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V a walking tour of the visual arts venues in the university neighborhood
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
5:15-7:35 p.m.
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„ - * 1 Maude Kerns Art Center*
( * 5:15 “Dia de los Muertos:
— • * * 5:35 Day of the Dead"
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L UO Museum Natural History
5:45 “Paintings and Parfleches:
6:05 Native American Abstract Art"
*■ «. 1680 East 15th Avenue 5
. 7:15
4 „ „ ' * » 7:35
6:45-7:05 --
Laverne Krause Gallery ~ * * 3
Graphic Design & Sculpture: 6:15
Student Work 6:35
101 Lawrence Hall,
University St. & Franklin Blvd.
Do it all or pick a part.
For more information call Gwynn Hamilton at the Museum of Natural History. 346-3116
or Sandra Dominguez at the Maude Kerns An Center. 345-1571 * Parking Available
Adell McMillan Gallery
“Roctography” by C. Rock
2nd Floor, Erb Memorial Union
UO Museum of Art
“C.S. Price: Landscape, Image,
and Spirit” and "Changing
Perspectives on Modernism"
Adjacent to Knight Library
I A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH CULTURE
JEWISH CULTURE MONTH
Thursday, November 12,8-10:0Opm
Absolute Comedy-Absolute
Madness. Absolute Improv!
Ben Linder Room, EMU.
Tuesday, November 17,
4:00-5:30pm
JSU’s monthly coffee talk
hosted by Professor Richard
Stein. 4:00-5:30,
The Multicultural Center, EMU.
Wednesday November 18,
6:30-10:00pm
Jewish Culture Night. Eat
Alexander's Great Falafel!
Featuring the local band:
Klezmonauts.
The Fir Room, EMU.
Thursday, November 19,7:30pm
Rosh Chodesh-Head of the Month.
This is a special event for women only.
Hillel, 1059 Hillyard.
004975
All events FREE and open to the public
Sponsored By If you have any questions
The Jewish Student Union p*6336 contact a^13 °r David
WITH SPECIAL THANKS to hillel at the JSU office 346-4366.
Mac Court
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riot, which resulted in the arrests
of 12 people, including five Uni
versity students.
Williams said there is no sin
gle solution to the riot problem.
"I don’t think the University
has the capacity to solve the
problem entirely,” he said.
Laura Jones, associate dean of
Student Life, said planning be
gan last spring for the 1998 Hal
loween activities.
Even though other campus of
fices were involved, the Cultural
Forum had to secure a venue be
fore they began negotiating with
Everclear, Martin said.
She first contacted the Athlet
ic Department in April of 1998
and asked for the Oct. 31 date.
But the Cultural Forum was
unable to secure Mac Court for
the concert for a variety of rea
sons.
One of the challenges for the
University is that Mac Court is an
aging structure, said Bob Beals,
athletics director of facilities,
events and operations.
The court has to be used for
three athletic programs and, as
the largest assembly area on
campus, is vital, he said. The
most difficult time to use Mac
Court in both ways is October
through February, he said.
October is especially busy be
cause men’s basketball,
women’s basketball and
women’s volleyball teams are all
training, and there is nowhere
else for the teams to practice, he
said.
From October to February, sev
eral athletic events are scheduled
in Mac Court, and a concert situ
(( Until athletics has a
substitute practice
facility, Mac Court will
be difficult to give up.
Not just any basketball
court will work. ”
Debby Martin
Cultural Forum program adviser
ation would disrupt the sched
ule, Beals said.
Both Martin and Beals agree
the arena was not designed for a
concert.
“McArthur Court was never
designed with green rooms for a
show," Beals said. That means
the band has to use the locker
rooms, and that disrupts even
more athletic events, he said.
“A show like Everclear takes
two or three days to set up," Mar
tin said. “Mac Court is not set up
for a show like that.”
The date was going to be a
problem, and the athletic de
partment was aware of the chal
lenge, Beals said. But the con
cert would have been at the
sacrifice of one of the athletic
programs, he said.
The athletic department needs
to focus on the basketball and
volleyball programs during that
time of year, Beals said.
“Our mission is to accommo
date those three programs,” he
said.
Beals said changing or cancel
ing practices not only affects the
players but can be detrimental to
coaches.
“The livelihood of the coaches
is with winning or losing,” he
said. “It's just not an easy fix.
Mac Court as a concert venue
will continue to be a hit-and
miss situation.”
Beals said he was aware of the
Cultural Forum’s intent to create
a riot-preventing activity but
said he didn’t know whether a
concert would have been the an
swer. He suggested that a concert
may have only changed the riot’s
location.
“People are going to do stupid
things,” he said.
Even though the concert didn’t
happen, Jones said she is still op
timistic about the future.
“I think we're moving in a pos
itive direction,” she said.
Beals said he was trying to
open up discussion to find new
practice space for the athletic de
partment. He said the two gyms
in the basement of Esslinger are
a possibility, but renovation
would have to occur.
“Until athletics has a substi
tute practice facility, Mac Court
will be difficult to give up,” he
said.
Martin said the athletic de
partment has priority over
McArthur Court because of
NCAA regulations that require
Pacific-10 Conference teams to
have an appropriate place to
practice.
“Not just any basketball court
will work,” she said.
Felicity Ayles covers city develop
ment, the West University neighbor
hood and this fall's ballot measures
for the Emerald. She can he
reached i ia e-mail at fizzer@glad
stone. uoregon.edu.
Pledges
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rush for Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Lawrence pledged after fall rush.
Lawrence received a bid after
the summer and accepted it then.
"I knew someone who was al
ready in the house,” he said.
Alcohol-free chapters weren’t
necessarily a large factor in his
decision to join, he said.
“If a fraternity is going to go
dry, they’re still going to drink
somewhere,” Lawrence said.
Sigma Phi Epsilon saw new
membership more than double
this year with an increase in
new recruits from 13 last year to
27.
The main reason for Sigma Phi
Epsilon’s success was summer
mailings that informed students
about the house’s emphasis on
having well-rounded members,
chapter president Auggie Ford
said.
“We really just got our name
out,” Ford said.
Sigma Phi Epsilon used a Bal
anced Man Scholarship Re
cruiting Program to bring in
new recruits. The program
awards 10 $100 scholarships
and one $1,000 scholarship to
students.
“We want to reward these men
who think they’re qualified,”
Ford said.
The service-oriented Theta
Chi fraternity has consistently ac
counted for a large part of new
recruitment totals. Theta Chi
added 25 new members to their
chapter this fall.
Adam Watanabe, Theta Chi
fraternity recruitment director,
said the chapter’s disciplined ap
proach is the key to their suc
cessful recruitment effort.
“We do things by the book
and followed all of IFC’s recruit
ment rules and still came out
with more recruits,” Watanabe
said.
Following the guidelines is
Greek membership
m Nine of 15 fraternities increased
their pledge size from last year. The
number grew from last year's 202
new members to 245.
■ Sorority membership is up 14
percent from last year. All 10 soror
ities met or improved on last year’s
numbers. The number grew from
222 new members last fall to 259
this year.
» Total membership in greek chap
ters has been in steady decline
since 1992, with the exception of
1996.
viewed differently among frater
nities, Watanabe said.
“A lot of the other houses are
doing their best to show them a
good time,” he said. “We’re try
ing to show them brother
hood."
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