LSA News

No. 62, February, 2005

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Index Spring Festival Time in Beijing by Daphne Wang and Jennifer Rowan GONG-XI FA-CAI! Celebrating the New Year in China by Kaiping Zhang A Short and Thoroughly Incomplete History of Valentine's Day by Dvora Robinson The View From Hidden Spring by Pam DeLaittre Salt by Rose Thomas Dreaming at My Desk by Harriett Smith Michael Gorman to Visit February 4 My Life as a PETA Staff Member by Michelle Page Attention Poets and Poetry Lovers From the Fact File A Call for Artwork Events of Interest People in the Library

Spring Festival time in Beijing

By Jennifer Rowan, as told by Daphne Wang

Growing up in Bejing, life for Daphne Wang and her family was very basic. They had no luxuries, but the annual celebration of the New Year, China's biggest holiday, was always a happy time for both children and adults. In China, the New Year is a time for family members to return home and spend time together, much as families try to do in this country at Christmas. It offers a break from work and from school and plenty of time for children to enjoy entertainments like movies or ice skating on the lakes. Daphne remembers that everyone got new clothes and boys got firecrackers.

The Chinese Lunar New Year has been celebrated for five thousand years. It is also known as the Spring Festival as it was traditionally linked to the coming of spring and renewed fertility of the earth. It also marked an annual target date for getting one's business affairs in order—to pay and collect debts—and to perform a thorough, annual housecleaning of one's home. It was important to be very careful when sweeping the floor for fear that the family's good luck might be accidentally swept out of the house! Large quantities of special dishes for the holiday were prepared two weeks in advance and put outside to freeze. Shops would be closed for the few days of the festival so no late shopping could be done. The primary feast was on New Year's Eve, but over the next few days, many visits were paid as families and coworkers visited each other to give small gifts and pay their respects. Families of veterans were typically offered special consideration and assistance.

Daphne remembers the auspiciously worded New Year's couplets on red paper that were pasted on each side of the front door and New Year paper cut designs pasted on the windows. The couplets were written to offer wishes for longevity, prosperity, happiness and good luck with such phrases as "Happiness, high position and long life" and "May your happiness be as wide as the East Sea." People also used the holiday as an opportunity to visit temples and make offerings of incense and candles to the gods and to pay their respects to their ancestors at home. The New Year's festival was always considered a very lucky time to have a wedding.

Different regions in China have their own characteristic traditions of celebrating the Spring Festival and practices vary between urban and rural populations. In many regions, the ritual of honoring a picture of the Kitchen God with offerings of sweet cakes, fruit and incense was a popular practice. A week before New Year, his portrait was burned along with spirit money to the accompaniment of loud bursts of firecrackers. This sent the god on his journey to heaven where he was expected to make a favorable report on the household and ensure good luck in the next year. On New Year's Eve, a new picture of the god was hung to welcome him back. These practices were discouraged during the Cultural Revolution but tended to persist in the rural areas in some form.

China's traditional calendar, the Xia calendar, is a complicated cross between the Western or Gregorian calendar and a lunar-solar calendar. The first day of the Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the new moon after the sun enters Aquarius. This year, the Chinese New Year falls on February 9th and marks the onset of the Year of the Rooster! For more information about the Chinese New Year, you will enjoy Chinese Traditional Festivals by Marie-Luise Latsch and The Chinese New Year by Cheng Hou-tien or view the videorecording Chinese New Year.

Gong-xi fa-cai! Celebrating the New Year in China

By Kaiping Zhang

Chinese New Year History

The Chinese New Year Festival is the most significant holiday for Chinese people. It is also known as the Spring Festival, which means to celebrate the beginning of spring. The celebration of the Chinese New Year starts on the Lunar New Year's Eve. Family members who are no longer living at home return to their families for a reunion. At that time, family members stay up all night to welcome the New Year, chatting, making dumplings, preparing delicious meals, and exchanging presents, very much like Christmas Eve. Chinese people have long believed that staying awake all night on New Year's Eve will help their parents to live a longer life. One of the most famous legends is that of Nien, an extremely cruel and ferocious beast. It was believed that Nien eats people on New Year's Eve. To keep Nien away, red paper couplets are pasted on doors, torches are lit, and firecrackers are set off throughout the night. Nien is said to fear the color red, the light of fire, and loud noises. Early the next morning, people go out to visit their relatives, neighbors and friends. The most popular greeting is "gong-xi fa-cai," which means "congratulations and wealth."

The Year of the Rooster

This year is the Year of the Rooster. This year, the lunar cycle begins relatively late, on February 9, which means it will not contain lichun, the auspicious day that marks the start of spring. Lichun falls on February 4. Because of this, people in China believe that the Year of the Rooster is a "widow year" or unlucky for wedlock. Couples across China are rushing to get married in the next few days before the Year of the Rooster. The "widow year" is nonsense; however, the fact that people try to avoid it reflects their strong desire for a happy marriage. Are you planning to get married in the Year of Rooster? Then do not do it.

Chinese New Year Superstitions

Certain negative superstitions and taboos have been influencing how people view their lives and the world around them. For example, it is believed that it is unlucky to sweep the floor during the first five days of the Lunar New Year, because one might accidentally sweep his or her good luck and wealth out of the house. People still use brooms to sweep the floor rather than using vacuums. If one happens to break a dish or bowl, it is not a bad thing. People believe that breaking objects in pieces means peace throughout the year. The implied meaning is that once you have lost everything, you have nothing to worry about. This superstition is actually an optimistic way to look at loss and misfortune. It has a great impact on how people deal with crisis in their lives.

I remember that my sister broke the teapot while pouring tea for other guests during a friend's wedding. She felt really bad, as she was afraid this would bring misfortune to the newlyweds or it might mean a breakup of the marriage down the road. To her surprise, the newlywed couple thanked her and said, "We will have good luck and peace." It turned out that this couple has been living together happily after and later had a daughter and son. A perfect family!

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A Short and thoroughly incomplete History of Valentine's Day

Musings on Hope, Love and Chocolate

by Dvora Robinson

It's almost February, the month known both for being short, but not short enough, and for Valentine's Day. Saint Valentine, as you know, is the patron saint of Disappointment. (Until recently there was debate over whether there could be a patron saint of an emotion. But now that the most powerful country in the world (the United States) has declared war on an emotion (Terror), who can argue against a patron saint of Disappointment?). But I digress.

Little is known of St. Valentine's early life, but much has been made of his martyrdom. Val, as he was known then, was challenged by the ______ (insert one: Romans, Secular Humanists, Enemies of Democracy) to admit that despite his faith, he never felt loved in exactly the way that he longed to feel loved. Val denied this valiantly (he could do no less), and attempted to prove it by remaining stoic in the face of grotesque displays of sentimentality. (Some scholars believe that he was tortured with primitive versions of jewelry, greeting card, and long distance carrier advertisements; others claim that it was a debate over the greatness of god's love versus dog's love).

Val withstood the onslaughts as best he could, but eventually felt himself weakening. To shore up his strength, he consumed a massive quantity of slightly stale, foil-wrapped, waxy-textured chocolate candy. Here again hagiographers debate the scientific particulars of his demise. The most widely accepted theory was that Val suffered from diabetes, and that he lapsed almost instantly into a diabetic coma after eating the candy. Non-believers claim that this explains the sweet fragrance that was said to emanate from his lifeless body, while the devout maintain that the fragrance was evidence of his saintliness. Modern scholars have advanced the theory that Val was not diabetic at all, but perished from choking on the tin foil that covered the heart-shaped chocolates. They explain that because of the poor quality of both the foil and the candy, it was difficult to peel off the foil, and to notice the difference in texture and flavor between the foil and the chocolate. They paint a gruesome picture of Val choking on a partially-chewn ball of chocolate and foil, all the while being mocked by _____________ (Liberals, Feminists, Those Who Hate Freedom).

In any case, this brings us to the modern celebration of Saint Valentine's Day. It is the day that all of us, male, female, young and old, realize that we too have never felt loved in exactly the way that we long to feel loved. It is a time when disappointment abounds, for those who are single and those with partners, for the widowed and for the newlywed, for those who have been recently dumped, those who have just reconciled, and those who are completely bewildered by where they stand in relation to their beloved. Just as St. Valentine attempted to bolster his strength by consuming chocolate, we too try to strengthen ourselves, and honor his memory, by consuming chocolate, sending cards, taking each other or ourselves out to dinner, and giving and receiving flowers. And just as St. Valentine fought against feeling unloved, or not sufficiently loved, or just not being as popular as what's-her-name, we too ward off our feelings of inadequacy and existential loneliness by our faith in sugar, Hallmark, and roses.

The View from Hidden Spring

story by Pam DeLaittre

photos by Margot DeLaittre and Kirk Clute

January 2005—where does the time go? Last weekend, on the 16th, we "worked" the ewes. This is a thorough going-over prior to lambing.

"Working"' the sheep involves herding them all into a large stall. Well—not exactly herding, since I rattle a can full of grain and they come running, pushing and shoving in their gestation-based hunger to eat as much of the grain as they can. Once they are corralled, Kirk gets his rope and Margot stations herself with the list of ewe names, the Valbazen oral dewormer, and the vial of "8 way" vaccine. Regardless of size, the ewes all get the same dose of their annual vaccine, which prevents bad things like tetanus, over-eater disease, and six other awful things.

I give this vaccine at this time of year for a reason. In sheep that have been previously vaccinated (and all of mine have been), the blood titer of antibodies rises rapidly in a matter of days or weeks, and timing the shot before lambing assures that their colostrum or "first milk" will also be high in these antibodies. This confers a passive immunity for these diseases to the lambs. Mammals are initially unable to create their own immunity until their immune system matures. With sheep this occurs after about 6-8 weeks of age. It's then the lambs get their own first immunization, followed by a second injection four to six weeks later.

So: Kirk and Margot are ready, and I get to be the one who gives the ewes their injections, and the dewormer, and trims their hooves. I'm the one who gets to bend over somewhere around 70 times for this fun. I take ibuprofen before starting and it sure helps!

As we catch each ewe, Margot hands me the injection, and I find a spot in the ewe's armpit (where there is no fleece growing and the skin is thin) and lightly pinch the skin and pull it slightly away from her body to give the shot subcutaneously. The shots don't hurt or burn, but the girls aren't thrilled about being poked. Fortunately Kirk has a loop around the ewe's neck and a wrap of the rope around a board so she can't move much. The dose of dewormer is calibrated by body weight, with the heavier ewes getting more of the white liquid than the yearling ewes. This I squirt in their mouths with a syringe (without the needle).

Each ewe is checked for "wool blindness"; this is because Romneys do have fleece on their faces. The picture below is of Maria, a sheep whose genetics are from New Zealand breeding. They select for fleece on the faces in N.Z., but it complicates her life by working as blinders to her vision. After taking this picture, I trimmed all the long fleece from around her eyes. She needs to be able to see those little bundles of joy!

Maria

Most of my sheep are "cleaner-faced", as you can see by the following girls' pictures. The dark ewe is Licorice, and the white girl is Scooter (the lamb accidently born last May from "5"—now called "Olive" and living out her life with Betty in North Eugene, being a mower). You can see that while they do have the Romney standard of wool on the face, it is nowhere as prevalent as on Maria's face.

 

Licorice	Scooter

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Salt

by Rose Thomas

Our need for salt is elementary. The adult human body contains enough salt to fill approximately three salt shakers-but we constantly lose salt through various bodily functions. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of sodium is 2400 mg and salt helps maintain the fluid in your blood cells and transmits the electrical impulses between your brain and your nerves and muscles. Salt is used to manufacture over 14,000 products. Salt was first written about in the Bible in the Book of Job—remember Lot's wife who looked back at the city of Sodom and was turned into a pillar of salt when she disobeyed the angels? Salt was used to preserve Egyptian mummies. Roman soldiers were paid "salt money," which is where we take our English word, "salary." Salt has hundreds of uses including making cut flowers last longer and removing the scent from smelly gym shoes. Many recipes advise us to add "salt and pepper to taste" and tasting exotic varieties of salt from all over the world is trendy in the food world today.

What I want is salt, as I was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure, or hypertension. Never mind that I'd just splurged on simultaneous subscriptions to Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines. Or that I was finally getting around to enhancing my spice cabinet by purchasing that enticing NapaStyle Naturally Harvested Salt Collection featuring fleur de sel, Hawaiian red salt, and gray salt from Brittany.

I was immediately prescribed a low dosage of blood pressure medication and encouraged to continue dieting and to reduce my daily intake of salt. But I fantasize about going into a restaurant and ordering a margarita in a salt-rimmed glass and eating a bowl of salted nuts and slowly sipping my drink while I wait for a big, juicy burger with a side of salty French fries to arrive. I'd even settle for a salt lick.

Now I have an internal struggle between what I should eat and what I know I should avoid in my diet. Although I intend to "watch my salt," that doesn't mean to lose the recipes that I love. So, I will share with you the greatest recipe for oven-roasted Brussels sprouts. I happened upon this recipe while watching the Food Network right before Thanksgiving, brought it to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt and uncle's house, and now it's my favorite vegetable side dish. When these little green sprouts come out of the oven their tender halves are roasted brown and the outer leaves that fall onto the baking sheet crisp up like little mini-potato chips. Yes, salting this up like French fries like the recipe calls for is way more salt that I'm now allowed and I'll probably have to pull out the Mrs. Dash. Just enjoy this recipe and make sure you watch the salt for me.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts
From The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook-The Food Network

Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Yield: 6 servings

1 1/2 pounds Brussels sprouts
3 tablespoons good olive oil
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

2. Cut off the brown ends of the Brussels sprouts and pull off any yellow outer leaves. Mix them in a bowl with the olive oil, salt and pepper.

3. Pour them on a sheet pan and roast for 35 to 40 minutes, until crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. Shake the pan from time to time to brown the sprouts evenly.

4. Sprinkle with more kosher salt (Ina likes these salty like French fries), and serve immediately.

Episode#: IG1B12 Copyright © 2003 Television Food Network, G.P., All Rights Reserved

If you'd like to read more about the history of salt, check out:
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (KNIGHT TN900 .K865 2002b) and Neptune's gift : a history of common salt by Robert P. Multhauf (SCIENCE TN900 .M84)

Dreaming at My Desk

by Harriett Smith

The Independent Labour Party of Great Britain and its Socialist pamphlets

The Library has a number of "made up" sets of pamphlets bound together locally. Often the only thing they have in common is the subject, or sometimes the author. There are Pamphlets on Civil Liberties, Pamphlets on Peace, and Pamphlets on Cookery (a personal favourite). Lately I've been cataloging a volume of pamphlets put out by the Independent Labour Party of Great Britain between roughly 1900 and the 1930s. Not to be confused with the Labour Party we know today, the Independent Labour Party was a Socialist party formed in 1893. The party went through a number of incarnations, including disaffiliating itself from the main Labour Party in 1932 and reaffiliating in 1975. As Michael Byers writes (viewed at the the Glasgow Digital Library "Red Clydeside" pages)

The distinctive features of the ILP were that it stood for the political independence of labour rather than its previous political partnership with liberalism, and that it was committed to achieving equality in society by the application of socialist doctrines. From its inception the main objective of the party was "to secure the collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange".

I've found these pamphlets fascinating to peruse, because whether or not one agrees with the collective ownership they advocated, the writers had in mind an objective that many of us still endorse: a better world for everyone and not just those who are rich. In the pamphlet What a Socialist Town Council Would Do is the "Children's Charter". Under a Socialist town council, the pamphlet says, "No child would be unfed", "No child would be unattended in illness", "No child need be ignorant", "No child need be homeless". The pamphlet goes on to lay out a program of housing and medical care for the aged and the sick, along with a plan of schemes of public work for the unemployed, and gives an overview of how this is all to be accomplished. Other pamphlets from this era mention "a living wage", something still seen as radical and still being fought for by many groups.

My favourite from this volume is Socialism for Beginners, written by Katharine Bruce Glasier. She writes charmingly and persuasively in this little pamphlet, dedicated to her son,

I think I had better begin our pamphlet on "Socialism for Beginners" with the question: "What do Socialists want?" When I have answered it I am sure every happy child and kind-hearted man and woman in the kingdom will cry "I want that too." For, listen, we Socialists want that there should be plenty of good food and warm, bright-coloured clothing for everyone, not only on Christmas Day or on Sundays, but on every day in the week, and that every father and mother in the land with their children should have a comfortable home to live in with a pleasant garden near, so that fresh air and sunshine may come in at the windows. With Socialists it is "first things first". We ask the rulers of our day as Jesus asked those of His day "Have you fed the hungry, clothed the naked, cared for the fatherless and widow?"

During these same decades, groups in the United States were also trying to improve the life of the "working class". Take a look, for instance, at some of the Pamphlets on Housing. For most of us in the U.S. and U.K., conditions in general seventy to a hundred years on are much improved. Yet in all the world there still don't seem to be any countries in which even one or two of these goals of adequate food, shelter, warmth, and clothing for all (let alone education and employment for all) have been truely fulfilled.

February is the month of Love—the month of Valentine's Day, a holiday of which I am much enamoured. It is also the month of the State Employee's Food Drive, which locally will benefit Food for Lane County. Even though some state employees themselves have recourse to food boxes, as a group we University of Oregon employees, both faculty and staff, tend to be generous, and to help "feed the hungry and cloth the naked" throughout the year by participating in various charitable drives. While urging you to continue this loving tradition, I also urge you to ponder why it is still necessary in our country. The words of many of these British Socialist tracts sound like something that might be found on the internet or in the "letters to the editor" of any newspaper today:

Every intelligent Liberal and Tory knows that there could be food and clothing and shelter for all if the resources of the country were used for the benefit of the community. They know that a nation that can be organised for war can be organised for peace; but they are unwilling to face the consequences of their knowledge, because if they did there would be an end to the unearned privileges of the rich.
       —Jowett, F. W. Socialism in Our Time, London, Independent Labour Party, 1926.

Other pamphlets in the volume of miscellaneous publications of the ILP include titles such as Socialism and Human Nature; The Workers' Hell; The Capitalist Press : Who Owns it and Why; Socialism & Service; and Women and Socialism. Although written so many years ago, they still make provocative reading. On the shelf in Knight Library at JS3111.A95 1924.

Gorman to Visit on February 4

American Library Association President-Elect Michael Gorman, one of the library world's most eloquent visionaries, will present his insights on "The Library Today and Tomorrow" on Friday, February 4, at 11 a.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room.

Gorman is currently Dean of Library Services at California State University, Fresno. His former positions include acting university librarian at the University of Illinois and dean of cataloguing at the British National Bibliography. He was a member of the British Library Planning Secretariat and head of the Office of Bibliographic Standards in the British Library. He has taught at library schools in Britain and the United States, most recently at the University of California, Los Angeles.

He is the first editor of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second and revised editions (1978, 1988) and the author of The Concise AACR2, third edition (1999). Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality, co-written with Walt Crawford, was honored with the 1997 Blackwells Scholarship Award. Our Enduring Values, published by ALA in 2000, was the winner of ALA's 2001 Highsmith Award for the best book on librarianship. His most recent book is The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition and the Quest for Balance (2003).

Michael Gorman's appearance is sponsored by the UO Libraries' Library Staff Development Committee.

My Life As A PETA Staff Member

by Michelle Page

For those of you who haven't spent much time away from the beautiful Pacific Northwest, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you how truly blessed we are to live in a progressive community nestled in one of the most beautiful places on earth. I recently returned from a five-month leave of absence, during which I ventured to the Atlantic Ocean to see what life is like on the other coast of the United States.

Beginning in September 2004, I lived and worked in Norfolk, Virginia, in the public library of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It is a modest library, as far as libraries go. Well, ok, modest may not be the right word. "Tiny" might be a more accurate description of this specialized library, at least when compared to the miles of books that fill the shelves of the Knight library. It is, however, the largest animal rights library in the world, and a very important resource for the staff of PETA and other organizations.

The collection contains just over 3000 books, with active subscriptions to about 200 periodicals. Rows of file cabinets and shelves filled with oversized black archive binders took up over half of the room. Because it is a public library, we responded to information requests from students, researchers, journalists, and others around the world looking for information on animal exploitation topics ranging from dissection in the classroom, donkey basketball games, animal abuse at circuses and zoos, to the environmental and health consequences of eating meat and the horrific abuse of animals in modern-day meat production.

I worked on creating and updating research packs of key articles on popular topics for students who contacted the library looking for research assistance. One of my main duties was to help create and maintain the PETA archives. Every article in the press that mentions PETA is archived chronologically in binders and distributed to all staff via email. Three days a week we created and sent out a PDF of all of the relevant news clippings to PETA's staff members to keep everyone up to date. I spent a good deal of my time sorting through incoming news articles and press releases, photocopying, and scanning articles to create digital files that were full-text searchable. The ultimate goal is to digitize their entire collection of articles dating back to the early 1980's, which will be a massive undertaking.

In addition to the usual tasks of working in a library, I also helped animals in my spare time through direct outreach and education. Because over 10 billion (yes, that's billion with a "b") animals are killed for food every year in the U.S., I spent some of my weekends handing out free vegan food at festivals in Norfolk and Virginia Beach and passing out free vegetarian starter kits. Every time we sit down at the table, we have the opportunity to take a stand against violence. And as Albert Einstein said, "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

I spent every Wednesday evening volunteering at the weekly work party, where a small army of volunteers comes together to stuff envelopes, assemble education packs, make phone calls and, of course, share vegan food! I also went to North Carolina and delivered bales of straw and food to very cold, unfortunate dogs, whose "guardians" kept them locked outside without shelter, often chained at the neck for their entire miserable lives. Providing free straw and doghouses each winter for neglected dogs is one of many services PETA provides to the community.

As much as I enjoyed my job and loved the satisfaction of helping animals, I knew I'd have to return to my home, the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I'm very thankful for the opportunity I had and for all that I learned. I'm glad to be back and I look forward to sharing some of the skills and information I learned out east with people in this community. One thing I learned during this experience is that it doesn't matter where you live. Whether it's on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, New York City or in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, we can all make better-informed choices and small changes in our daily lives, which help save animals' lives and help improve the qualities of all of our lives in the process.

If anyone has any specific questions I'd be glad to answer them. Otherwise there is a whole world of information out there with easy tips and suggestions on how to help animals. PETA has a very extensive website, http://www.peta.org/. It launched a fabulous new vegetarian cooking website, www.vegcooking.com, with hundreds of delicious recipes and ideas. And for a short, compelling video on why we should all consider vegetarianism, please check out http://www.goveg.com/feat/chewonthis/.

Attention Poets and Poetry Lovers

Have you written poetry? Do you have a favorite poem or two? Let us know if you might be interested in submitting some poetry for publication in our upcoming Poetry Issue of LSA News. In addition, we'd like to find out what poems are the personal favorites of the staff and faculty of UO Libraries. We'd like to compile a collection of poems that are special favorites of our staff and faculty. Just tell us the names of the poets and poems you'd like us to consider. You might wish to include the poem(s) in your message, or we'll track down the poetry ourselves.

Jennifer Hufman Wins Fact File

In our January Fact File, we asked you to tell us give us the professional names that ten music makers have used in their performing careers. We were impressed that eight staff members correctly determined the identities of all ten musicians. Chosen at random, our winner is Jennifer Hufman of Facilities and Purchasing, who will be receiving a gift certificate worth $5.00 toward purchases at the UO Bookstore. Bravo also to Debi Baker, Colleen Bell , Carol Lenocker, Jen Lindsey, Victoria Mitchell, Rick Peterson and Beth Singler, who also didn't miss a beat in this contest.

You can revisit the clues in the January LSA News Fact File.

The Answers:

1. Queen Latifah
2. Patsy Cline
3. Bob Dylan
4. Joni Mitchell
5. Irving Berlin
6. Dr. Dre
7. Beverly Sills
8. 50 Cent
9. Tom Jones
10. John Denver

A Call for Artwork

Calling all artists and photographers. If you have a photograph or a piece of artwork you've created that you would like to see displayed in an upcoming issue of LSA News, please submit it in digital format to Laura Damiani. Feel free to submit multiple pieces. We will make every effort to include these works in future issues, as space allows.

Winter Sunset 2004, Oregon Coast by Jennifer Rowan

Events of Interest

LSA EVENTS

No LSA events are scheduled for February.

NON-LSA EVENTS

Lori Robare recommends Art Amoré, a fundraiser benefitting the New Zone Artists Collective and Impact! Arts. The event will take place Friday, February 11, 2005 from 6 p.m. to midnight. It will be "a unique evening of art and entertainment held in the warm and friendly atmosphere of the Eugene Wine Cellars" (located at 255 Madison in Eugene), and will include live music, paintings and sculpture on display, silent movies, special guest Mayor Kitty Piercy, and a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception. Tickets are $10 in advance (available from Eugene Wine Cellars, Tsunami Books, and Museum of Unfine Art and Record Store) or $12 at the door.

David Landazuri and Harriett Smith invite you to join the Eugene Sacred Harp Singers on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at the Shedd. We'll be singing from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. as part of the Society for American Music conference. We'll also be singing on Friday, February 25, 2005 at DIVA (Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, at 110 W. Broadway) beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Harriett also urges you to catch the Eugene Symphony performance on Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 8 p.m. Featured is Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky", with soloist Milagro Vargas. Their web site calls it "a monster work for orchestra and chorus written for the Eisenstein film classic Alexander Nevsky." It's stirring to sing and should be amazing to hear.

People in the Library

Welcome Back:

Michelle Page has returned from a leave of absence from the Libraries during which she worked for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in Norfolk, Virginia. Michelle is a Library Technician in the Circulation Unit of Access Services. Before assuming that position in August 2003, Michelle worked in Current Periodicals/Stacks, Image Services, and the Knight Library mail room. Welcome back, Michelle!

photo by Terry McQuilkin

Goodbye:

Congratulations:

Faye Chadwell, Head, Collection Development & Acquisitions, and Corey Harper, Catalog Management & Enrichment Team Leader in Metadata and Digital Library Services were honored at the University's 600 million-dollar fundraising kick-off ceremony at the Mashovsky Center on Saturday evening, January 29. The sold-out dinner for 1,100 guests was a star-studded, Hollywood-themed event that fed and feted donor elites while highlighting the contributions of a few handpicked academic "stars" of the University. Way to go, Faye and Corey!

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Send us a brief report for publication in the next newsletter. Thanks!

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