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Oregon Clean Air Act takes form around campus Sports: Cougars show up the four-year schools Page 3 Page 7 Vol. XVII, No. 1 Series looks at Path to Peace' By Steve Lundgren For The Print A different culture will be explored in the upcoming fall lecture series, “Understanding the Soviets: A Path to Peace,” featuring noted regional ex perts on the Soviet Union. The series, to be held in Clackamas Community Col lege’s McLoughlin Theater, will investigate Soviet society- from the country’s political and military establishment to ethnic and everyday lifestyles,, as well as from an American viewpoint. The lectures were to be opened with a one-night presentation on Sept. 25 by a group of 20 Soviet represen tatives. The visitation was cancelled due to the interrup tion of all Soviet flights to the West after the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 on Sept. 1 (see related story this page). However, the series has not been cancelled despite such rumors, says Margaret Charters, library department chairperson at the College and program organizer. A total of eight speakers will come to the College dur ing October and November. The series will be opened Oct. 5 with its title lecture by Dr. Donald W. Treadgold, history department chairperson and professor of East European a prelude to the Clackamas studies at the University of Community College lecture Washington. series, “Understanding the The following week Dr. Soviets: A Path to Peace.” Basil Dmytryshyn, history The presentation was to professor at Portland State be the group’s only stop in the « University and native Ukra- United States and was spon nian, will discuss the Soviet sored in part by the Oregon military establishment. Other Council of American-Soviet lectures will cover Soviet friendship. politics, human rights in the The cancellation, though U.S.S.R., and Siberia. related to the Korean Airlines The lecture series is the incident, was not a political brainchild of Charters, who result, but rather it was after visiting the U.S.S.R. and because of the stoppage of all attending the College’s nuclear flights of the Soviet airlines arms freeze convocation last Aeroflot to America, accor year felt compelled to take ding to Margaret Charters, some sort of action. library department chairper “I kept thinking, ‘I’ve got son at the College. to do something (about the nuclear threat). What can I do Scheduled visitors cancel due to Aeroflot banning A lecture presentation on Soviet culture that was to be given Sept. 5 by a group of 20 visiting Soviet representatives was cancelled after the down ing of Korean Airlines 007 on Sept. 1. The group included workers, educators, scientists, doctors, regional government officials, two opera singers and a pianist from the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow. The group planned to discuss Soviet culture, in cluding its art, literature, history technology, education system and government. The presentation was scheduled as as an individual?’ ” Charters said. She applied for and received a grant from the Oregon Commission for the Humanities to sponsor the series. Matching funds were provided by the College. And promotion and assistance were provided by Clackamas Coun ty libraries and the Oregon Council of American-Soviet Friendship. freeze,” Charters said. “It is on the understanding of a peo ple from a different cultural, ethnical, political and economic background from ours. It is necessary for us to make every effort within our power to make peace with ourselves and the world,” Charters said. Charters believes the series will be well received and “The purpose (of the said she has had many positive series),” Charters said, “is calls along with a few negative represented in the title comments about the upcoming (Understanding The Soviets: event. Her only fear stems A Path to Peace), and is to at-, from the rumor that the series tempt to promote an has been cancelled. understanding of the Soviets, “I’ve been horrified by their culture, language the number of instructors who literature^nd history and their have come to me believing the military establishment.” Pro series to be cancelled,” she moting this understanding of said. each other’s culture, Charters The lecture series will believes, “is one way to bring begin Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. and a about peace. different speaker will appear “The emphasis of this each Wednesday through series is not on the nuclear Nov. 30 (excluding Nov. 23). Calendar of events Wednesday, Oct. 5..............Soccer vs. Lewis and Clark, here 4 p.m. “Understanding the Soviets: A Path to Peace,'' McLoughlin Theater, 7:30 p.m., Free. Thursday, Oct. 6 ...............“Being Single Again, ” Com munity Center, 7-10 p.m., $3. “Weaving, Drawing and Pot tery, ” Bagby Lobby Pauling Center, 7p.m. Friday, Oct. 7.................. . .........Movie: “First Blood, ” 7:30 p.m., Community Center Mall. Saturday, Oct. 8................Men's and Women's Cross Country at Willamette Invita tional, Bush Park. Tuesday, Oct. 11...............Movie: “Chinatown, ''part of fall film series, “The World of Crime,''McLoughlin Theater, 2:30 p.m. and 6:30p.m., Free.
