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the council monitors and responds
to “general academic policies” and
identifies, develops and advocates
“new and revised baccalaureate de
gree policies as appropriate.” Mem
bers said it does not act as a judicial
body, but it could suggest policy
changes, such as adding ASL as a
language-fulfilling course.
University Registrar Herb
Chereck could not comment on
Evangelista’s specific petition, but
he said the whole issue of allowing
ASL to satisfy the foreign language
requirement goes back to 1994,
again with the University Under
graduate Council. He said a letter
dated in March of 1994 written by
then Provost Norman Wessells,
states that after a lot of discussion,
the Provost recommended ASL
should not satisfy the requirements.
Chereck said the issue has once
again been raised, and the Under
graduate Council was asked to re
view the policy again this year.
Alan Dickman, who sat on the Un
dergraduate Council in 1994, told the
Emerald in June that council mem
bers agreed that ASL was an individ
ual language, but members could not
reach consensus on whether ASL
possesses enough unique literary,
historical and artistic markers to
qualify it as a separate culture.
Evangelista said he thinks the Uni
versity administration still doesn’t
believe ASL has enough “culture” to
warrant recognition. He disagrees,
saying there is a deaf culture.
“The Spaniards have cultural
markers, the French have cultural
markers and the deaf have cultural
markers,” he said.
Dr. Carl Falsgraf, director of the
Oregon University System’s Center
for Applied Japanese Language
Studies, agrees with Evangelista,
saying people who sign belong to a
distinct culture with its own cus
toms, rules and norms.
“Linguistic studies have described
complex grammatical systems, in
flections, accents, dialects and slang
in sign languages,” he said.
Evangelista added ASL is “a
beautiful, visual language” filled
with emotion. He said by not mak
ing ASL a language, the University
is falling short of its goal to offer a
diverse education.
“Here is the flagship university of
the state,” he said. “You’d think of
all universities, this would be the
one to do it.”
Undergraduate Council members
added that the council will discuss
the option of picking up ASL as a
language in winter term, but cannot
anticipate the outcome.
Evangelista said the academic of
ferings at the University are very
strong, and he is very happy with
his other course work. The Univer
sity’s strength makes him believe
even more that ASL should be rec
ognized as fulfilling the language re
quirement.
To raise awareness of this issue,
Evangelista is planning a public fo
rum on campus that will take place in
a few weeks. He is inviting speakers
and all students to come and make
their voices heard regarding the issue.
“To take a stand is very challeng
ing, but I’m committed to fight for
what I believe in my heart is right,”
Evangelista said.
Anna Seeley is a student activities reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached
at annaseeley@dailyemerald.com.
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forming the no-holds-barred rock
musical since it garnered subculture
popularity in the mid-1970s.
The local theater Actors Cabaret
of Eugene, which opened this week
end, has been running the play, a
cross between a grade-B horror
movie, science-fiction and rock ’n’
roll, for seven years.
Jim Roberts, the producing-artis
tic director of this fall’s ACE produc
tion, explained their motivation:
“The reason we do it is for fun. ”
Returning for his second perform
ance as the science professor, Dr.
Scott, theater arts major Tyler Holden
said, “It’s some sort of addiction.”
The play’s longevity demonstrates
that the performance is a pleasure for
the crowds as well as the cast. Even
though the play was based in the
1950s and written in the 1970s, it con
tinues to entertain audiences because
of what fans say are its laugh-out-loud
comedy, shock-value, audience par
ticipation and classic themes.
Holden said Rocky Horror re
hashes age-old subjects with a new
twist.
“It’s Frankenstein’s story gone
Translyvanian, gone Tim Curry,”
the senior said.
The story opens as Brad and Janet, a
young American couple, decide to an
nounce their recent engagement to
their science professor, Dr. Scott. Dur
ing the stormy, topsy-turvy evening,
their car tire blows out on a deserted
highway, and they are forced to seek
refuge at a nearby castle. Instead of
finding assistance, the couple encoun
ters a chorus of transsexual Transly
vanian aliens and their mad scientist
Frank N. Furter, who is on the verge of
unveiling his new creation, the Ado
nis-of-a-man, Rocky Horror.
Holden said the show unfolds into
a lesson about love, trust, pleasure
and the possibility of humankind.
“And it’s a big funny hoo-ha-ha,”
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While the ACE production uses
the same script as the film, the cos
tumes, sets and interaction are dif
ferent. In addition to the traditional
leather, garters, fishnets and flesh,
Roberts said he has added Las Ve
gas-style glitz. Holden said the cos
tumes “are so gaudy it almost hurts
your eyes to look at them.”
Film veterans should expect a
sparse set, a five-piece band and a
more active chorus. In addition,
Roberts said the play will be more
interactive than the movie. The ac
tors are able to respond to the crowd
and hit the callback lines different
ly, ensuring that each performance
is unique.
Freshman Chelsea Cook, who
has seen the film more than a hun
dred times, said, “Audience partici
pation makes me feel like I am a part
of something that I love to watch. ”
She said participation helps the
audience to realize the story’s
theme: “Don’t dream it, be it.”
But these participation traditions
did not exist at the play’s 1973 de
but; they evolved with the populari
ty of the story.
The play was written by actor
Richard O’Brien, who worked as a
cheese farmer in New Zealand be
fore he became a subculture king.
First performed in London, “The
Rocky Horror Show” won acclaims
from the London Evening Standard.
With the backing of American entre
preneur Lou Adler and Twentieth
Century Fox, the play jumped from
stage to screen in 1975. The film
What: -The Rocky Horror Show,”
a play written by Richard O’Brien,
directed by Joe Zingo and performed
by local actors
When: 8 p.m. — Nov. 2,3,9 and 10 |
Where: Actors Cabaret of Eugene
at996 Willamette St.
What to bring: Low-powered squirt
guns, flashlights, newspapers, party
hats, noisemaksrs, balloons, playing
cards and pink rubber gloves
How much: Prices range from $14 to
$22. Tickets are available at 683-4268.
Halloween; The Halloween
performance is at 8p.m. at the
Me Donald Theater, I ocated at
1010 Willamette St. Tickets cost $20.
Gift certificates will be awarded
to the aud ience members with the
best costumes.
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
bombed in most cities; however,
since its start on the midnight circuit,
the film has become a cult staple.
According to www.rockyhor
ror.com, fans began singing along
with the songs such as “Toucha
Toucha-Toucha-Touch Me” and
“Sweet Transvestite.” They talked
back to the screen, mimicked char
acters’ actions and started wearing
fishnets, leather, lingerie and other
risque costumes to showings.
Although the response depended
on the crowd and theater, many au
dience participation traditions
evolved to include pulling out
lighters; firing squirt guns; throwing
toast, rice and playing cards; rattling
noisemakers during the creation
scene; and doing the “Time Warp”
in the aisles during the closing cred
its. Oblivious to these traditions,
some “virgins” were tormented by
returnees before performances.
After many years of clean-up dif
ficulties, flashlights have replaced
lighters, rice and toast are banned in
many venues and squirt guns must
be low-powered.
Holden said that audience partici
pation is modified for safety reasons.
He said it would be dangerous to
wear high heels with rice on the stage.
“It’s really hard to act with some
one shooting a water gun in your
eye,” he said.
But ACE still allows this tradi
tion to continue.
And now, those who are even fur
ther removed from Little Richard,
the Red Scare and Charles Atlas still
attend showings. The play just
closed on Broadway this Septem
ber, and the story is played and per
formed on many college campuses
close to Halloween.
“The Rocky Horror Show” will be
performed at the McDonald Theater
at 1010 Willamette St. on Wednes
day, Oct. 31, at 8 p.m. Tickets are
$20. The production moves to ACE,
996 Willamette St., for performanc
es Nov. 2, 3, 9 and 10. Tickets range
from $14 to $22.
Anne Le Chevallier is a features reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
She can be reached at
annelechevallier@dailyemerald.com.
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laws to pedestrians not giving appropriate right of way.
Cyclists are required, by law, to adhere to the same
traffic laws that apply to cars, said Aguilar. All laws, he
said, except for things like using an automatic turn sig
nal or having break lights.
“Bikes have to stop at stop signs and yield the right of
way just like cars do,” Aguilar said. “Bikes can, however,
ride up next to a car as long as the car is not turning right. ”
Sgt. Rob Olson, another EPD officer assigned to the cam
pus team, said cyclists also need to yield the right away to
pedestrians when they are riding on the sidewalk. Tickets
for cyclists have the same base fine as tickets for cars.
“We have an ongoing problem with cyclists,” Ol
son said.
Public Safety Director Tom Fitzpatrick said pedestri
ans tend to act somewhat condescendingly toward cars
when crossing streets, especially at the crosswalk in front
of the Hamilton Complex on Agate Street.
“It can be really difficult to see pedestrians clearly,”
Fitzpatrick said.
Aguilar said it’s important to remember that once a
car has begun to make a turn from a stop sign, the car
now has the right of way before the pedestrian.
Trouble areas that EPD is now watching more carefully
are on University Street from 15th Avenue to 18th Avenue,
on 15th Avenue from Agate Street to University Street and
on Agate Street from 13th Avenue to 15th Avenue.
Lindsay Buchele is the community editor for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
She can be reached at lindsaybuchele@dailyemerald.com.
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“Anytime you hold vacancies or
restrict overtime and reduce salaries,
you have some impact on student
services,” Oregon University System
spokesman Bob Bruce said.
The first plan, and the second, to
be finished by Nov. 19, outline ad
ministrative and programmatic cuts
as well as the impact such cuts
would have on student services and
academic programs.
The University’s plan to trim ad
ministrative costs demonstrates
how anywhere from $151,074 to
$755,369 could be cut from the
roughly $7.55 million general fund
administrative budget in the current
biennium.
But University officials said ad
ministrative costs are so lean that
trimming them could lengthen lines
for student services such as student
billing and financial aid by making it
impossible to hire new employees.
“When I hear any talk about cuts
in basic front-line student services, it
makes me a little concerned students
will pay a heavy price for that,” said
Bart Lewis, who works in student
billing. “We’ve tried to tell them sys
temwide that for every three classi
fied workers, there are 1.4 officers of
administration. What we felt is, we
need more front-line support instead
of officers of administration.”
But cut targets are limited in each
department.
“You can’t ask the financial aid
director to also run the business of
fice,” said Francis Dyke, associate
vice president of resource manage
ment and co-author of the Universi
ty’s administrative reductions plan.
Reductions could also scale-back
the University’s in-state and out-of
state travel budgets, limiting the
school’s ability to secure research
grants or recommend new programs
to administrators who oversee Ore
gon’s public universities: the OUS.
“It’s hard for them to make more
room for administrative savings,”
said Michael Kellman, chairman of
the Senate Budget Committee. “But
the first priority is academic pro
grams. At some point, these cuts
might be big and bad enough that
we have to cut academic programs. ”
Eric Martin is a higher education reporterfor
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
at ericmartin@dailyemerald.com.