The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 10, 1986 -- Page 3 Amos Oz Traditions pressure Israel, author says Pilot program students study in an Alice Lloyd lounge last Monday. Pilot program zeroes in on exchange of ideas, insights By EVE BECKER Amos Oz, a renowned Israeli author and journalist, told a crowd of several hundred last night that expectations that Israel will become a perfect Biblical nation are unrealistic. Oz, author of In the Land of Israel and My Michael, criticized with a biting and ironic sense of humor the conflicting attitudes forcing Israel to "become a surrealistic combination of many values put together in one nutshell." "Some spectators expect Israel to be the most Christian nation in the world in turns of turning the other cheek," he said, but others expect it to assume a fighting image. Oz came to Ann Arbor as part of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation's Hill Street Forum. Israel is a "confusing phenomenon," he said, because it is full of contradictions which people impose on it. It is pressured on all sides from the non-Israeli Jews "to produce a couple of daily miracles or to crash with a big bang." Oz said the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was unjust because there was not an immediate danger from Palestinian Liberation Organization fighters. Oz opposes the annexation of the West Bank and the Gaza strip, and is against a bi-partisan Israeli- Arab state. Oz is a spokesman for "Peace Now," a political group advocating negotiations with the Palestinians. The author criticized extremists on both the right and the left. "Recently in Israel, you get the idea that the extremists on the right and left are coming in on us from both sides," he said. "There is one thing uglier than exercising violence: It is giving in to violence," Oz said. "I tend to believe most conflicts simply do not resolve; rather, they fade out from fatigue and exhaustion." 9th Anniversary Celebration 10/o OFF STOREWIDE UNTIL SUNDAY, NOV.16 - apparel C jewelry - accessories - - - 325 e. liberty - ann arbor, michigan - 995.4222 Oz's speech was preceded by a show from Tamir, an actress who portrayed six characters from Oz's most recent book, In the Land of Israel, which is a compilation of interviews with people who represent contemporary Israel. Tamir performed a monologue acting out the roles of a Zionist farmer, a religious zealot, a nun, an Israeli right-wing extremist, a Palestinian Arab, and a Rumanian immigrant. "An oppressed people will not sing as a bird in a tree, but as a bird in a cage," she said. By FRANCIE ALLEN Alice Lloyd's Pilot Program turns 25 next year, and - after surviving the '70s, an era when "if you're innovative, you're not any good" was the prevailing ideology - the program has raised its academic standards and become more selective in hiring, says Pilot Director David Schoem. There are about 600 freshmen and sophomores in the program, all of whom live in the Alice Lloyd Residence Hall and attend their small, discussion- oriented Pilot classes right in the building. Teaching assistant Raouf Mama notes that like other Pilot teaching assistants, he must serve as a Resident Fellow and as a teacher in the classroom. But in spite of the time demands, he says, "It's a rewarding experience, learning to breach the social and ethnic barriers and to know people's cultures and views. I like to relate to people and to talk to them." ALL TEACHING assistants are required to live in the dormitory with the students to strengthen the feeling of community and enable students to see their teachers informally. That way, students and teachers can meet not only to discuss academics and plan hall activities, but also to get to know one another during meals and one-on-one conferences. The Pilot Program was launched in 1962 as a response to criticism that dorm life and academic life were too distinct. The program emphasizes small classes - most have fewer than 25 students - and liberal arts classes such as "The Art of Knowing," which was designed to "ask students to explore their predisposition to pre-judge others, to 'buy' an intellectual 'bill of goods' and to accept as truth both the explicit and hidden curricula of our schools." "The Art of Knowing," which Schoem taught with several teaching assistants, is the Pilot Program's one- credit "theme experience" class this year. The Pilot program also offers sections of English 125, and Schoem says that teaching assistants in each Pilot section of the course are encouraged to propose themes of interest to students for their sections. In doing so, teaching assistants work within the requirements of the English department and within guidelines which Schoem and Bill Knox, Resident Director for Academics, set out. NANCY GOLDFARB teaches a section of English 125 called "Writing about Change and Transformation." Goldfarb recalls Knox and Schoem's suggestions: "They wanted it to appeal to students and be more relevant to their lives than some intellectual courses," she says. In her class, students share ideas on civil rights, women's issues, and other social concerns, but Goldfarb stresses that the course also emphasizes students' writing ability. "Their success depends upon their ability to write," she says. "It's challenging to mix this (discussion of social change) with the actual discussion of the papers.,, Mama teaches an English 125 section called "Human Relations." He encourages students to suggest novels for class, and he hopes to get students to think about relations of love and hate, power and powerlessness. "Through the novels that we read we get imaginatively involved in what it would feel like to be the characters," he says. ONE OF Mama's students, freshman Tracey Bernstein, says he likes the strong emphasis on discussion in class. "I think when you get everybody's outputs, you get a better idea of what's going on," he says. And if a student is not strong in English, Bernstein says, Mama is easily accessible for help on papers. Debbie Katz, another freshman in Mama's class, says, "It's nice to be able to ask your teacher questions at 12 o'clock at night concerning papers due the next day." 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Dr. Kenneth Cragg - "Is There No Balm in Gilead, or Jerusalem, or Mecca, or Rome?," Center for Near School of Natural Resources, 3:30 p.m., Dana Building, Rm.1040. Meetings Blind Computer User's Group - 7 p.m., Union, Room 3909. Study in England At The University of Reading Meeting - 2 p.m., International Center. Free South Africa Coordinating Committee General Meeting - 6:30 p.m., West Engineering, Rm. 111. Furthermore "Freedom from Smoking" Clinic Orientation - Department of Internal Medicine- Division of Pulmonary Care And the American Lung Association, 7 p.m., University of Michigan Hospital, Rm. 2C108 (995-1030). Safewalk - Nighttime Walking Service, 8 p.m-1:30 a.m., Undergraduate Library, Rm. 102 (936-1000). nearby colleges in the Connecticut River valley. A racial slur was painted on the steps of Smith College a week after the World Series. Rumors floated that a white student in a Ku Klux Klan outfit at a Halloween party won a prize for the costume. Black women complained of stepped-up harassment. "There's a sense of vulnerability and terror, of a state of siege on the part of minorities," said John Grayson, an assistant professor of religion at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. MOUNT HOLYOKE senior Michele Mitchell said a University of Massachusetts student voiced a racial insult at her and shoved her away from a copier at a university library the week after the game. "Racism is something I've felt ever since I came up here, but it's always been latent," said the native of Albuquerque, N.M. "Now white UMass men are warning black Mount Holyoke women to stay away from the campus." Mitchell and white classmate Erin Fields organized a racism teach-in at Mount Holyoke that drew 600 students Friday. A few days earlier, similar discussions at Smith College in Northampton attracted 2,000 students. The Smith talks were prompted by a slur painted on the steps of Lilly Hall on Oct. 30. 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