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Bucks continued from page 1 construction of the EMU Am phitheater in 1996. After spring term, the account balance may be close to $800,000, ASUO President Jay Breslow said, and the ASUO is discussing ideas such as campus lighting improve ment for the bulk of the money. A $100,000 chunk, however, is designated solely for “Bucks for Ducks.” But students who dream of a gi ant mudslide or a large, wild duck party shouldn’t get their hopes up. The bucks can’t be spent on just anything. Student suggestions cannot re quire building anything new, but they may involve alterations to ex isting structures. The cost must be one-time-only, which would ex clude any kind of scholarship or endowment. The proposal should also serve a large number of stu { C This is an opportunity to get new voices involved. Peter Watts Senate president dents, and cannot include alcohol. A four-member committee, com prised of three ASUO members and one administrator, will review the student proposals and choose its fa vorite. ASUO public relations direc tor Jamie Gerlitz, who is coordinat ing the campaign, said a final decision should be made by late April. Senate President Peter Watts, a member of the committee, said the campaign’s main target is the stu dent population that is not usually 'heard from within the ASUO. “I hope students and student groups not necessarily involved with student government will have projects they care about and bring them to our attention,” he said. “With a lot of student government campaigns, the same people are in volved and they bring the same ideas. This is an opportunity to get new voices involved.” Gerlitz added that the adminis tration’s involvement with the cam paign, which includes representa tion on the committee and contributions to advertising costs, also helps bring the administration and students together on the same forum on how to spend fees. With the current controversies surrounding proper incidental fee use, one of the biggest arguments has been that students don’t have much control over the fee. Gerlitz said the campaign is a good way to reach out to students and make them feel like they do indeed have a voice. Students “don’t really have a lot of say in how the student fee is used,” she said. “This puts some power back into their hands.” The deadline to submit ideas to the ASUO Executive is April 20. Log on to www.dailyemerald.com andweigh in with our online poll on how the overrealized money should best be spent TALK ABOUT GOD! www.ducknavs.org Thoughts, Questions, Answers From The Navigators Shannon continued from page 1 basketball games Wednesday put on by the Port land Wheelblazers. Rounding out the week are workshops focusing on different aspects of dis abilities such as mental handicaps and how the University accommodates for students with dis abilities, as well as a coffee hour discussion with the diversity team. Shannon, who hails from Pittsburgh, Pa., is the week’s keynote speaker and is known both nation ally and internationally for the elegance and fluidi ty of his dancing on crutches. The “Crutchmaster” is widely recognized in the New York City hip-hop and club dance scene for his use of mobility and movement, and is well known for his street per formances in Chicago and New York that some times integrate a skateboard in his dancing. Shannon’s disability caused him to start using crutches when he was 5 years old, and when he was 12, treatment and surgery helped clear his arthritis. But treatments helped only temporarily. His dis ability re-emerged in his mid-20s, and Shannon said this combined experience of being both a “dis abled person” and an “able-bodied person” is what gives him a unique perspective. He added that his presentation is more about “able-bodied” people. “For me, disability awareness week is a mo ment for me to reflect on how people with dis abilities are perceived by able-bodied people,” he said. “I don’t perceive myself differently, but the world reacts differently to me.” Shannon, who will discuss the spectacle of awkwardness through dance and disability, said that he doesn’t see himself as an expert, teacher or representative for people with disabilities. “I am an artist, and the way I create and make things happen is a little different,” he said. “My approach is to come and talk about what I see as the political and cultural relationship between [disability issues] and other civil rights move ments. But I can’t speak for the majority of dis abled communities because they’re so diverse ...disabilities affect you to different degrees at different times of your life.” Nilda Brooklyn, ASUO multicultural advo cate, said the ASUO intends for the week to edu cate students about generalizations made about people with disabilities, an underrepresented population in the campus community. Thursday’s workshop, for example, will ad dress mental disabilities — a subject that is not talked about as much as more visible handicaps, such as people in wheelchairs. The discussions will also incorporate the Americans with Dis abilities Act codes and common complaints the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Of fice receives from people with disabilities. Sid Moore, human rights investigator at the Af firmative Action office, said that of the complaints he receives, many of them come from students with disabilities. Many times, he said, the com plaints include the University’s failure to accom modate for less traditional handicaps, such as At tention Deficit Disorder and dyslexia. “Disability discrimination is one of the most common reasons people file grievances,” he said. “Disabilities come in a wide variety of shapes and forms, and some of it isn’t as easy to see and accommodate for. ” Nair said that throughout this week, the ASUO diversity team hopes to open students’ eyes to di versity issues that are not often addressed and howr they affect campus. “The school doesn’t address all of these issues and neither do students,” she said. “We want to make students more aware and to tie all this in with how the University treats these issues. ” Robinson Theatre UNIVERSITY THEVTRF. april 13-14,19-22, 27-28 benefit matinee april 22 for Community Mediations Services. 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