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Friday, Jan. 19,10:05 p.m. — Officers
received numerous complaints about a
white male running nude down 13th
Avenue by the EMU.
Saturday, Jan. 20,4:40 p.m — DPS
received notice from the Eugene Police
Department dispatch of a caller near
I Autzen Stadium who said a group was
chasing him because he hadn’t paid
them drug money.
Sunday, Jan. 21,11:35 p.m.—A
student reported suspicious males,
dressed in dark clothing, yelling near
the Prince Lucien Campbell Hall.
Monday, Jan. 22,12:50 a.m.—An
officer reported students smoking in
the bathroom on the first floor of the
Burgess Hall in Hamilton East.
Car Crimes
Tuesday, Jan. 16,3:48 p.m.—A caller
reported a vehicle and bus accident at
the corner of 13th Avenue and Kincaid
Street.
Thursday, Jan. 18,3:11 a.m. — A
caller reported a man near the Bond
Apartment parking lot damaging
vehicles.
Saturday, Jan. 20,11:32 p.m.—Stu
dent reported a car had been broken
into near the school of music.
Saturday, Jan. 20,11:32 p.m.—Stu
dent reported a car had been broken
into near the school of music.
Sunday, Jan. 21,2:40 p.m.—DPS
received notification from the EPD of
two people “casing vehicles” near the
intersection of Agate Street and 13th
Avenue.
Bike Thefts
Reported at the following locations:
Hamilton Complex [2] and the Univer
sity Inn.
Source: Department of Public Safety
New Year
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wrapped and fried in a thin tor
tilla. Wu also said his house would
be cleaned thoroughly.
“Chinese New Year means
everything is new for us,” Wu said.
“It’s a new start, so everything is
clean.”
Wu has faced other differences
in America besides holidays away
from his family. He said adapting
to eating American burgers and
spaghetti instead of rice and noo
dles has been easy compared to
the challenge of speaking English
daily. Wu began studying English
in Taiwan when he was 13, and he
became proficient in reading and
writing, but not in speaking the
language.
I get homesick and
think about my family a
lot I miss the food. I’m
sure they will have better
food than here.
Xiao-Yu Fan
sophomore,
CSA volunteer
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Wu, a sophomore pre-business
major, said he plans to finish his
college education studying abroad
at the University. He has been
helping his younger sister, Iris, a
freshman, adjust to life in the resi
dence halls and her first Chinese
New Year in America.
For Chinese New Year’s Eve,
Wu and Tsai said they will gather
with a small group of their col
lege friends to celebrate at mid
night and stay awake all night. As
an alternative to setting off fire
crackers, they will share a meal
out of a hot pot, a large boiling
pot of soup into which raw meat
is dipped.
Another tradition Wu said he
can’t participate in during his stay
in America is putting up red paper
around the frame of his family’s
front door. The paper is adorned
with wishes for a prosperous new
year and good fortune.
“A long, long time ago, people
thought the red paper was put
around the door so a monster
wouldn’t get into the house,” said
Wu, who was born in the year of
the rooster.
The monster, called “nein” in
Chinese, was thought to have eat
en people each year on Jan. 24. Wu
said devices such as fireworks are
meant to scare off the monster. But
times have changed, and the tradi
tional ceremonies are now per
formed out of respect toward Chi
nese ancestors, not out of fear of
the monster.
Xiao-Yu Fan, a sophomore from
China and a volunteer with CSA,
said for her, Chinese New Year is a
special occasion for her to get to
gether with her friends from the
University.
“I get homesick and think about
my family a lot,” Fan said. “I miss
the food. I’m sure they will have
better food than here.”
Tsai said the one aspect she will
miss most celebrating Chinese
New Year in America is the red en
velope, which contains money and
is usually given to children from
their elders. The color red stands
for congratulations and celebration
in Chinese.
Chinese New Year
Festival 2001
Starts at 5 p.m., Jan. 28 in the EMU
Skylight and Ballroom
$7general public, free for children
ages three and under
Tickets may be purchased at the
door or the EMU ticket office
For more information, contact the
Chinese Student Association at 346
4322.
Wu said he will also miss gam
bling, another highlight for youths
during the Chinese New Year cele
bration.
The CSA will host the Chinese
New Year Festival 2001 at 5 p.m.
on Jan. 28 in the EMU Skylight
and Ballroom. Tsai said the annu
al cultural presentation will pro
vide students, faculty and the
community the opportunity to
learn more about Chinese culture
and traditions through exhibi
tions, a dinner reception and per
formances.
Features of the evening will in
clude Chinese calligraphy
demonstrations, costumes, mar
tial arts, folk music and travel in
formation.
More than 50 volunteers will
prepare specialty dishes such as
“bien-dang” and “dumping,” of
ten served during the Dragon
Boat festival in May. Even though
the activities fall on the same day
as the Super Bowl, members of
CSA said they expect more than
300 people to attend the events
Sunday.
“We would like to introduce to
everyone how we celebrate Chi
nese New Year,” Tsai said.
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