Exhibit honors Eddy,
women’s challenges
Mary Baker Eddy, founder
of the Christian Science Monitor;
is memorialized in a new
multimedia exhibit
Lindsay Sauve
Family/Health/Education Reporter
Before a time when many
women could vote, own property
or earn a living on their own, Mary
Baker Eddy, founder of the
Church of Christ, Scientist and
the Christian Science Monitor,
played a significant role in chal
lenging the limitations placed on
women in the late 1800s.
In conjunction with Women’s
History Month, celebrated every
March, the University is hosting a
multimedia exhibit in honor of
Eddy. The exhibit is in Knight Li
brary’s periodical room and runs
until April 29.
In addition to the exhibit, two
Thursday workshops will be held to
discuss Eddy’s book and teachings.
The first is at 7 p.m. April 17 at the
University Bookstore and the sec
ond will be at 7 p.m. April 24 at
Border’s Books and Music, located
at 5 Oakway Center.
The Eddy exhibit has traveled all
over the country and is a replica of
the original exhibit, which has a
i-—-—
permanent home at the Women’s
Rights National Historical Park in
Seneca Falls, N.Y.
“The exhibit is great because it’s
really interactive,” said Cara List,
the exhibit’s campus coordinator
and an AAA reference librarian.
“It’s interesting and informational.”
According to Joan Pedersen, the
exhibit’s national program manager,
the exhibit was created in 1998 in
conjunction with the 150th anniver
sary of the Seneca Falls Convention,
the first women’s rights gathering.
Park coordinators wanted to feature
exhibits about women in history who
have not received much recognition.
“The exhibit really resonates
with young people because (Eddy)
was an overachiever,” said Peder
sen. “She was an author, a religious
leader and a healer.”
After recovering from an acci
dent in 1866, Eddy was inspired
by the biblical teaching surround
ing healing and medicine. Accord
ing to Sally Ulrich, the exhibit’s
coordinator, Eddy discovered a
correlation with spiritual thought
and prayer and healing, and spent
the next 44 years sharing her ex
perience with others.
“Though teachings about meta
physical healing may seem like
commonplace today,” Ulrich said.
“(They weren’t) really accepted in
the 19th century.”
In 1875, Eddy published “Science
and Health,” later named “Science
and Health with Key to Scriptures,”
one of the first major publications
about metaphysical healing, Peder
sen said. The book has sold more
than nine million copies.
In addition to authoring her pio
neering book, Eddy also established
the Church of Christ, Scientist in
1879. The church, which accepts
members of any faith, has grown in
ternationally and focuses on a
prayer-based system of healing,
Pedersen said. Eddy also estab
lished the Massachusetts Metaphys
ical College in 1881. The college
still convenes every three years as a
symposium for teachers of meta
physical healing.
At the age of 87, Eddy established
the Christian Science Monitor in re
sponse to yellow journalism — what
she considered irresponsible report
ing that many large newspapers prac
ticed to dig up dirt on people and
businesses. The Monitor is still pub
lished today and is considered one of
the top seven news publications in
America. The paper has also won
seven Pulitzer Prizes, Pedersen said.
Contact the reporter
atlindsaysauve@dailyemerald.com.
Mark McCambridge Emerald
The Mary Baker Eddy exhibit will run until the end of April in the periodicals room
of the Knight Library.
A voice on war
Howard Zinn,
author of "A
People's History
of the United
States," spoke to
asold-out
McDonald
Theater
audience on
Friday night. The
event, where
Zinn discussed
his latest essay,
"War," was
hosted by the
Cultural Forum.
Jeremy Forrest
Emerald
Palast
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public relations arm of the re
publican party.”
Siporin, the next speaker, re
ceived laughter from the crowd
as he talked about the Bush ad
ministration, even comparing
the 2000 elections in Florida
against former President Clin
ton’s affair with Monica Lewin
sky.
“Personally, I would rather
have a president who screws a
person than who screws a na
tion,” he said.
It was 7:15 p.m. when Palast
took the podium to a standing
ovation and thanked the crowd
for coming.
“Special thanks for the invita
tion here at the Shedd,” he said.
“They have very good reasons
(for not wanting me), but it’s all
bullshit.” Palast also added a
special thanks to the one man
who had brought the crowd to
gether: President Bush.
Palast then launched into
some of the stories he had un
covered as an investigative jour
nalist working from London.
Palast focused on the controver
sies of Richard Pearl, Barrick
Gold, the war in Iraq, a terrorist
organization and the 2000 Flori
da elections.
As Palast spoke of the stories
he had uncovered, he also spoke
of the lack of corporate media
coverage of these events. He
pointed out that the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People won a lawsuit
against the state of Florida after
the 2000 elections, and added
that there was little, if any, press
coverage.
The event was originally sup
posed to raise money for inde
pendent media outlets, but or
ganizers ended up losing money
after controversy arose. Origi
nally, Palast had been scheduled
to speak at the John G. Shedd
Institute for the Arts in Eugene,
but he chose to throw away the
contract three weeks ago. Kat
Beglinger-L’Estrange, who organ
ized Palast’s Northwest tour, said
“the Shedd” didn’t want to host
Palast after finding out he would
be speaking about politics.
Beglinger-UEstrange said the
University allowed Palast to
speak at Columbia 150, but she
did not have time to fill out the
paperwork required when charg
ing for an event. As a result, the
event made no money, and more
than 400 dollars was lost on the
broken contract.
To compensate for the lost
funds, Palast ended his speech
by asking people to send dona
tions to help.
“We have to keep meeting like
this,” he said. His final thought
was a quote from President
Bush, the only one Palast said he
agreed with.
“’Do not fight for a dying
regime,”’ Palast said as he quot
ed the president. “’It is not
worth your life.’”
Contact the reporter at
alishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
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