Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 2001)
Leadership retreat builds diversity ■The Leaders Eagerly Advocating for Diversity 2001 retreat helped student leaders learn about ASUO procedures By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald While other students were prepar ing for Dead Week and finals, Do minique Beaumonte, one of next year’s student senators, was learning how to be a stronger leader. About 40 University students at tended a leadership retreat over the weekend in which they learned to relieve stress by painting pictures, practiced their communication skills, exercised the art of delegat ing responsibilities and even sang Boyz II Men tunes. The Leaders Eagerly Advocating for Diversity (L.E.A.D.) 2001 leader ship retreat took place Friday and Saturday. The free event included workshops, housing and meals at the Namaste Retreat and Confer ence Center in Wilsonville, Ore. Beaumonte, director of the Black Student Union and the Multicultur al Center’s public relations coordi nator, said the transition retreat al lowed student leaders to get to know each other and to build diver sity. Beaumonte said students partici pated in an activity that involved taping written-out stereotypes to the foreheads of a few individuals, and then helping them figure out what the stereotypes were. There were representatives at the retreat from almost every student union on campus, said Bola Ma jekobaje, the MCC’s networking ad vocate assistant. She said the MCC staff organized the retreat as a chance for participants to get away from Eugene and build relation ships with each other. “If we can all trust each other and work together next year, we will he that much more powerful,” Ma jekobaje said. ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jennifer Creighton gave a presenta tion Saturday called “Knowing the System.” Students learned about the University and the Oregon Uni versity System budgets as well as the Green Tape Notebook, which contains the rules governing the ASUO. “Student unions need to know the Green Tape Notebook is a re source. It is knowledge, and knowl edge is power,” Beaumonte said. “Student unions need to strengthen their knowledge of how the system works.” He said students also learned how to fill out forms to spend mon ey from their budgets and how to ask the ASUO Student Senate for funding. “It was really valuable because I’m going to be on the Student Sen ate next year,” Beaumonte said. Beaumonte added that it is im portant for senators to serve as a re source for students. To test their communication skills, he and four other leaders formed a mock senate, and partici pants practiced asking for money from the student incidental fee gen eral surplus. “They were really hard on us,” said Hang Huynh, next year’s office manager for the Asian-Pacific Stretch Your Summer Check Out the SEPTEMBER EXPERIENCE PROGRAM September 4-14, 2001 • Short on your group requirements? • Need a few more upper-division credits? • Searching for interesting lower-division credits? • Looking for a unique way to wrap up your summer? • Enthusiastic about getting a jump on fail? • Does $550 for 5 credits sound like a deal to you? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions you need to find out more about the September Experience Program. Through the September Experience Program, resident and nonresident students can take a morning course coupled with an afternoon workshop* for the low price of $550. That’s a total of up to 5 credits in nine days for just $550! The University of Oregon’s September Experience Program has the courses you need, the courses you want, and the courses you ought to be in. Courses offered are listed below: Course No. Course Title Instructor Credits CRN Grading Option Time ASTR121 The Solar System Zimmerman 4 43314 Graded or P/NP ANTH170 Introduction to Human Origins Nelson 4 43312 Graded or P/NP ANTH314 Women and Culture I Halberg 4 43313 Graded or P/NP CHEM199 Math Skills for Science Svanevik 4 43315 P/NP GEOG 206 Geography of Oregon Baldwin 4 43316 Graded or P/NP MATH 95 Intermediate Algebra TBA 4 43317 Graded or P/NP PS 207 Intro. Contemp. Political Theory Wahlstrom 4 43318 Graded or P/NP SOC 301 American Society Hunt 4 43319 Graded or P/NP WR 49 Developmental Composition Mariner 3 43320 Graded or P/NP 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 8:00-11:50 EDLD408 Leadership DeGidio 1 43324 P/NP 13:30-14:20 CPSY199 College and Career Success Wilsey 1 43322 P/NP 13:30-14:20 SAPP 199 Drinking Decisions Mace 1-2 43323 P/NP 13:30-14:20 WR 199 Reading, Writing, Using the WWW Cusack 1-2 43325 P/NP 13:30-14:20 *Enrollment in the afternoon workshops is optional Room 30 Pacific 104 Condon 360 Condon 102 Deady 106 Condon 122 Esslinger 122 Grayson 123 Grayson 184 PLC 203 Chapman 104 Condon 107 Esslinger 184 PLC UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SUMMER SESSION SEPTEMBER EXPERIENCE Register by DuckWeb (http://duckweb.uoregon.edu/) or DuckCall (346-1600) today! Information: 346-3475 orseptexp@darkwing.uoregon.edu American Students Union. “But now we’ll know what to expect. It was a good learning experience.” Huynh, a freshman business ma jor, said she and seven other mem bers from APASU attended the re treat. Huynh said it was a good oppor tunity because APASU members bonded better with the members of their own organization and met members of other student unions as well. ASUO Vice President Joy Nair said she attended the retreat to meet the people who will be taking on leadership positions in the student unions next fall and to hear their concerns about what she and ASUO President Nilda Brooklyn can do to improve student government. Nair said she wants the ASUO to serve as a resource for student unions throughout the year, and she wants the student union members “to see our faces more.” “It was a great way to start off the year with the new leaders,” Nair said. “I think it will help a lot toward the success of the unions next year.” Calendar Tuesday, June 5 Retirement Recognition Reception: Honors 20 University employees for their many years of service to the University. 3:30-5 p.m. Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall. Free. Jewish Studies Videos: Wendy Ober lander, director of “Nothing To Be Written Here” and “Still (Stille),” shows these videos about the Jewish Diaspora and family memories and discusses her work. 7 p.m. 214 Grayson. Free. Center for the Study of Women in So ciety Theater Performance: Martha Furey presents a solo performance of “La Flor de Mexico: Frida Kahlo." 7-9 p.m. Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial Union. Free. international Film Series: “Rosa Lux emburg” is the story of the founder of the Spartacus League, which opposed World War I. This is part of the “You Say You Want a Revolution?” series of films, shown in their original lan guages with English subtitles. 7-9 p.m. Keithan Lounge, 122 Pacific. Free. News briefs Medford man sets world record for ‘Tutankham’ MEDFORD — A Medford man who nearly doubled the world record for the computer adven ture game “Tutankham” attrib uted his success to tips from the past champ. Rob Barrett, 29, posted a score of 488,760 points for the game over the weekend at the Classic Video Game World Champi onships in Laconia, N.H. The old mark was 249,000 points. “I talked with the current record holder, and we exchanged our secrets,” said Barrett. “He helped me get past the mental block of thinking I couldn’t do it. But he didn’t expect some rookie to come in and steal it from him.” The game requires players to gather treasures and find keys to progress to increasingly difficult levels of play. Barrett, who runs an elder care center in Central Point, first played the game in 1982. The competition, which drew 80 competitors in classic video games such as “Donkey Kong” and “Frogger,” was organized by Walter Day, publisher of the “Twin Galaxies Official Video r Game and Pinball Book of World Records.” The Associated Press LGBTA adds 'queer’ to title to promote inclusion The LGBTA has undergone a name change, and it will now be known as the LGBTQA — the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgen dered, Queer Alliance. While the change is not yet fi nalized, the decision ends three weeks of meetings in which mem bers discussed possibilities that would include more of the com munity the group represents. “Some people don’t refer to themselves as lesbian or gay,” said Melissa Baldwin, LGBTQA’s co director. “They refer to themselves as queer.” Queer Student Union was one option, but it caused a lot of con troversy. Baldwin said some peo ple told the group “my grand mother called me queer,” and that “I do not identify that way.” “We’re hoping that by taking that baby step, it would [eventual ly] narrow down to Queer Student Union in the future,” Baldwin said. The name also highlights the politically active side of LGBTQA, Baldwin said, because queer is a word with significant political connotations. RSTH'D 48 States • In business since 1976 • Licensed, Bonded, Insured • Free quotes National Service-Local Focus-Quality Transportation United Road Service, 2001 W. Fourth Plain, Vancouver, WA 98660
