DEAD
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“It is a time when everybody comes
together — the living and the dead,"
Morales said.
Traditional foods are prepared
and eaten during these two days,
and most popular is the "pan de
muerto" (bread of the dead), a rich
coffee cake topped with bone
shaped meringue that sometimes
holds a plastic skeleton inside,
which is said to bring good luck to
the person who bites into it. Other
foods include spicy meat dishes,
egg-batter bread, candies shaped
into animals and skulls and a dessert
made from pumpkin, cinnamon
and dark sugar cones.
Morales grew up celebrating the
Day of the Dead in Guanajuato,
Mexico, and he has continued this
tradition in Eugene. He is communi
ty advisor for the University student
group MEChA, which will be host
ing the 23rd annual Day of the Dead
event on campus. A celebration with
poetry, music and an exhibition of
Hispanic ceramics with take place
on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in the EMU Fir
Room. Mexican ceramic artists Mar
tine and Bias Guevara will show
their work and speak. Both have
taught free workshops on creating
death-themed Hispanic pottery for
the past two weeks.
The Maude Kems Art Center, locat
ed at 1910 E. 15th Ave., is also exhibit
ing art for Dfa de los Muertos. The dis
play will run until Nov. 14 and
features a mix of traditional and con
temporary pieces. Included in the
show are eight locally created altars,
photographs of Day of the Dead cele
brations in Mexico, skeleton paintings
and skeleton creations in papier
mache and pottery. Maude Kems co
ordinator Tina Schrager said the event
is quite popular in town.
"It takes on it's own character
here," she said. "It's a blend of Eu
gene and Mexico."
Nontraditional Di'a de los Muer
tos art dominates the show and in
cludes a Japanese-themed altar dis
playing handguns and bullets.
Schrager said the show highlights
the festive spirit of the holiday.
"The show is light and playful," she
said. 'The incorporation of nontradi
tional pieces expands and enriches it."
The show is open Monday through
Friday from 10 a m. to 5:30 p.m. and
on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.
While Dia de los Muertos is rooted
in Mexico, its transition into other
cultures has changed the methods of
celebration. I lowever, Moore said the
holiday has remained a happy occa
sion throughout its integration.
'It honors family and loved
ones," he said. "It is a time of respect
and joy."
Contact the Pulse reporter
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@dailyemerald.com.
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least as much makeup) ?
Of course, there are laws against
corporations owning too much.
However, recent legislation — such as
the Federal Communications Com
mission's June 2 vote that decided to
further deregulate corporations,
(since overturned) — continues to at
tempt to loosen these laws, which I
suggest aren't working very well as is.
Let's see, there's CNN, MSNBC,
CNBC, FOX News and what else? Is
this it for diversity in news coverage?
Help me out here. There's probably a
few more.
So far, you may have noticed that I've
chosen to focus solely on television
news. "Well, what about the printed
word?," you ask. "Isn't there any integrity
left in that?" To which I answer, "Yes, but
it isn't in one of most of those blue or
yellow boxes you find on street comers."
It may not even be in the green one
Of course the sensationalism claim
is slightly more difficult to make re
garding the printed word. A newspaper
story is more lengthy, uses a (slightly)
higher vocabulary level and requires at
least SOME modicum of objectivity. So
here I'll take issue not with reporting
methods but again with what's being
reported and what isn't.
I think one "big picture" we tend to
overlook is that we aren't always the
good guys. But we cannot shy away
from this, and this is precisely what
"the news" tends to ignore. Yes, we
can be the very same enemies we
claim to be fighting against. Here is an
excerpt from an Oct. 12 story that ran
in The Independent, a British newspa
per that can be found at
http:// www. independent, co. uk/:
"U.S. soldiers driving bulldozers,
with jazz blaring from loudspeakers,
have uprooted ancient groves of date
palms as well as orange and lemon
trees in central Iraq as part of a new
policy of collective punishment of
farmers who do not give information
about guerrillas attacking U.S. troops."
Who would, in a million years, see
this on any corporate news network?
No, this doesn't fit the story they want
to tell; it makes the plot too sloppy and
the characters more than one-dimen
sional. So how about this, from an Oct.
9 story in the Independent Media Cen
ter at http://www.indymedia.org/:
"While the corporate media were
regurgitating the Bush administra
tion's lies about Weapons of Mass De
struction and giving Saddam Hus
sein's Human Rights Abuses record
prominent play, what went unreport
ed was the fact that people like Paul
Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld,
William Kristol and Dick Cheney
have been putting together a plan for
American Military Occupation of the
Middle East and control of the re
gion's oil for decades."
From these small snippets, 1 conclude
that we must search for news outlets
that provide us with depth and factual
information — not just homogenized
nonsense. Let's get away from these dra
mas and fictions, start finding the truth
and speaking it loud and dear so peo
ple can finally hear something different
than the sanitization of what's really go
ing on. Until this happens, don't bdieve
what you hear or read.
Contact the Pulse editor
at aaronshakra@dailyemerald.com.
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represent those of the Emerald.
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