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VSA to present culture night
■The Vietnamese Student
Association event includes a
dinner of traditional foods
and a musical performance
By Kendall Larsen
for the Emerald
Students and community members
will have the opportunity Sunday to
taste authentic Vietnamese food, be
entertained by skits and experience a
fresh portrayal of Vietnamese culture.
Coordinated by junior Thuvan
Hoang and senior Tran Quach, Viet
namese culture night is an annual
event that draws people from around
the state. Dinner starts at 5 p.m., and
at 6:30 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom the
Vietnamese Student Association will
present “Memories of the Past,
Dreams for the Future. ”
Building on their past success, the
students of the VSA will also try
something a bit different this year.
Rob Yee, a sophomore multimedia
arts major and the VSA’s program co
ordinator, said this year’s program is
anything but typical. Instead of the
fashion show and dances that are
usually the main focus, a musical
performance will address the idea of
blending Vietnamese traditions with
American culture.
In the main skit, a young girl
opens up a “time capsule” of her
life, and each item reminds her of a
certain event, Yee said. A fan, for ex
ample, will remind her of a fan
dance, which will then be per
formed for the audience.
“The whole show is based
around a grandma and a little girl,”
Hoang said. “The grandma is remi
niscing about her past in Vietnam.
The newer parts revolve around her
time in theU.S.”
Quach added that in this way, the
show attempts to “mesh an old cul
ture with a new American culture
... [and show] how it is to be grow
ing up in a bi-racial culture like
many of us are.”
Another skit tells the story of how
New Year’s came about in Vietnam.
Traditional cultural and courtship
dances will also be performed, Yee
said.
Authentic Vietnamese food will
also be offered, and Quach said that
not only will VSA members be cook
ing, but so will their parents, ensuring
that the samplings will be traditional.
The “usual dishes” such as egg
rolls will be served, Quach said, but
so will many new noodle dishes.
Yee said volunteers will also make a
tasty Vietnamese barbecued pork.
Quach said although the active
VSA members total about 25 peo
ple, more than 50 helped with the
production.
“A lot of people came out of the
woodwork,” she said.
Those who are involved in the stu
dent group are not all Vietnamese.
Quach said the association has peo
ple of all backgrounds and races, in
cluding Chinese, Thai and Hispanic.
“I believe it’s really important for
people to come to this event to see
what Vietnamese culture is about,”
Yee said. “I believe a lot of people
don’t really know about it.”
The cost for the event, including
dinner, is $8 for students and $9 for
general admission.
Event details life in factory towns
■Thursday night, Jim Keady
and Leslie Kretzu described
their experience working in
an Indonesian village
By Venus Killen
for the Emerald
Open sewers lining the streets,
undrinkable water, 24-hour work
days, state repression and six-fami
ly bathrooms are just a few condi
tions that Jim Keady and Leslie
Kretzu described as part of their ex
perience when they lived in an In
donesian factory town.
Thursday night, Keady and Kretzu,
founders of the Living Wage Project,
detailed their experiences with a pres
entation and slide show. To an audi
ence of approximately 150, the pair
shared their story of living among
poverty-stricken, factory-controlled
villages of an Indonesian community.
“The maxim that we work through
with our project is education, em
powerment and action,” Keady said.
“There is a lot of information that
consumers don’t have about this situ
ation that they need to have in order
to make informed decisions — as
consumers, athletes, shareholders,
students at a school heavily funded
by the Nike corporation.”
After attempts in May of 1999 to
find work in a Nike-owned factory
abroad failed, Keady enlisted the
Kretzu’s help to organize the next
best thing.
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This past August, the two Ameri
cans embarked on a month-long
journey to investigate the reality of
sweatshop life in Indonesia.
Calling their endeavor the Living
Wage Project, the pair took up resi
dence in a Nike factory town. The
team spent the month of August in a
small Indonesian community, liv
ing on the standard Nike wage of
10,000 rupees per day, which they
said translates to roughly $1.20 in
the United States.
During their hour-long presenta
tion, they spoke of living conditions
that they said were unable to sustain
basic, family life, such as workers
not able to independently unionize
without the fear of death, families
unable to pay for health care for
their children, workers being fed
rancid meat, and families having to
choose between meals and basic
cleaning supplies.
“This is the information that
these companies don’t want you to
hear because this is the human
side,” Kretzu said. “The reality is
that capital and resources are being
centralized in the elite and upper
middle class. Indonesian factory
workers are struggling to feed them
selves and their children. The reali
ty is multinational corporations
aren’t economically developing de
veloping countries.”
According to Keady and Kretzu, to
double the wages of all 110,000 In
donesian factory workers would cost
Nike $16 million. This is two percent
of Nike’s current advertising budget
and a small amount when compared
to Nike’s profit margin and the pay
rate of CEOs, they said.
Kretzu and Keady both advocat
ed student action in aiding the
cause of human rights overseas.
Among other things, they advised
writing letters or joining the efforts
of student or community groups.
“It is impossible to take the posi
tion of neutrality in a situation of in
justice,” Kretzu said, when referring
to current monitoring practices of
college campuses.
In the Oregon University System,
in particular, the elimination of
sweatshop monitoring groups such
as the Worker Rights Consortium
and Fair Labor Association will
have a definite impact on the hu
man rights practices of large compa
nies, Keady and Kretzu said. Unless
overturned, they said, the new OUS
business policy would disallow
University involvement with such
groups.
Brought to campus by the Human
Rights Alliance, the presentation
was part of an effort to increase
sweatshop awareness on campus
and in the local community.
“We are hoping that the presenta
tion will take the issue back to what
it’s really about, which is human
rights and human dignity,” Chad Sul
livan, HRA member and student,
said. “I feel people are tired of the pol
icy aspects and legal debate. It’s time
to work on what’s important. ”
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