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tars and Eugene’s COME INTO OUR HOUSE AND LEARN ABOUT AME Wednesday, April 26th; Opening Ceremonies What: Kicks off Asian Heritage Month Celebration featuring student Lion Dance Team. Where: EMU Amphitheater 4:00-5:30 pm Saturday, April 29th; Fashion Show/Auction & Dance What: Asian American fashions followed by auction and dance with live D.J. Where: EMU Fir Room, Fashion Show 8:30-9:30pm fee admission Dance 10:00-1:00 am, admission with 3 canned food donations ional Difference in Asian liao, University of Oregon, discusses the difference in California, Oregon, Texas, and Hawaii. Where: EMU Multicultural Center 5:00-6:30 pm m HM MHS Wednesday, May 10th: Island Paradise...History of What What: Professor Toeutu Fa’aleava, U.C. Berkeley introduces the history of U,S. whaling in the Pacific from the 1790s to 1870s. Pacific lslanders|fi^i^«|tures were integrated into the global market and labor economies an whai Where: EMU Multicultural Center 5:00-6:30 pm Tuesday, May 16th: Seeking Truth..,Film Presentation . What: A showing of “True,” by director Jay Koh, illustrates the experien* Korean Americans of dramatically different backgrounds. In foil* the truth about what it means to be Korean Americans, they dis^ individuals. Q&A session to follow. Where: EMU Gumwood Rooms 7:00-9:00 pm .ung arch for es as ■aWH-MHHM........ What: Directed by Jay Koh. FffmFfll min.) examining the experiences onKorei day of school. Followed by discussions with Mr. Koh. If J s first The Main -Student votes continued from page 1 voting process, and we do vote.” During the 15-minute stretch Monday, the officials and stu dents set out to harness in stu dent voters for the May 16 pri mary. The deadline to register for next month’s election is today. Prozanski donned one of the yellow T-shirts worn by the stu dent volunteers that read “Ex press yourself: Vote,” while De Fazio patiently pointed students through the registration form. Walker, especially, approached the task with enthusiasm. Intro ducing herself as the students’ state representative, she was ani mated as she got in the students’ faces and followed them down the street while persuading them to register to vote. The visit by DeFazio and the other public officials is just one part of an overall attempt by the ASUO to increase student partic ipation in statewide and national elections. Since the beginning of spring term, and especially for the past two weeks, student gov ernment leaders have been spear heading efforts to increase the number of registered students who will then vote. The voter registration drive truly kicked into gear the last two weeks, with volunteers standing on the streets Wednesday through Friday, signing up stu dents to vote. They’ve also been visiting Greek houses around campus with the same goal in mind. “Voting registration among the student population is an extreme ly pressing issue,” ASUO Federal Affairs Coordinator Robin Miller said. “Clearly students have the power to be a strong voting bloc on state, local and national is sues.” The numbers matter. In the 1996 Senate special elections, the decision was locked by just about 20,000 votes. With 120,000 stu dents enrolled in Oregon colleges and universities, ASUO State Af fairs Coordinator Arlie Adkins said that if students could just come out in large numbers, they could make a real difference. “But that’s not going to happen until students start to use the clout that people around the world are dying to get,” DeFazio said. “That is, the vote.” Corcoran explained how stu dent votes will affect the upcom ing elections in the fall. There are a few initiatives coming up on the fall ballot that would dras tically affect students at the high er education level. The initiatives would cut education spending overall, but because there is a lot of opposition to hurting students in K-12, most of the cuts would affect post-secondary education. “In politics in general, we’ve just seen a gradual decline in vot er participation,” Corcoran said. “That’s actually a strategy of the extreme right all over the U.S. to drive down voter participation because that simply gives more power to those who are left to vote.” The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Mon day through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald operates inde pendently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private property. 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