Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Speaker Helen Suzman focused on racism in Africa in her speech Will South Africa Survive? at La-Sells Stewart Center on November 19. Listening intently to a lecture on 18th Century religion and education by speaker Pat Bonomi are. Tina Black, freshman in Education and Traci Tuley. freshman in Business. John Murrin concentrated on his speech in front of the podium on December 3. MICH AFX DOWLESS “A religious primer was the educational tool of the revolutionary period, said Patricia V. Bonomi, professor of History at New York University in a lecture on religion and education in the 18th century 24 • SPEAKERS ON CAMPUS

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DEBBIE WEATHERS Caroline Phillips, freshman in Forestry, is President of the Native American Student Association. After a rough day of classes it is nice to have a quiet place to go relax with the Barometer and lunch as Carol Brunoe, senior in liberal arts illustrates. Not an over-imposing building, the Native American Longhouse rests quietly on the corner of College Drive and Jefferson Way. right next to Moreland Hall. DEBBIE WEATHERS DEBBIE WEATHERS DEBBIE WEATHERS Even though she is on sabbatical. Educational Opportunities Program counselor Joyce Greiner still enjoys spending time with the students at the Longhouse. NATIVE AMERICAN LONGHOUSE • 23

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INTROD II SITTING STILL AND LISTENING TO THEORIES LEADS TO NEW DISCUSSIONS E ALL THOUGHT we had something better to do. Anything. It was enough to have to struggle through a 7:30 AM lecture and now we were expected to enjoy a 7:30 PM one too? We sat. At least LaSells sported cushy seating arrangements. I guess we sat up a little straighter knowing we were about to get “cultured.” and maybe we thought we might run into friends of our parents who would speak well of us. The introduction was made. The speaker approached the microphone. We slunk down into our seats, rested notebooks on our knees and readied our pencils to take notes that would send our professor into fits. Then the speaker spoke. The Ava Helen Pauling Lecture for World Peace hosted Nobel Peace Prize recipient Adolpho Perez Esquivel on October 28. A former professor of architecture, the Argentinian spoke on the defense of human rights. He blamed most of Latin America’s problems on both the United States and the Soviet Union. “The superpowers split the earth like an orange,” he stated. They decided (who would go where), but they didn’t ask us where we wanted to be.” Esquivel could not understand how such a rich America could send millions of dollars to the Contras in Nicaragua while people in their own country were without homes and starving. “Democracy means that in no worker’s home is the food lacking, there are adequate resources available for all people to cover their needs and health and education and housing, he believed. On October 29 Harriet Braiker, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist from Los Angeles, provided information on stress management. “Women believe that their failure is due to a lack of ability and their success due to good luck,” Braiker claimed. “Men attribute success to their own ability and failure to outside factors. The emphatic woman warned the Type “E” women not to let all problems rest on their shoulders. “A Type “E” women produces a self-perpetuating cycle leading to more activity and more demands upon herself while her resources are spread thinner.” she said. “The Type “E woman is a recipe for disaster. The solution lies in changing your relationship within yourself.” Patricia Bonomi, professor of history at New York University, addressed the topic of religion and education in the 18th century on November 10. A common tool of the revolutionary period was a book only 2 V2 by 3 inches in size called a primer. The New England primer, one of the most popular editions, was printed in 11-12 million copies during the years 1690-1830. The primer contained strong catechetical inferences and the alphabet, sounding lists, vocabulary lessons and reading passages through the words and ideas of Christianity. There was no difference in religions as to content, the differences were in the denominational lines,” Bonomi noted. “Books were 80-100 percent religious. Religious pictures, rhymes, verses, poems. and “The Lord’s Prayer” were almost always included.” The Central Intelligence Agency was represented on November 17 by Arthur Hulnick. “I would say that 90 percent of what we do is involved somehow with the collection and analysis of information,” he pointed out. When prodded about subjects such as Central America and “the business of catching spies” he either avoided a direct answer or claimed the FBI was responsible. “I’m talking about deception or misinformation, Hulnick said, putting all of his speech making techniques into practice. Helen Suzman, spokeswoman for the Progressive Federal Party of the South African Parliament spoke to the subject: “Will South Africa Survive?” “Yes,” she affirmed, “but there is no quick fix for South Africa and no one should assume it can’t get worse. The conflict in South Africa would take a long time to become resolved because the racial system was the foundation of its society. The whites feared that granting full legal rights to the black majority would destroy their authoritarian position. The majority of the blacks would not be likely to settle for anything less. And then it was over. People were getting up and putting on their coats. Conversation filtered over the subject and then drifted off into personal discussions. Vre all looked at our notebooks and then looked at each other. We all thought we had something better to do. We now Jcnew that anything else would have been the worst thing to do. □ by Lindy Humphreys SPEAKERS ON CAMPUS • 25