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NEWS BRIEF
California’s Cienfuegos
to hold lecture, workshop
on anti-corporate activism
Activist Paul Cienfuegos will be jn
Eugene today and Saturday to deliver
a lecture on curbing corporate busi
ness ownership and to conduct a me
dia workshop on how to democrati
cally take control of corporately
owned media outlets.
Today at 7 p.m. in Pacific 123,
Cienfuegos will deliver a lecture about
his work with the city of Areata Com
mittee on Democracy and Corpora
tions. Cienfuegos' actions helped lead
to the creation of a government com
mittee that, in 2002, passed a ban on
any new corporate chain restaurants
in that California city
Saturday, from 2 p.m.- 5 p.m. in
Columbia 44, Cienfuegos will con
duct a media workshop discussing
tactics and strategies to take control of
corporately owned news stations and
newspapers.
The lecture and workshops are
hosted by Money is Not Democracy
and the Justice Not War Coalition.
MIND is currently working to get a
statewide initiative on the ballot
that would prohibit corporate con
tributions to candidates in Oregon
elections.
— Jared Paben
BOOKS
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books to accompany her own.
"If someone is only using a book
that they've written, that could be
perhaps problematic," Wasko said.
"I don't know what other professors
do, but I use a book that I've written.
I always use a lot of other readings
because I think that's an important
point that there should be a lot of
perspectives presented. I never just
use my own book."
Philosophy Professor Mark John
son, who has studied and taught
ethics, explained that teachers con
stantly deal with the issue of pre
senting a full range of issues, which
is difficult in a 10-week course. Pro
fessors who do issue their own ma
terials have a responsibility to point
out the work's objections or coun
terpoints, he added.
Assistant Professor of journalism
Kim Sheehan said she wrote a
book for her Advertising and Soci
ety class primarily because "a lot of
books are very critical of advertis
ing and don't present a very bal
anced look at why the advertisers
do what they do.
"What I tried to do in my book
was provide a lot of different an
gles," she said. "I agree that if I
wrote a book about my opinion
and lectured on it, it wouldn't be
valuable for students. That's one of
the reasons I wrote the book, is be
cause I think students need to hear
other opinions."
Journalism Associate Professor
Tom Wheeler wrote a textbook for a
class on manipulating media photos
because he said there was very little
published on the subject.
He added that it is good for pro
fessors to let students know when
information is his or her opinion
and when their opinions are in
agreement or disagreement with
others in the field. Wheeler said
professors can expose students to
differing viewpoints by bringing in
guest lecturers.
Despite the concerns about profes
sors using their own texts, some in
structors and students say there are
advantages to this practice.
Davis said that when professors
write books for their classes, it helps
build their credibility in the student's
eyes. Also, it means the text will per
fectly suit the class.
Associate Professor in visual com
munications Julie Newton said by
publishing her book she's able to en
sure that students get the information
she thinks is important.
"The other advantage is that many
of us on the faculty are doing cutting
edge work and the only option for
getting that cutting edge thinking to
students is to... write our own book,"
she said.
Students had a variety of
perspectives on the issue.
Sophomore Dirk Von Schnei
demesser said he's had his instruc
tors write parts of the reading mate
rial for class.
"If you had a class where you stud
ied nothing but the teacher's material
that'd be kind of shady, if you ask
me," he said. "If it's some theory that
the teacher made up the/re trying to
get the students to understand, obvi
ously the teacher's materials are going
to be appropriate."
Sophomore psychology student
Ryan Davis said it doesn't really mat
ter whose text they assign because
choosing the text is a product of the
professor's opinion anyway.
"I think it might actually be good
that they teach their own text
book," he said, explaining that they
would thoroughly understand
what's in it.
Claire Hugo, a senior studying
psychology and business, said it's
beneficial to have a textbook writ
ten by another author because it
opens a student's mind to other
perspectives. On the other hand,
she's had classes with discrepancies
between the lectures and reading,
she said.
"The positive side to that is the text
and the lectures would correlate per
fectly," she said.
Contact the peopie/cutture/
faith reporter
at jaredpaben@daityemerald.com.
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office," she said, adding that her posi
tion is more administrative, and the
associate position provides more of
an advising role for students.
Gary said she understands why stu
dents are concerned that this position
is not being filled, especially since the
funding is available.
"The students are concerned, and
understandably, that this appears to
be contrary to the notion that we sup
port diversity," she said.
The administration chose not to
immediately fill the position and al
low the new vice provost to aid in the
construction of leadership roles for di
versity issues.
Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Studies Karen Sprague said the posi
tion of associate director was original
ly created to assist with the daily op
erations of the office. The director
position is a part-time post that also
includes part-time work as the Uni
versity advocate.
Now that the associate director is
gone, however, Sprague said the of
fice's director will be able to work in
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that position full time.
"It seems to me that the new vice
provost would be able to pick up that
advocacy work," she said.
Sprague added that this allows
for the new vice provost to have
some flexibility as he takes on his
new role.
"To me, this is a very good situa
tion for him to enter," she said,
adding that once the new vice
provost is established, he may de
cide the associate director position is
necessary after all.
But Le said the administration isn't
showing a commitment to adding po
sitions that support diversity when
"they cut one and hire another."
Padoongpatt said students of color
want to feel included by being con
nected with others who understand
their backgrounds and by being part
of the decision-making process of di
versity issues.
"We just need our support system
as well as every other student needs
their support system," he said.
Contact the higher education/student
life/student affairs reporter
at chelseaduncan@dailyemerald.com.
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