UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
Volume 94, No. 16 Portland, Oregon January 30, 1992
Amyman battles evil forces
IS
KOLBE
The “Adventures of
Amyman and the Amazing
Men” is a one-act play written
and directed by Joseph
Limbaugh. “Amyman...” is a
comical farce on the life and
times of Amyman (Hazen
Jctte) and his Amazing Men,
Superball (Jim Engberg),The
Boom (Jeanne Hodin), with
their sidekick, Gilbert (Josh
Wcsthaver) . Amyman and the
Amazing Men battle the evil
forces of the IT from
Otherwhere, (Anna Grace)
with her henchmen ( Jeff Atuk
and Joseph Limbaugh). The
play opens tomorrow, Jan . 3 1 ,
in die Mago Hunt Center at 8
p.m. It will run again on Sat¬
urday, Feb. 1, at 8 p.m. Ad¬
mission is free (for humans).
Superball (Jim Engberg) extols the virtues of being a superhero to the time-
confused Zoom (Jeanne Hodin)(Photo by Melissa Kolbe).
Mehling Hall, President Tyson victimized
UP targeted for crime
Bv SCOTT C. THOMPSON
Russian immigrant discusses homeland
By SARAH GEERS
SpeciMt Contributor'
Russian immigrant Matvei
Finkcl used humorous stories to
describe life in his homeland on
Tuesday evening in BC Audito¬
rium. Finkel, currently a profes¬
sor at Whitworth College in Spo¬
kane, portrayed vivid pictures of
gender roles and shared his dream
to help his homeland.
The ideals of a communist
country, he said, arc founded on
equality. Ironically, Russian men
arc “boss.” Men arc served their
breakfast, work and drink vodka
to forget their life. “Most of the
men know they arc losers,” he
said.
Russian women do not smile.
Finkel described life for women
in dismal scenarios. Early morn¬
ing breakfast, work, long lines to
buy food and unhappy marriages.
The average woman in Russia has
had at least eight abortions.
“There’s nothing they can lose in
life except their place in line,”
Finkcl said.
Finkel described what it was
like to grow up in Russia. “I had
free education and medical care.
We had subsidized food and
apartments and a guaranteed
job,” he said . “ My mother cooked
for me. I thought it was para¬
dise.”
An American woman study¬
ing Russian in Moscow changed
Finkel’s idea of paradise. This
woman eventually became his
wife. Finkel thought this Ameri¬
can lied when she told of the five
cars her family owned. “I said,
*you lie’. I did not believe her
because in Russia it is against the
law to own more than one car,”
he said.
The KGB called in Finkel to
“discuss” his American connec¬
tions. He lost his job, his friends,
his Russian life. Finkel tried to
emigrate to the United States to
join his wife, but the Russian
government waited ten years be¬
fore granting his visa.
Life in the United States
proved challenging for Finkcl.
“ThcU.S. isn’t just another coun¬
try, it’s another planet,” he said.
The planned life no longer
existed for Finkel. He had to
think. College savings, medical
insurance and buying a house
overwhelmed him.
Finkcl hopes to help his home¬
land. He explained history has
made many Russians prejudiced.
Years of occupation by the Tu¬
dors created rifts. This poses an
opportunity for American people
to share knowledge. He encour¬
aged good people to go to Russia
and share knowledge.
“Droppingofffood andmedi-
cal supplies is useless,” Finkel said.
“We need business people to go
and advise about building distri¬
bution systems. We need people
to talk to the peasants about bet¬
ter ways to preserve food.”
Audience members ques¬
tioned Finkel about Russians los¬
ing their culture because of Ameri¬
can influence. Finkel agreed some
melting would happen, but in the
need for modernization he sees
no alternative. “The Russian
people are strong. They are survi¬
vors,” he added.
Editor in Chiel
Theft and trespassing are be¬
coming the top extracurricular
activities on the University of
Portland campus, if current se¬
curity reports are any indication .
The Security Report for this
week and last week have been foil
ofreported thefts, especially from
cars and dorm rooms. This week,
trespassing is ranking a close sec¬
ond.
John Garner, director of
Safety andSecurity, reported that
on Thursday, Jan. 23, four juve¬
nile males were spotted inside
Mehling, wandering around on
different floors. When the hall
staff tried to make contact with
them, the four ran out the stair¬
well doors and left campus. He
said that two thefts of dorm
rooms had occurred around the
same time the subjects were in
the dorm.
On Friday night, Gamer said,
four males were in the hall again,
presumably the same four. Secu¬
rity officers caught three of them
and gave all three trespass warn¬
ings, and escorted them off the
campus. Gamer said that, should
they be caught on campus again,
they could be arrested and turned
over to juvenile court. Only after
the security officers had let the
subjects go was the graffiti in
Villa Maria reported. The report
stated that four juveniles were
seen in the area that was vandal¬
ized.
At4 a.m. Saturdays Mehling
resident noticed someone in the
hall, but no report was filed until
Monday.
On Sunday, the same four
juveniles were spotted on cam¬
pus again. Security officers gave
chase, but the subjects ran off the
campus before they could be ap¬
prehended.
Gamer said that the three
males the security officers warned
on Friday night have gang ties to
the Columbia Villa Crips, and
that one was arrested Saturday by
Portland City Police for robbery.
“About all we can do, unless
we catch them in the act of steal¬
ing, is give them a warning and
send them on their way. If they
come back, then we can arrest
them, and they go to Juvenile
Court,” Gamer said.
And to show that students
aren’t the only people on campus
who need to worry about theft, a
thiefcntcred University President
David T yson ’s office T uesday and
made off with 2 3 of the president’s
personal checks, and the check¬
book and credit cards of his sec¬
retary, Rose Marie Corah.
According to Gamer, who
personally handled the report,
Corah had left the office for lunch
around noon on Tuesday. At
12:20, Tyson came out of his
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Lombardo leaves UP after 40 years
By scon C. THOMPSON _
Editor in Chiel
The man jokingly called the
“matinee idol” by his friends
bade a tearful farewell to the
University of Portland late last
week as he departed for his new
home in Notre Dame, Indiana.
The Rev. Gregory J.
Lombardo, a 40 yearveteran of
teaching and pastoral service at
the University, will reside at
Holy Cross House, a medical
facility for the Indiana Province
of Holy Cross.
Theology is Lombardo’s
area of expertise, and he shared
his knowledge of the subject
with students from the time he
arrived at UP in 1951 until his
retirement in the 1970s. He
was also chairman of the theol¬
ogy department., chaplain of
Kenna Hall and moderator for
the sophomore and junior
classes. In addition, Lombardo
twice filled the position of
Salzburg Program director.
James Covert, professor of
history, said, “I had him for
classes in the ’50s. Back then,
he was one of the most popular
professors on campus.
“As a teacher, he was very
intense, very scholarly; a no-
nonsense kind of prof,” he said.
“He was also very handsome.
Brother Godfrey would always
call him the ‘matinee idol’ for his
good looks.”
Covert said that Lombardo
was always interested in, and loved
being around, students. He was
very involved in student organi¬
zations, and would attend cam¬
pus dances as a chaperone, “in
the days when they had chaper¬
ones,” Covert said.
“A lot of people don’t know
The Rev. Gregory J. Lombardo (Photo
courtesy of Public Relations).
that he was invited to speak at
major conferences, hesaid. "On
St. Augustine and his writings,
Father is internationally known
as an authority.”
Lombardo published a book
on St. Augustine for a series
called “WritingsofEarly Church
Fathers.”
Covert said UP was very
lucky to have Lombardo on
campus. He said that in the
past, the catch-phrase at Notre
Dame was ‘Publish or Portland.’
Ifa priest didn’t live up to Notre
Dame standards, he was rel¬
egated to duty at UP.
But Fr. Mehling, who was in
charge of determining which
priests would go where after
training, was impressed with UP
and liked it. So, in an unprec¬
edented move, he sent several
top-quality priests westward in
1951. Lombardo was among
that group, with a fresh Ph.D.
to bring with him to UP.
Outside of the University
community, Lombardo served
the Archdiocese of Portland by
his assistance at St. Monica’s
Parish in Coos Bay, St. John’s
Parish in Milwaukie, and both
Holy Cross and Assumption
Parishes in Portland.