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UTSAV 2002
A celebration of a
5000 year old culture
Sunday; March 10
at EMU Ballroom
Dinner - 5pm
Program - 7:30pm
• Exhibition Tables
• Henna Painting
• Bindi Ornament
• Dance & Music
Tickets:
Available at EMU Ticket Office
and at the door.
$4 UO Students
$7 Public
presented by:
Students of the Indian Subcontinent
Info: sis@gladstone.uoregon.edu • 346-0660
News briefs
Student to tour
top ad agencies
University senior Christie Wong
was one of 25 national finalists se
lected by the American Advertising
Federation to participate in an all
expenses-paid recruiting tour of top
New York advertising agencies.
“It was a great experience,”
Wong said. “It was an opportunity
to get your foot in the door and
make some connections.”
The AAF’s “Most Promising Mi
nority Student Program” is an ad
vertising industry award program
that recognizes and recruits minori
ty college students in advertising,
marketing, media and communica
tions. The workshop connected
leading advertising recruiters with
selected multicultural advertising
candidates from across the country.
University professor Charles
Frazer nominated Wong and ac
companied her to the workshop.
Wong and other finalists partici
pated in an interview workshop
and an awards ceremony Feb. 6
through 8. Each student was spon
sored by a different corporation —
AmeriMedia sponsored Wong. Her
name was featured in a full-page
advertisement in The New York
Times and she was also featured in
“Advertising Age,” the weekly na
tional newspaper for advertising
professionals.
The 25 graduating seniors who
participated in the workshop repre
sented colleges from 20 different
states. Corporate sponsors were
leading advertisers, agencies and
media companies including ABC,
American Airlines, America On
line, Young & Rubicam, The New
York Times and Pepsico Inc.
— Katie Ellis
SIS to hold
annual celebration
Henna painting, bindi ornaments
and exhibition tables from India,
Pakistan, Fiji and Nepal will be fea
tured at Sunday’s fourth annual
UTSAV, which is a general term for
celebration in Hindi.
Students of the Indian Subconti
nent not only organized the festi
val, but will also spend hours in the
kitchen preparing a traditional In
dian meal for the 5 p.m. dinner in
the EMU Ballroom. The rest of the
program will include traditional
dancing and a fashion show hosted
by SIS and various other student
groups. The event costs $4 for stu
dents and $7 for the general public.
SIS president Aarti Tanna said
she expects more than the 500 peo
ple who came to last year’s UTSAV
to attend this year. She expects fam
ilies from Portland and students
from Oregon State University, as
well as University students.
She said women traditionally
decorate their hands and feet with
henna painting for weddings and
festivals. The bindi, placed in the
mid-forehead, is also a fashion
symbol, she said.
She said she hopes the event goes
on without too many glitches and
lives up to everyone’s expectations.
“It’s our biggest event,” Tanna
said. “It’s our chance to put out our
culture and get closer to each other
in the process.”
— Diane Huber
Looking for a
great class
spring term?
ARCH 399: Great Architecture
MWF 12:00-12:50, 177 Lawrence Hall
This new class is open to all students.
If you took ARCH 201 last fall,
you will also enjoy this class. It
will cover 33 places at various
scales (one per lecture) in great
detail:
* great rooms
• great gardens
♦ great houses
♦ great places of worship
* great public buildings
* great public rooms
A course description is posted
outside of the Department of
Architecture office,
210 Lawrence Hall.
Green Parly 2000 presidential candidate Ralph Nader speaks with supporters outside the McDonald Theatre on Thursday afternoon.
Nader
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that only grassroots political move
ments can “return the power in this
country to its citizens.
“It really comes down to a few
people getting the ball rolling,” he
said. “It starts with a sense of civic
self-respect and empowerment.”
Nader, a self-proclaimed public
citizen, warned American citizens
earlier in the day at a press confer
ence to be wary of three political
groups: “Autocratic idealites led by
(Attorney General) John Ashcroft,”
commercial militarists and arms
dealers “repeatedly condemned by
retired admirals and generals,” and
“corporations that hardly waited for
the dust to settle from the massacres”
of Sept. 11 before approaching Con
gress to request “financial bailouts.”
He said that the efforts of these
groups have resulted in the “misal
location of billions of American dol
lars” and created a “massive distor
tion of our democratic priorities.”
Nader was, as expected, highly
critical of the Bush Administra
tion’s handling of the events fol
lowing Sept. 11. He said he is tired
of the Bush Administration “using
the American flag as a gag on Amer
ican citizens,” and said, “We
shouldn’t let the bureaucrats in
Washington, D.C. and corporate ex
ecutives take the flag from us.
“We have to have discussions and
debates, but instead we’re being told
to shut up and get in line,” he said.
He criticized the administration’s
labeling of the efforts in Afghanistan
as a war, and said that, “If it is a war,
why didn’t the Senate declare it
one?” He also asked why they didn’t
seek approval and aid from the Unit
ed Nations before proceeding.
The answer, he said, was that the
Bush Administration “did not want
any restrictions, as befits a West
Texas sheriff.”
Nader’s candor didn’t carry over
to a question on many people’s
minds, however.
“It’s too early to tell” whether he’ll
run for president in 2004, he said.
Nader said he is pleased that the
Green Party continues to grow, but
also said the party’s growth is
“slower than I would like.”
Green Party members across the
country have credited the much of
the party’s recent growth to Nader’s
joining. Dean Myerson, the party’s
political coordinator, said Nader
“took the grassroots foundation we
laid and expanded them nationwide.
“He brought enormous visibility
and-credibility,” Myerson said.
Sarah Charlesworth, a spokes
woman for the Pacific Green Party,
said since Nader’s 2000 presidential
campaign, Lane County has gone
from less than 100 registered Green
Party members to almost 2,000.
Oregon had the second highest
percentage of Nader voters in the
country in 2000, behind only
Michigan, and in 1996 had the
highest percentage in the country.
Nader said he has long admired
Oregonians.
“When I was growing up in Con
necticut, I was always impressed
by how many reforms started in
Oregon,” he said.
Geoff Hoffa, the UO Cultural Fo
rum contemporary issues coordina
tor, said Nader’s visit should demon
strate that political alternatives con
tinue to exist and proliferate.
“A lot of Eugeneans are disillu
sioned and discontent with the cur
rent system, and looking for alter
nate political heroes,” he said.
“Nader could be that person. ”
The Cultural Forum and organiz
ers of this weekend’s Public Inter
est and Environmental Law Confer
ence jointly invited Nader to speak
Thursday and then give a keynote
address at the law conference.
Nader is touring to promote his
new book, “Crashing the Party:
How to Tell the Truth and Still Run
for President,” and will have a book
signing from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. to
day in the EMU. Nader will also
give a keynote address Friday at
noon in the EMU for the Environ
mental Law Conference.
E-mail reporter Marty Toohey
at martytoohey@dailyemerald.com.