The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 8, 1993 - 7 BRIGHT, BRIGHT SUNSHINY DAY Charity walk to fund world, local hunger relief agencies By SANGITA POPAT FOR THE DAILY Ann Arbor motorists will have to drive carefully Sunday, when the streets are filled with participants in the 19th Annual CROPHunger Walk. The Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice is sponsoring the event, which aims to raise money for local and international causes. Participants raise funds through pledges from friends and family mem- bers. Approximately 18 percent of the money go toward administrative costs and the remaining 82 percent is donated to programs that help people in need. About 25 percent of CROP Walk proceeds goes to local charities. Three groups-SOS Crisis Center, Women in Transition and Food Gatherers - will receive funding. The SOS Crisis Center provides food for families in need while Food Gatherers coordinates distribution of food donated by restaurants. Women in Transition operates a shelter for women and children. Donations to the Hunger Walk are also distributed to partner agencies in more than 70 countries around the world. Church World Services distrib- utes funding to international groups in Cambodia, Sudan and Guatemala. This service provides vital assistance to people in many countries. w A majority of funding goes to Cambodia. Additional funding helps Sudanese mothers and children who are in need of food. And in Guatemala, a partner agency of Church World is assisting returning refugees and low income families by developing programs - such as income generating projects - to help citizens become self-suffi- cient. Registration begins at 1:30 p.m., and the walk begins after at the Saint Francis Catholic Church on East Sta- dium Street. U"AN IAA'ai"y School of Music senior Jennie Ellis and LSA senior Neal Bloch enjoy a sunny lunch in the Diag yesterday afternoon when temperatures reached a glorious 83 degrees. A VLit L-cL 'Morrison takes Nobel Prize in literature PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - Nov- elist Toni Morrison, the first Black American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, said yesterday that her lyri- cal works such as "Beloved" and "Jazz" were inspired by "huge si- lences in literature." "Winning as an American is very special - but winning as a Black American is a knockout," Morrison, 62, said at her office at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1989. . 4 In awarding the 1993 prize yester- day, the Swedish Academy called Morrison "a literary artist of the first rank" whose work is "unusually finely *wroughtandcohesive, yetat the same time rich in variation." Morrison said she was inspired by "huge silences in literature, things thathadneverbeen articulated, printed or imagined and they were the si- lences about Black girls, Black women. "It was into that area that I stepped and found it to be enormous," she said. The author ofsix novels, Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fic- tion for "Beloved." Her first work of fiction, "The Bluest Eye," came out in 1970, followed by "Sula" in 1974, "Song of Solomon" in 1977, "Tar Baby" in 1981, "Beloved" in 1987 and "Jazz" in 1992. "I think she's a wonderful stylist and a terrific thinker," said author Jane Smiley, who won the Pulitzer Prizefor the 1991 novel, "A Thou- sand Acres." Morrison also lectures on Black literature, wrote a play, "Dreaming Emmett," and a bookofcriticism, Morrison "Playing in the Dark - Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." She conceived, edited and contributed to a 1992 collection of essays on Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. Since 1981, she has been a mem- berof the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Shortly after learning from a col- league of her award, Morrison left for her office. A smiling Morrison said that she screamed and laughed with her-son, Ford Morrison, an architect, upon hearing the news. "Whatever you think about prizes and the irrelevance to one's actual work, there is a very distinct tremor when you win a prize like the Nobel Prize," Morrison said. Morrison said she was glad her mother, Ella Wofford, 87, is alive to share her joy. She also said she had telephoned her sister, Lois Brooks, 64, of Lorain, Ohio. "Personally I think this has al- ways been her desire, to write," Mrs. Brooks said. "It's adesire she had and she's been able to fulfill that desire and say things she wanted to say." Morrison said she was flabber- gasted to learn she was the first Ameri- can-born winner since John Steinbeck in 1962. "If I can claim to be representative of a number of regions and groups, it's all to the good," she said. "It i distributes the honor in such a way that you feel more blessed." The soft-spoken Morrison was coy on some questions, such as how she would spend the $825,000 prize. Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in the town of Lorain, Ohio, the second of four children of Ala- bama sharecroppers who had migrated north. She studied humanities at Howard University and earned a master's degree in American litera- ture from Cornell University in 1955. She is divorced and has two sons. PRINTING HIGH QUALITY LM WPAfCES "Wi~th a"' CAS , 011k 1 wI(rt * ( k _..a I t JI'S ?aur PASO' iLs yc~rPF f't?.: fS Y?'OJ"' .Pr DI te October_8 )P Mi Michigan book & supply 4. 11 am -4pm Book & Supply 317 South State (at North University) Ann Arbor, M 665-4990 v. t=IN I'' Call the Daily's reader response line at 764=0553. M3Ann Arbor Civic Theatre -AMainStage Productions sponso=in pabryTHENEWS ANN RBO1E .. teiu's R Music by RICHARD RODGERS Book & Lyricsby OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Based on the play "Green Grow the Lilacs" MgiM Original Dances by Agnes de Mille Directed by Conrad Mason - Music Direction by Ben Cohen Choreography by Gregory George Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre - October 6-9, 1993 Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m.; Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Call 971-AACT for ticket reservations - beginning October 4, call 763-1085 till3 1 Ad F y aprxtr xs ,. ~a,:ar::.4>k ;~w. t d M ___ I MO r r~~fIr rl~ I I I .. .5wr ... iu w mi. .un~~r~t A V I. >: r _, :a- : .