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Wednesday,February 13, 2002
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 95
Workshop
participants
to perform
life stories
■ Students of artist Alex Luu
each tell ‘My Own Story’ tonight
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Performance artist Alex Luu be
gan the last “My Own Story” work
shop by asking participants to say,
“The big black bear bit the big black
bug. The big black bug bled blood. ”
At first, members of the student
groups involved stumbled over the
words, but after several rounds, the
tongue-twister rolled smoothly off of
their tongues.
The 11 participants from the Asian
Pacific American Student Union, the
Black Student Union, the Vietnamese
Student Association and MEChA have
been attending Luu’s workshop for two
hours, twice a week since the begin
ning of January. The workshops consist
of more than just games — each stu
dent has been perfecting a personal
monologue, called “My Own Story,”
which will be performed tonight at 6
p.m. in the EMU Ben Linder Room.
APASU first invited Luu to the
University last year to lead a three
week set of workshops after watch
ing his one-man show, “Three
Lives,” that he performed in Eugene
in April 2000. Luu, who arrived at
the University from Los Angeles six
weeks ago, will travel to Boston af
ter he leaves Eugene to begin anoth
er “My Own Story” workshop with
at-risk Asian high school students.
If all goes as planned, Luu will be
back at the University next year, and
his workshop will be offered as a
class for credit.
After warm-ups, the workshop in
volves writing on different prompts.
He might ask participants to “write
about five things you love and five
things you hate about your race,” he
said. But students sometimes come
into the workshop worried that they
don’t have any stories to write about.
Luu said one of the most reward
ing parts of the workshop is when
students “understand and realize,
Turn to Story, page 4
Rallying against violence
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Holly Magner makes her position on the subject of rapists known during a rally supporting campus safety.
Breaking curfew
Students rally against sexual violence for the safety of women on campus
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Wearing stickers that read, “No more curfews,”
and carrying signs bearing messages such as, “I’m
not afraid,” students filled the EMU Amphithe
ater on Tuesday afternoon to speak out about a
woman’s right to be safe.
Student organizers of the “No More Curfews on
Campus” rally wore an eclectic assortment of
brightly colored clothing and called themselves
“radical cheerleaders,” leading the 100-plus crowd
in cheers between speakers from campus groups.
“It’s nobody else’s right to steal my body,” they
chanted. “It’s nobody else’s right to steal my night. ”
Junior Lezlie Frye said she began planning the
rally with three other women, also University stu
dents, in response to an attempted rape of a woman
behind the Knight Library two weeks ago.
Once they started organizing the rally, other stu
dents wanted to get involved as well, she said.
Nikki Fancher, co-director of Project Saferide,
and Michelle Manoguerra, community education
program coordinator for Sexual Assault Support
Services, were among speakers at the rally.
Fancher said University administrators should
stop denying that women are at risk on campus
and do more to protect women against assault
and sexual violence.
“The administration needs to know that
women need to be safe,” she said. “We need to
make our demands heard. ”
Following the rally, organizers led the crowd
on a march down 13th Avenue, stopping at John
son Hall. Marchers then walked through the
building, and continued toward the Knight Li
brary, ending the march behind the library, where
the last attack on campus took place.
During the rally, organizers polled students in
the amphitheater about campus safety issues,
and what they would like to see changed, Frye
said. She said they would decide what step to
take next based on responses from students.
Senior Frankie Cohen, who attended the rally,
said the event let women’s voices be heard, and
could pave the way for change.
“It lets people know that we’re not just going to
sit here and be quiet... and that there are people
who are willing to take a stand, ” she said.
E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell
at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com.
PFC cuts
hit more
budgets
■ Many student groups received
reductions in their previously
approved 2002-03 budgets
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
On Tuesday, the ASUO Programs Fi
nance Committee decreased more stu
dent groups’ 2002-03 budgets, including
the Oregon Daily Emerald’s by $16,629.
The Emerald’s General Manager Judy
Riedel said PFC had reduced the 2001
02 budget a year ago to about $120,000
as a trial to see if the newspaper could
generate more money from advertising.
Because of the state of the economy, this
year the Emerald has lost many adver
tisers, she said. As a result, the Emerald
has had to cut printing costs by print
ing smaller papers and using less color,
she said. Decreasing next year’s budget
from the $132,870 had PFC reinstated
before the accounting error to $116,241
now “is like kicking us when we’re
down,” she said.
PFC member Erin Pursell said the
projected budget the Emerald had pre
sented wasn’t based on concrete num
bers, but rather it was based on
“previous amounts. ”
The Multicultural Center’s budget
dropped from $79,751 to $78,75. MCC
Program Adviser Steve Morozumi
urged PFC not to decrease MCC’s budget
because “the MCC provides an indis
pensable and vital role on campus. ”
He said the budget cut could keep
MCC from bringing in well-known
speakers like Amarai Baraka, who came
to the University last month.
PFC member Nadia Hasan voted
against the decrease. She said MCC is an
umbrella organization for many other
student groups, and a drop in allocation
would affect a wide range of students.
PFC members discussed leaving Stu
dents of the Indian Subcontinent’s budg
et at the $5,435 originally voted on, but
voted to decrease its budget to $5,206.
Pursell said she thought PFC should
vote to reduce SIS’s budget. Because SIS
is a new student group, there are no
records of their spending habits, she said.
“I feel a certain section of groups are
feeling targeted by the recalls,” she said.
Turn to PFC, page 3
ASUO candidates hope to add to ASUO Executive, not re-create it
■ Executive ticket Rachel Pilliod
and Ben Buzbee hope to also
challenge issues like health care,
leadership and voter turnout
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Rachel Pilliod, a sophomore po
litical science and general science
major, is running for ASUO presi
dent. Ben Buzbee, a junior business
major, is running for vice president.
Q: There are, at last count, 10
tickets running for ASUO Execu
tive, which is more than past years.
What sets yourselves apart from the
other candidates?
A: Our experience—I’m (Buzbee)
currently on student senate and I’ve
been on the EMU Board for the past
two years. Rachel was an (ASUO) in
tern last year, she was on the (ASUO
■ Constitution)
Court and she is
currently work
ing on health is
sues in the
ASUO office.
Q: What is
your platform?
A: There’s
four different
parts to it. The
first is going to
be focusing on leadership. (The
EMU Board) defunded the Student
Activities Resource Office, so we’d
ASUO
Elections
This is the sixth
in a 10-part
series of question
and-answer
sessions with
ASUO Executive
candidates.
like to build a
leadership of
fice. Second
would be health
care issues.
Health care in
surance is a very
confusing
process. We
want to create
awareness about
the opportuni
ties the Oregon
Health Plan has for students.
The next thing is legislative issues.
What we’d like to do is get (students)
to register to vote, to get excited about
the election, and then to clearly un
derstand the issues so that they are en
BUZBEE
couraged to vote.
Also, we will
work on getting
students up in
Salem to lobby
toward keeping
tuition low, pro
tecting the Ore
gon Opportunity
Grant, the Child
care Block Grant,
and just making
sure that those
standards are still in place.
The last part is continuation of
things that are going on in the Exec,
right now. Having worked with Nil
da and Joy, we want to keep work
ing on those issues that have been
implemented already.
Q: What will you advocate for on
the state level for students and how
will you carry out your plans?
A: The first part of it is going to be
a huge push on “get out the vote,” be
cause we will have new local legisla
tors. Health care will be one thing we
are going to be lobbying on, also keep
ing tuition low, as well as protecting
the Oregon Opportunity Grant and
the Childcare Block Grant, and also
working with the Oregon Students of
Color Coalition concerning minority
access to higher education.
Q: What specific campus-orient
ed issues will you champion?
A: We arfe going to work on
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