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Artist Sanam Aarabi's photo in the Aperture Gallery was recently vandalized.
News brief
Vandal strikes
EMU art exhibit
A picture currently featured as
part of an art display at the EMU
Aperture Gallery was vandalized last
week shortly after it was exhibited.
The picture, which features a
Wotnan wearing a “No war” pin on
her'jacket,' was marked on May 15,
the opening day of the UO Cultural
Forum-sponsored photo exhibit.
Student artist Sanam Aarabi,
who took the photo, said an
unidentified person crossed out
the word “no” in ink and wrote the
wrote the word “war” on the mat
te next to the picture.
Liz Lessner, visual arts coordina
tor for the Cultural Forum, said she
was surprised that anybody would
feel strongly enough that they
would destroy art that took time
and money to prepare.
“I was shocked that somebody
would disrespect somebody else’s
work like that,” she said.
Aarabi echoed the sentiments,
saying that while the exhibit’s
meaning is whatever people take
from it, her overall intentions were
more to express culture in Eugene.
“I come from a different state al
together, and I find it really interest
ing that there is such a different
scene in Eugene,” she said.
Regardless of her intentions be
hind the photo spread, Aarabi ex
pressed concern about the maturity
of the vandals and worried that peo
ple may have thought the markings
were part of the show.
“At first, I was really surprised be
cause it seems like an action — no
offense to high school students —
that you would do when you’re real
ly immature and young,” she said.
No authorities were contacted
regarding the incident, and the
photo has since been replaced
with a fresh copy.
—JanMontry
News brief
'Smoker* fights
good fight for YMCA
The annual “Smoker” boxing
event, sponsored by the Office of
Greek Life’s Panhellenic and In
terfraternity councils, raised at
least an estimated $3000 for the
Eugene YMCA.
“We had a big turnout,” said
Jackie Reed, the event’s public re
lations director. “The crowd was
excited, and the boxers were
excited.”
The event featured 14 matches
— 10 male matches and four fe
male matches — Wednesday night.
“The women were quite impres
sive,” Reed said. “They had some of
the more exciting battles.”
Match winners were Adam
Walsh, Krista Gust, Conor Bradley,
Kara McManus, Kenny Taylor,
Yachin Hillebrand, Erin Williams,
James Gardner, Erin Fielder,
Richard Keymolen, Jason Clark,
Niall McCarthy, Brandon Oberlin
and James Kim.
All proceeds went to the YMCA
to help purchase a trailer for pro
gram trips.
MindiRice
Campus buzz
Friday
Finance department seminar, 10 a.m.
noon, 125 Chiles, free, 346-3558.
"Converting Lemons into Lemonade:
Optically Pure Amino Alcohols from
Commercially Available Limonaene
Oxide" (chemistry seminar), 2:30
p.m., 331 Klamath, free.
K-theory and resolutions (mathemat
ics seminar), 4 p.m., 208 Deady.
Student travel presentation, 5:15
p.m., 206 Lawrence, free, 346-2077.
Noah Seitz, cello (master's recital), 6
p.m., Beall Flail, free, 346-5678.
Brenda Lauffenberger, percussion
(senior recital), 9 p.m., Beall Hall,
free, 346-5678.
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