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• Kudos to Sarah Ciampa, exhibits
coordinator of Maude Kerns Art
Center, who hung the work of 150
member artists in the Art for All
Seasons exhibit now covering the
walls of the old church on East 15th
Avenue. It’s a non-juried show in which
member artists are allowed one or two
pieces each, and it was up to Ciampa
to put it all together. The opening on
Nov. 15 was so crowded that you could
hardly see the art, but the show is
open until Dec. 20. Club Mud also has
its ceramics holiday sale at the same
time inside the art center.
• It’s freezing this week, and the
good people who volunteer with the
Egan Warming Center are opening
doors across town for unhoused
people. Across the street from
Eugene Weekly, Eric Jackson’s
homeless protest camp has settled
in for another week. We understand
the businesses are affected by
camps such as these, with issues
from sanitation to safety. But just
chasing unhoused people away
means those with nowhere to be
just move to another spot. We need
solutions. The people in camps along
the streets, under overpasses and
along the river are homeless people,
not the “homeless.” Each person
has their own story and reasons
for how they got into this situation.
Homeless people are not the problem,
and getting angry at them is not a
solution. There is no silver bullet, no
single way to address this problem.
EW is a paper in search of solutions,
and this community — from this
paper, to individuals to businesses
to elected officials and government
offices — needs to work together to
fix the society and system that has
created this situation.
• Is lying ever OK? That’s a
relevant question for children to
talk about today, according to
three speakers at the City Club
of Eugene on Nov. 15. Led by Paul
Bodin, a highly respected educator
from both 4J and the University of
Oregon; Caroline Lundquist, a UO
philosophy professor; and Carly
Leavitt, a fifth grade teacher, they
described their experiences teaching
children philosophy. Between 2013
and 2019, the UO departments of
philosophy and education studies
collaborated with 4J schools to offer
weekly philosophy lessons to more
than 2,500 children, ages 7-12. They
talked about ethics, environmental
studies, epistemology, metaphysics,
gender identity, aesthetics, and race.
As Bodin put it, “children are natural
philosophers.”
• EW made its pro wrestling debut
at POW! Pro Wrestling’s Nov. 17
show. During the main event tag
team elimination match, “King of Pop
Culture” HBQ asked Dr. Kliever of
No Lives Matter for an autograph of
EW’s Nov. 5 issue. Now, Kliever didn’t
like this because in the photo he
was the victim of the dreaded camel
clutch. Kliever signed the EW but then
struck HBQ. The newspaper lasted
seconds in the ring before it was torn
to shreds. Check out the video at
EugeneWeekly.com. Will EW return to
the squared circle at POW!’s Jan. 12
show at the UO’s Gerlinger Hall? We
don’t know but we’re putting hours in
at the gym just in case.
• A lot of Eugene Weekly readers
are big Sudoku fans. So big that
when we miss a puzzle we get calls,
emails and even handwritten notes
that say the puzzlers are distraught
without their Sudoku. We hear you!
But we used up all our Sudokus from
our previous puzzle provider and
they are not getting back to us on
more. So we found a local Oregon
puzzle writer and we are going to try
her out. The puzzle is a bit different
— using letters not numbers — but
give it a chance. Then let us know
what you think (editor@eugeneweekly.
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something else. The new puzzle starts
next week.
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