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j Foreign students to celebrate
■ International students
discover alternative ways
to spend Thanksgiving
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
While thousands of students
will hit the road to head home for
the holidays this week, Fumiko
Saito will spend much of the long
weekend sitting, at her desk,
catching up on her homework
and writing a dreaded paper.
Saito, a senior majoring in Eng
lish, is from Japan and looks at
Thanksgiving as a good opportu
nity to prepare for finals, rather
than remembering the pilgrims
and Native Americans celebrating
a bountiful harvest after a devas
tating winter.
“It’s a good time to take a
break,” Saito said.
Saito said she might eat a tradi
tional turkey dinner at a friend’s
house Thursday night. And al
though her conscience is still
plagued from spending too much
money last year on the day after
Thanksgiving, Saito said she
looks forward to going shopping
and taking advantage of some
great sales Friday.
Ying-Che Chen is a senior jour
nalism major from Taiwan. Un
like many international students,
Chen will have a traditional
Thanksgiving dinner to go to.
Chen visited the United States
for three weeks as a high school
exchange student in 1995 and
will visit his former host family
over the holiday. Chen said dur
ing his first year at the University,
he was not aware that the holiday
drew so many students home and
left campus lifeless.
“I was surprised nobody was
on campus,” Chen said.
This year, Chen said he said he
looks forward to spending
Thanksgiving with people who
have made Thanksgiving and
Christmas holidays special for
him throughout the years, treating
him like one of their own sons.
University food services is of
fering a special dinner tonight so
students who do not have
Thanksgiving plans can enjoy a
holiday dinner. Kari Van Orsdel,
University Inn dining center
manager, said although there will
not be any turkey, students will
be offered prime rib, stuffed
Catharine Kendall Emerald
International and American students share dinner together by participating in a Thanks
giving potluck Sunday evening in Riley Hall.
chicken breast and wild rice,
which they can enjoy by candle
light and piano music.
Van Orsdel said the residence
and dining halls are usually de
serted by Wednesday night, and
only a few students stay over the
holiday. While the dining halls on
campus will close after Wednes
day’s dinner, the residence halls
remain open.
Staying in Eugene over the holi
days does not worry Retno Savit
ri, a junior majoring in journal
ism. Savitri is from Indonesia and
does not give too much thought to
plans for Thanksgiving.
“I have no plan for Thanksgiv
ing, and I’m used to having no
plan,” she said.
Although after three years at
the University she has become in
creasingly accustomed to the tra
dition, Savitri said she does not
celebrate Thanksgiving like
Americans do.
Both American and interna
tional students participated in a
Thanksgiving potluck Sunday
night in the Riley Residence Hall
lounge. Lana Mack, a senior ele
mentary education major and co
ordinator for the dinner, said stu
dents were encouraged to
contribute ethnic foods to the
potluck.
After the dinner, students
picked cards from a giving tree
and participated in a wrapping
party where they wrapped pre
sents students had already
bought. The presents will be do
nated to children through Centro
Latino Americano, a local com
munity agency, said Carl Yeh, a
second-year law student and co
ordinator for the giving tree.
Playground design a treat for day care
■ A University landscape
architecture class designs a
new space for Spencer View
By Benjamin Scott
lor the Emerald
Soon, the hollow plastic roar of
a Big Wheel will resound over the
bubbling creek, the smells of fresh
mint grass will be ground into the
knees of tiny dungarees, and the
tinkling clamor of a musical fence
will blend with the squeals and
giggles of mud-pie cooking.
The “Big Backyard,” now being
built beside the Spencer View Co
op Family Center, will provide a
host of such explorations in a
playground that lets kids control
their play.
The goal of the 12 students in the
University landscape architecture
class that designed and built the
Big Backyard was to “create a back
yard kind of environment, rather
than an institutionalized play
ground,” said Stan Jones, assistant
professor of landscape architec
ture, who is instructing the class.
The Backyard will take the run
off of rain from the day-care cen
ter’s roof and channel it into a
creek that runs under three
bridges, which are part of the brick
and concrete path that winds
around the yard. Beneath a
canopy of red elms and a silk tree
will be a zip-line, a digging quarry,
a hut woven of live willow trees
and an herb garden for the chil
dren to explore.
‘‘We tried to make an opportunity
for kids to experience many different
types of textures,” graduate student
Stewart Crosby said. But the project
was not without its difficulties.
“I think the biggest challenge was
to design with the idea that there are
only eight weeks to build it,” he said.
In two weeks, the students final
ized the design after researching
resilient, non-toxic plants, how
kids play and the concept of “Reg
gio Emilia,” which is the “innova
tive curriculum the co-op is us
ing,” Jones said. The idea that
children’s interests should help di
rect lesson plans and activities is
being used for the first time in
landscape architecture, Jones said.
When designing the backyard, the
students said they got inspiration
from working with the children.
“Playing with the kids was a big
help,” student Kim Mertz said.
Jones said the students have fo
cused on getting kids involved. He
said the children have drawn pic
tures and built models of things they
would like to play on and con
tributed to the construction process.
“The older students repainted a
playhouse that was part of their old
area, to be given to the younger kids
as a ‘fort in the woods’ for their new
area,” Jones said.
The backyard has been wel
comed by the daycare.
“I am very impressed by the de
sign team and by their funding ef
forts,” said Frank Gaddini, area di
rector of Family Housing.
Gaddini, who coordinates the fa
cilities at Spencer View, advised
the class on safety issues..
Jones said a $10,000 grant from
the Meyer Trust and about $6,000
in donated materials from local
businesses, such as Rexius Forest
By-Products, Northwest Play
ground Equipment and Eugene
Sand and Gravel, have made the
design a reality. Jones said students
also recycled construction materi
als, using tire concrete from the old
playground as filler and covering it
with 160 yards of soil from the con
struction at Allen Hall.