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
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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.
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