Students get costumed for ball
The Ballroom Dance
Club sponsored a
Masquerade Ball
on Halloween night
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
Napoleon Bonaparte and his
Josephine arrived at Gerlinger
220 Halloween night, dividing
the crowd with their classic cos
tumes. They came for the Oregon
Ballroom Dance Club’s Masquer
ade Ball.
“Ballroom dancing has made a
big comeback across the nation,”
said Dee Granger, who dressed
as Josephine. She said she
prefers to dance West Coast
swing.
Another couple stood arm-in
arm but out of costume.
"We came from work,” com
munity member Barbara Walker
said.
Barbara and Jim Walker have
been learning to dance through
the Oregon Ballroom Dance
Club. The club teaches a dance
lesson at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays,
focusing on a different dance
each week. From Vienna waltz
to rumba, from foxtrot to the
hustle, students can learn a vari
ety of steps.
Admission is $3 for students
and $4 for general public. The
dancing goes from 8:30 until
11:30 p.m. every Friday.
“This is good because you
dance to the same record 65
times,” Jim Walker said.
On the dance floor, a pair of
tin-foil butterfly wings flash to
an upbeat merengue number.
The wings are mounted on the
Students compete in a swing contest at the Masquerade Ball held in
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Nick Medley/Emerald
Gerlinger Hall Friday.
back of Brian Wise, special
events coordinator for Oregon
Ballroom.
“We tend toward cheesiness,”
Wise said.
Many people who come don’t
know any of the dances, he said.
“We have a strong commit
ment to teaching dance,” Wise
said. “There are all levels and
skills.”
The club provides specially
appointed dance ambassadors
who patrol the lessons, available
to help people with dance steps.
The club offers a weekly
chance to swing into the week
end without drinking, said
Michelle Dreher, club co-presi
dent .
“There was nothing really to
do on campus that was non-alco
holic,” Dreher said of the club’s
beginning.
In its fifth year, attendance has
grown.
“Numbers have been up this
year, dramatically up,” Dreher
said. “There’s still a fairly loyal
following.”
Ballroom dance’s popularity
has had a noticeable effect on the
number of students taking Uni
versity dance classes.
"The classes fill up on a regu
lar basis,” Dreher said. “It used to
be that way for just [beginner-lev
el courses].”
The wider exposure helps the
club diversify its teaching,
Dreher said.
The club advertises, “No Part
ner Necessary. No Experience
Necessary,” but tries not to play
matchmaker, Wise said.
“We’re a friendly bunch,” he
said. “It’s not a meat market.”
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of confidentiality, when to
print names and when not to
and what kinds of crimes to
even list need to be discussed,
he said.
Another problem OPS may
run into is the relationship be
tween other parts of the Uni
versity and their violation
codes, Hicks said. Student
conduct, housing and the ath
letic departments must now
report their crimes to OPS.
When one part of the Uni
versity reports a crime, it will
take some planning to not
overlap reports with OPS, said
Elaine Green, associate dean of
student life and who deals
with the student conduct code.
“We will have to make sure
we don’t double report a
crime,” she said. “We already
have a working relationship,
but now it will have to be more
frequent."
Another part of the provi
sion expands the list of crime
data reported every year to in
clude manslaughter and arson.
The provision will also require
that these statistics expand to
off-campus areas. In the act,
off-campus areas include pub
lic streets adjacent to school fa
cilities — even at distant area
facilities. At the University,
this would include 18th Street
and in the 13th Avenue area,
Hicks said.
OPS already prints a list of
statistics that include the types
of crimes committed and the
programs available for those
hurt in those crimes.
"It’s just a matter of adding a
couple more columns that in
clude on and off-campus ar
eas,” he said.
But there will be and always
have been gray areas, Hicks
said. The details of when to in
clude a statistic and when not
to can be very difficult and
sometimes can construe the re
sults, he said.
For example, when a tran
sient was murdered just west
of the north soccer field in
1997, it was reported in the
OPS statistics. However, if it
had occurred 50 feet away, it
wouldn’t have.
"When someone sees a zero
in a column, it doesn’t neces
sarily mean that kind of crime
didn’t happen,” he said.
"There were just reasons that
we couldn’t report it.
"These statistics aren’t there
for the purpose of seeing how
safe we are, but to provide in
formation for students to make
better decisions on how to be
safer.”
Every year, these statistics
must be reported to the U.S.
Department of Education. If
the statistics are found to be
construed or misrepresented,
the Secretary of Education will
impose a fine on the institu
tion.
Hicks said he doesn’t know
how long it will take OPS and
the University to make these
changes, but he said they will
begin to implement changes
after talking to University legal
advisors for further clarifica
tion of the act.
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