VSA will hold cultural night
■ Students say the event
will teach about
Vietnamese culture
By Edward Yuen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Students from the Vietnamese
Student Association will present
“Tradition and Culture in the New
Millennium,” a cultural night this
Saturday in the EMU Ballroom.
Audiences will be able to un
derstand and learn more about
this Asian culture through a
presentation of cuisine and a se
ries of performances.
“The main purpose [of the
Vietnamese culture night] is to
promote and make people aware
of the Vietnamese culture,” VSA
co-director Jason Chinn said.
In addition, some VSA students
consider the cultural night as a way
to celebrate the newr millennium.
“We hope to continue the tra
dition of holding an exciting and
entertaining cultural show into
the new millennium,” said Dean
Van, another VSA co-director.
In order to present both the tra
ditional and modern Vietnamese
culture, Chinn said one of the
performances is a skit that is
adapted from a Vietnamese ioik
story called “Little Finger of the
Water Melon Patch.” Students
will also perform in a fashion
show and dress in the traditional
Vietnamese wedding clothing.
Participants will be served
Vietnamese cuisine during the
event and will have a chance to
watch students perform dances
and skits that represent Viet
namese culture.
People who don’t know much
about the Vietnamese culture,
the traditions and the way of life
that has been passed on,” said
Phuc Nguyen, a freshman unde
clared major. “We live in [the
American] culture, but we also
know about our own. We also
have the tradition of our own.”
However, most students from
the VSA have difficulties under
standing the traditional Viet
namese culture when they pre
pare the performances because
they were born in the United
States, Chinn said.
But some of the people who
were born overseas and have
come here still practice the tradi
tions, and they still have the
knowledge,” Chinn said. “A lot
of these people are key in help
Culture Event
What: Tradition and Culture in the
New Millennium, Vietnamese cul
ture night
When: 6 p.m., Saturday
Where: EMU Ballroom
Contact Vietnamese Student Asso
ciation at 346-0664 or e-mail
vsa@gladstone.uoregon.edu for
more information.
SOURCE: Vietnamese Student Association
ing out organize” the perform
ances.
In addition, students from the
VSA also rely on their parents,
most of whom were born and
raised in Vietnam, to fill in the
gap about Vietnamese culture
and tradition, said Mon Ha, a sen
ior business major. She said al
though some Vietnamese culture
is similar to that of Chinese, there
are variations between them.
“I don’t think a lot of people
on campus really know about
the Vietnamese culture because
there are so many Asian coun
tries, their traditions, in a way,
overlapped. ... They are really
close but they still have differ
ences,” Chinn said.
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son said, “This decision is an em
barrassment on the part of the
elections board. ... We are in this
race more than ever. We are here
to fight for students, not make a
mockery of the elections process.
This is far from over.”
Although Gabbe admitted he
and Larson did pay the money for
refreshments and had campaign
posters and buttons at the coffee
hour, he said he believed strongly
that he and Larson hadn’t actually
broken the rule. He said they only
spoke about their campaign then
urged people to look at everyone’s
platform and vote.
“We never said, ‘Vote for us.’
We just said who we are and told
people to get out to vote,” Gabbe
said. “We saw it as a really good
forum to do that.”
Elections coordinator Ken Best
said the elections board clearly
agreed with Greenough.
“It is undisputed that they paid
for the food and ... there was C.J.
and Peter posters and*propaganda
for people to take,” Best said. “It
was promoting their campaign.”
The board discussed a variety
of punishments, including a fine
or limiting how much campaign
ing they could do. Best said re
moving them from the ballot was
the only action that matched the
severity of Gabbe and Larson’s ac
tions.
Those reprimands don’t “really
do anything to deter people from
breaking the rules,” Best said.
“Others could be free to do it too
knowing they’d just have to pay a
fine. It was obviously worth it to
[Gabbe and Larson] to pay money
for their campaign at the coffee
hour.”
He added that board members
worried Gabbe and Larson might
try to find ways around cam
paigning restrictions.
The board did have the option
to keep them from running a
write-in campaign as well but
didn’t want to inadvertently take
voting power away from the stu
dents in the process.
“We can’t totally ignore the stu
dent voice,” elections board mem
ber Bennett Lacy said. “If all these
students say, ‘We want them,’ we
shouldn’t say no.”
Gabbe and Larson will appeal
the decision to the ASUO Consti
tution Court. If. necessary, they
also have the right to appeal di
rectly to University President
Dave Frohnmayer.
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