rise of Vanilla Ice
was not such a big miss-out for me.”
When Johnson was in the 10th
grade, he moved back to the states
and attended a private Quaker high
school in Maryland. His parents re
mained in Indonesia.
During his senior year, he became
interested in 3-D computer pro
grams and multimedia design.
“I just started messing around
with different programs and really
liking them,” Johnson said. “I went
online and started checking out col
leges with good general education
programs and good multimedia pro
grams. The University seemed like a
good deal.”
Johnson spent his first two years
at the University in the residence
halls, but he now lives with four oth
er people in an off-campus house.
One of his roommates, Ben Brown,
met Johnson during their freshman
year, but now, three years later,
Brown said he still doesn’t entirely
understand Johnson’s personality.
“Max is a difficult person to figure
out,” Brown said. “Sometimes he’s
completely open and outgoing, and
sometimes he seems to retreat back
into his own interior world and sort
of peek out at the rest of us from be
hind his eyes.”
Perhaps Johnson is hard for his
friends to figure out because he’s so
many things. During his first year in
Oregon, he attended an outdoor
rave in Salem. There he saw his first
real fire jugglers, known as poi
swingers; on the East Coast he had
seen similar demonstrations using
glow sticks and string.
“I was like ‘Oh my god, that’s so
cool,”’ Johnson said.
Johnson talked to several people
at the rave and learned how to put
together the swinging chains of fire.
“It’s basically just a chain and a
wick,” Johnson said. “The first ones
I made were super heavy, but now
I’ve got ones that are a lot thinner
and easier to control.”
Johnson is now an accomplished
fire swinger, and his friend Jessi
Macklin says he is getting “really
amazing at it.”
Macklin has known Johnson for
about a year and said when she met
him, she immediately thought he was
a person she would like to know.
“Max is the kind of guy who has
an individualized look,” she said.
“When you see him you just think,
‘Wow, that would be a cool person to
be friends with.’”
Contact the reporter
at aimeerudin@dailyemerald.com.
Debate
continued from page 1
sides of the issues.
“It’s obviously not to convince
each other or try to change each
others’ minds,” Bailey said.
Topics for discussion include
President Bush’s economic stimulus
package, the pending war in Iraq
and the fate of affirmative action, fo
cusing on the two University of
Michigan U.S. Supreme Court cases.
White said Democrats and Repub
licans will each have a six-person
panel, two for each topic. University
alumnus Jeff Oliver will moderate.
White said students will be encour
aged to attend the debate because it
will educate them on the logic behind
both sides of the issues. He added
panelists will not be advocating their
own personal views at the debate. In
stead, White said today’s event is
geared to inform students about the
official Republican Party and Demo
cratic Party stances on the issues.
“It’s important for students to
hear what both parties believe in,”
White said.
The last debate the College Re
publicans and College Democrats
sponsored together was Nov. 20,
2001, and included more topics
than national political issues. The
two student groups talked about
missile defense, education, student
incidental fees, President Bush’s en
ergy plan and the recession.
Bailey, the moderator for the No
vember debate, said the College Re
publicans and the College Democ
rats decided to address fewer topics
today because neither group felt
there was enough time to sufficient
ly discuss all the issues at their last
debate. He said that the topics were
obvious choices because the media
has given them steady coverage.
“All these issues are very close to
people’s hearts,” he said. “So we
wanted to give extra attention to
each issue.”
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