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This is ponderous . ... , , _ , „ MATHEWSTIFFLER/Emerald Members of the Mulva s Delores team ponder a question at the College Bowl Wednesday night. The event is a national competition where the teams compete by answering questions. The winners of the competition will go on to the northwest regional competition. Ganas program shares campus life with students ■ LEADERS: By reaching out to Chicano students, the program hopes to inspire hicultural leaders By Dana Williams Multicultural Issues Reporter Local middle school students will visit the campus tomorrow to see “a day in the life" of Chicano University students. University students are welcoming a group called Ganas — the Spanish word for “desire.” The Ganas program connects Chicano/Latino middle school students with University students. Sixth, seventh and eighth graders are paired with Universi ty students and will visit college classrooms and workplaces. The students will also tour the EMU and the University’s libraries, bookstore and residence halls. In addition, students will learn about college admission and financial aid, as well as participate in a computer presentation at the Knight Library Technology Center. A reception introducing Ganas will be held in the Knight Library tonight at 6:30 p.m. and will include speakers Dr. Ansel mo Villanueva, adjunct professor in the Col lege of Education; Glen Banfield, ASUO vice president; Marshall Sauceda, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs; Jim Buch, Student Affairs associate vice presi dent; and Kay Mehas, Kennedy Middle School principal. Events will continue on Friday. Ganas began with Jim Garcia, University assistant director of the Office of Multicul tural Affairs, who wanted to inspire Chi cano/ Latino students to become bicultural leaders. Garcia’s concern for young students stems from 17 years of working with Chi cano/Latino students. “I see too many leaders that happen to look Latino, and it’s assumed that they know about their history,” Garcia said. University students travel to Kennedy Middle School every other week to talk to students about college and to dispel stereo types portrayed in the media, said Claudia Rodriguez, a University senior coordinating the program. Ganas leaders want to educate students about their own culture(s) and em power young people to be leaders in main stream society. “A lot of kids talked about ‘COPS’ and how it’s always a brown person who is in gangs and in trouble,” Rodriguez said. “It’s important for the kids to see college stu dents who they can relate to; they need to see alternative role models. ” Seventh grader Jocelyn Durate said she enjoys Ganas because she can feel proud to be a Spanish speaker. “In Ganas they accept you the way that you are,” she said. Thirty University students, who volun teer as big brothers and sisters, take middle school students to cultural events through out the term. Thirteen-year-old Crystal Brown, a par ticipant in the program, now wants to go to college and study to be a journalist or a vet erinarian. “1 wasn’t thinking about college before, but ever since I moved to Eugene I’ve learned more about college, and I see more minorities in college,” Brown said. “It in spires me.” Roscoe Caron, an eighth grade teacher at Kennedy Middle School, works with Gar cia to make the program a success. Caron ex plained that the students are behind the pro gram because “it’s decidedly cool.” Kennedy Middle School has the largest number of Chicano/ Latino students in Eu gene. Although only about half of Kennedy’s Chicano/Latino students are in volved in Ganas, Caron is optimistic. “We want to start with the kids who really want to be here,” Caron said. Law: Hawaii case central to marriage debate ■ Continued from Page 1 rights for lesbians and gay men. “Without civil marriage, gay couples of ten face painful, difficult situations, like being barred from the hospital bedside of a partner in a medical emergency,” said Lambda Legal Director Beatrice Dohrn. “Lesbian and gay couples have had no ac cess to the legal, economic and practical protections of civil marriage that non-gay couples can take for granted.” According to a Lambda news release, gays do not want “gay marriage,” but pre fer the term “marriage.” “Gay marriage” implies that same-sex couples are asking for special rights or privileges that married couples do not have. Lesbians and gay men simply want equal rights — the same as heterosexual marriage. “The Hawaii case is so important for gays, lesbians and bisexuals in general that it should be a very interesting speech,” University student Karen Vittek said. Founded in 1973, the Lambda Legal De fense and Education Fund is the nation’s oldest and largest legal organization that works nationally to extend the civil rights of lesbians, gay men and people with HIV and AIDS. Lambda is spearheading a na tional movement to end sex discrimina tion in civil marriage and to protect les bian and gay families. Wolfson has worked as a lawyer for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund since 1989. He has published nu merous articles and frequently speaks on issues such as on sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS and civil rights. Wolfson served as Assistant District Attorney for Kings County (Brooklyn) where he wrote amicus briefs, which helped win the Unit ed States Supreme Court’s ban on race discrimination in jury selection (Batson v. Kentucky). He also served as counsel on Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 Supreme Court case which upheld Georgia’s sodomy law as constitutional. Wolfson, who taught at Rutgers Law School, is cur rently an adjunct professor of law at Co lumbia. The forum is free and open to the public tonight in the EMU Ballroom at 7:00 p.m. Wolfson will lecture briefly and then en gage in a question-and-answer session. The event is co-sponsored by the ASUO Les bian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Alliance; The Unitarian Universalist Church of Eu gene; The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational and Support Ser vices Program; The Standing Committee for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns and the ASUO Women’s Center. The Cul tural Forum is presenting the event. Mon-Thurs 10-7 • Fri & Sal 10-9 Open Sunday 12-5 13th& Lawrence* 683-1300 HHHfls restaurant Korean & Japanese Cuisine Low Fat Low Calories Brown Rice Available. 1219 Alder St. Across the Street from Sacred Heart Hospital More than 15 New Dishes! TRY ONE TODAY! 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