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Crutchmaster
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tasks such as picking up a bottle
while on crutches. In other clips, he
was shown falling or having diffi
culty walking.
The significance of these perform
ances lies not in what he is doing,
Shannon said, but in how people re
act to him. Throughout the clips, by
standers rush to Shannon’s aid, even
when he doesn’t need help.
“No matter what I do, how far I go
in terms of what I represent, there’s
still people who look at me like ‘that
kid needs help,”’ Shannon said.
Shannon said his own creative
adaptations allow him to do things
on crutches many would consider
impossible.
Because of his disability; walking
long distances, even on crutches,
can be very painful, Shannon said.
But rather than using a wheelchair,
Shannon gets around by traveling
nearly everywhere by skateboard.
He uses his crutches to propel him
self along in what he calls “cross
country urban skiing. ”
What he is best known for, how
ever, is the unique dance style
which has earned him respect and
recognition among the hip-hop an d
dance communities.
Audience members clapped and
shouted their approval as the man
known as the “Crutchmaster” per
formed two hip-hop dances so flu
idly acrobatic that the crutches un
der his arms appeared to be jnere
extensions of his limbs.
When Shannon spoke about his
work, which he said combines ele
ments of breakdancing, skateboard
ing and his disability, his passion
for dance was evident.
“The dance is a feeling, a sensa
tion. It’s a place as much as it is a
move,” Shannon said.
Crowd reaction to Shannon’s per
formance was positive. Freshman
Haben Woldu, who is originally
from Ethiopia, said she had never
seen anything like it.
“It was really, really awesome. I
have never seen disabled people do
anything like that before because I
come from a country where dis
abled people are unable to lead a
normal life,” Woldu said.
ASUO Diversity Recruitment and
Retention Director Joy Nair, who
helped to organize the event, said
Shannon’s speech raised many im
portant issues which are not often
discussed at the University.
“He hit a lot of the concerns of
able-bodied people, and how we
look at disabled people, and how
we react toward the disabled com
munity,” Nair said.
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“Students work very hard to
make the most of the dollars we
have, and we take that responsibili
ty very seriously,” he said.
The only committee member to
respond to Breslow’s testimony,
Sen. Cliff Trow, (D-Corvallis), said
his wife used to work with students
as they divided the incidental fee.
“It’s amazing the interest they ex
hibited over the years,” he said.
“It’s one of the important activities
of student government.”
Mary Cunningham, chairwoman
of the board of the Oregon Student
Association, took a different ap
proach when speaking with legisla
tors. She said increasing tuition by
8 percent over the next two years is
a move in the wrong direction.
Cunningham, who is also the
state affairs coordinator of the Port
land State University student body,
said that in the 1980s, the state pro
vided about $2 for every dollar stu
dents paid in tuition.
With the proposed increases,
Cunningham said, students will
end up contributing more money to
higher education than the govern
ment will.
The budget “asks students to pay
more, but receive less,” Cunning
ham said. “Unfortunately, this
budget says higher education is not
enough of a priority to meet student
contributions dollar for dollar.”
Much of the student representa
tion at legislative work sessions has
been pre-emptive rather than reac
tive, OSA Legislative Director John
Wykoff said. Students want legisla
tors to know where their concerns
lie before the issues become too big.
After Monday’s session, Wykoff
said, the situation did not look too
grim.
“The fact that there were no neg
ative questions is a testament to
how good a job [the students] did in
representing the needs of students
in both tuition and student fees,”
Wykoff said. “It also shows that the
committee members seemed to un
derstand the important role student
fees play in the university experi
ence.”
About 15 University students at
tended last Thursday’s committee
work session, and students will
travel to the Capitol for another ses
sion today. Legislative Organizer
Melissa Unger said that if questions
about the incidental fee are going to
come up, it will be during today’s
session, which has been scheduled
for discussion of policy issues.
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added that by this summer, when
the budget will be completed and
the financial picture will be clearer,
classified employees and the OUS
should be able to reach an agree
ment and avoid a strike.
Zunich did not want to give any
hint of the University’s position on
any issues prior to the opening of
re-negotiations.
James Jacobson, a bargaining
table representative for University
classified employees, said one of
the first issues that may be tackled
in opening sessions will be health
benefits and insurance. Like Zu
nich, however, Jacobson did not
give details about the union’s
stance.
But he did say that University
classified employees need raises to
maintain quality of life standards
and parity with other state employ
ees.
“We’re working for hourly wages
that are less than Lane Community
College, Lane County or the city of
Eugene,” he said. “If the UO wants
to retain good people, we need
some raises.”
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