Wednesday, cpril 20, 1977
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short stuff
A representative from
the Veterans Administration
(VA) regional office will be
in Nebraska Union 228
from 11 to noon today to
answer questions about VA
benefits.
The Nebraska Union
Advisory Board will meet at
7 tonight in Union 203.
The Engineering Toast
masters will meet at 5:30
tonight in Nebraska Engin
eering Center 241.
The UNL Young Demo
crats will meet at 9 tonight
in Union 345. '
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The Mexican American
Student Association
(MASA) is sponsoring
Cultural Awareness Days
1977. The theme is
"Hispanos in the Midwest:
A Multicultural Legacy."
MASA is presenting speak
ers, panels, films, dance and
an art exhibition today
through Sunday at UNL. All
events are free unless other
wise indicated.
calendar
12:45 pjn.-Underwood
School, Union North Con
ference Room.
1:30 pjn.-Mexican
American Student Associa
tion Cultural Days "Leo
Estrada" Union 242.
1:30 p.m.-Mini-Univer-sity
"Working Parents,"
Union 222.
. 1 ;3Q pjn.-Admissions-,
German Exchange Students,
Union 232.
-4 p.m.-Booster Yell
Squad Interviews, Union
South Conference Room.
4 p.m.-Speech Com
munication Reading Hour,
Union 232.
5:30 pjn.-Gamma
Lambda, , Union Harvest
Room A.
5:30
pjn.-Engineering
Toastmastenj
Union Har-
vest Room C.
6:3Q pjn.-ASUN Sen
ate Meeting, Union 202.
- 7:30 pjn.-Nebraska
Union Advisory Board,
Union 203.
7 pjn.-A.I.E.S.E.C,
Union Auditorium.
7 pjn.-Nebraska Human
Resources 1 Foundation
Pi).?., Union 222.
7 pjm. - Junior 1FC,
Union 337.
7:30 pjn.-Mexican
American Student Associa
tion Cultural Days "Henry
Casso," Union 242.
7:30 pjn.-Math Coun
selors, Union 225 B-C.
Nebraska East Union
8 ajn. to 5 pjn. Up
date seminar, Nebraska East
Union Great Plains Room.
Noon-Extension Home
Economics Coordinating
Committee, Columbine
Room.
3 pjn.-Water resource
seminar, Cottonwood
Room.
3 pjn.-National Execu
tive Housekeepers Associa
tion, Sycamore Room.
3 pjn.-Southeast Com
munity College. Sunflower
Room.
'5:30 pjn,-East Union
Program . Council, Cotton
wood Room.
6:30 p .in -Rodeo Club,
Cchartine Room.
The Student Slavic Com
mittee will debate "The
Role of Ideology in the
Soviet Context" at 3:30 to
day in Oldfather Hall 538.
The UNL. Accounting
Club will meet at 3:45
today in the Union. Room
number will be posted.
Beef, steak consumers are
asked to give their opinion
of steak samples and they
will be given a free ice
cream cone from the UNL
Dairy Store on East Cam
pus. Persons interested
should stop at Food and
Nutrition Bldg. 115 at 2:45
p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays.
The Nomads Youth
Hostel Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. Thursday in the
Union. Room number will
be posted.
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By Sharon Frchncr
Audre Lorde, who calls herself a "black woman warrior
poet," said all a poet can do is use her own experiences in
her writing.
Lords, a teacher of poetry at John J. College of
Criminal Justice In New York, also teaches poetry classes
at the Poets' Center, conducts workshops, and docs read
ings around the country. She has traveled in the eastern
United States, Africa, Mexico and Russia. Lorde gave a
poetry readiag Monday nlsht at the Nebraska Union.
She has written two bocks of poetry and was the co
winner of the National Book Award for Poetry In 1974.
Lorde ilso was poetry editor of the Amazon Quarterly.
Lorde said poets use their own experiences to tell
greater truths that make emotional bridges between
peoples' experiences. She said her own experiences are
those of a black woman and she does not consider being
black and a woman a limitation. ,
"It does not remove rr.tf from the human race," she
said. "It adds to it. It's not a restrictive categorization; it's
an expansive categorization."
A writer for 30 years, Lorde said she tries to illuminate
the world from her position and share with people who
have totally different experiences. She said her poetry has
grown and changed somewhat, but it still reaches the
emotions first.
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think they should not feel, she said. ,
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own feelings. We're supposed to fed what we've been
told, and that's the sign of our inferiority."
"That's why we're the "weaker sex.' Men think and
women feci. They (men) respect feelings, but they don't
want to do it. it's a double bind," Lorde tsii.
Lorde also said she believes people should use every
weapon possible to preserve the earth, which the said is
dying.
Poetry is such a weapon, she tdd, End part of her
function is to urge others to become aware that they can
help the earth survive.
She said people have function and power, and they
must choose now to use it. People must define their wants
and needs, Lorde said, and try to fulfill them in a way not
oppressive to others.
"You have a responsibility to speak up,' she said. As
an example, Lorde compared the acceptance by students
of a professor's unsatisfactory teaching methods with the
unquestioning obedience of the Nazis.
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