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Chinese Student Association to hold festival ■ The event will shed light on Chinese culture and the significance of the Chinese New Year By Edward Yuen Oregon Daily Emerald University students will have an opportunity to learn more about Chinese culture at the Chi nese New Year Festival on Sunday night. Unlike other cultures, tradition al Chinese society used to follow the lunar calendar for festivals and planting crops. Because of a differ ent calendar system, Chinese New Year usually falls near the end of January to mid-February. The Chinese Student Associa tion, which organized the event, changed the name from China Night to Chinese New Year Festi val to reflect the arrival of a new century and to emphasize the tra dition of the Chinese New Year at the event. “It is a new century, a new be ginning,” said Eric Yin, CSA pro gram director. He said the name change is just a representation of a beginning of the new era, as sug gested by the name of the holiday. “We want other people to have a chance to explore die happiness of Chinese New Year and the beauty of Chinese culture,” said Annie Lo, CSA public relations officer. Chinese New Year “is the biggest festival of the year,” Lo said. “Everyone will put down their work, and family members will reunite during the New Year if they are scattered around during the year.” Yin also said the CSA will pres ent Chinese culture from the past and present during the event. He said the stage background will be decorated as a traditional Chinese restaurant. In addition to celebrating the New Year, members from the CSA will perform a play based on “The Cultural event What: Chinese New Year Festival Who: Chinese Student Association When: Dinner at 5:30 p.m. and performance at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, Where: Dinner at Skylight area and performance at EMU Ballroom Contact the CSA at 346-4322 for more information. 1 Source: Chinese Student Association Butterfly Lovers,” a legendary love story about two Chinese scholars. Members will also perform tra ditional folk songs to present an other side of the Chinese culture. “We are trying to let as many people as possible to have a closer look at the Chinese culture,” said Jennifer Huang, an executive member of the CSA. “It’s a good chance to bring people together. ” Both Huang and Lin expressed the CSA expected to introduce more about Chinese culture to both the University and Eugene communities through the presen tation Sunday night. OSPIRG continued from page 3 posits when moving out. Bae said the group is currently working on identifying exactly where the problems are and whether a renters’ hotline offering legal ad vice to renters will help or whether they will work toward getting a housing code passed by the City council. However, because many stu dents leave Eugene after graduat ing from college, Bae said, getting support for this issue is difficult. Many students are from out of state, and even those from Eu gene have no lasting interest in making a difference for future renters, he said. Shaw, who has worked on housing issues on a national lev el, said he was working on enlist ing OSPIRG in the national housing campaign. The Earth Day 2000 group works on local and global issues ranging from saving wildlife in Oregon to initiatives against glob al warming. Students volunteering for the Clean Water Now campaign will focus on cleaning up the Willamette River. Students will take a stream walk on Feb. 5 to pick up any garbage. Toward the end of the term, the group will embark on a toxic walk to find out exactly where and why rivers are polluted, what is in the water and how to clean it up'. The group working on stop ping the ATM surcharge hopes to eliminate the methods bank use to make more money at the cost of consumers. All interest groups exchanged ideas on how to achieve their re spective goals and set up meeting times. Pursell said she was excited to see many new faces at the kickoff event. “The energy in this room was really great,” she said. All Ways Travel • Buy early and SAVE • London - $399.00* Paris - $435.00* Frankfurt -$410.00* Santiago, Chile-$720.00* •tax not included, restrictions may apply. Subject to change without notice. ISIC cards & Hostel Passes E-mail: awt@luv2travel.com WED • SAT: 9PM TO CLOSE < HOUSECHSCO-TOP40 falrillli Sparks 15 TVS 3 BIG SCREENS 165 W. 11TH 683-8101 emu craft center invites you to the 20t& awtual an art exhibit by craft center instructors & staff for more information: 346-4361 f-# Friday Jan 28th 5:00-7:00 pm EMU FIR ROOM UNIVERSITY OF OREGON V*,’ Si * J ifym a> V UP students [ j drinks BBr when they party 2666 Data taken from 1998 DO Health Center survey. Office of Student Life University of Oregon
