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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.