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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
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liao, University of Oregon, discusses the difference
in California, Oregon, Texas, and Hawaii.
Where: EMU Multicultural Center 5:00-6:30 pm
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Where: EMU Multicultural Center 5:00-6:30 pm
Tuesday, May 16th: Seeking Truth..,Film Presentation
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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.
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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.”
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