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The ADFC asked for a realloca
tion of its budget because the val
ue of basketball and football tick
ets will be higher next year
because of increased ticket prices
and more home games. Under a
good faith agreement the ADFC
has with the Senate, the ASUO is
supposed to be moving toward
paying 50 percent of the fair mar
ket value of students tickets with
incidental fee money.
If the Senate had not passed the
reallocation of the ADFC budget,
the ADFC would have cut 959
football seats and 690 men’s bas
ketball seats.
ADFC asked for $27,512 of sur
plus money to replace pre-season
ticket funds lost in the realloca
tion. If the request was not granted,
ADFC would cut all student tickets
for pre-season games. Having al
ready approved a 1.5 percent in
crease to pay for pre-season tickets,
senators were faced with the
choice of passing the request or
putting money towards pre-season
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Seventh-grader Virginia Ruiz applauds the festivities at Chicano Explosion. Ruiz’ class at
Kelly Middle School was in the audience as a reward for taking part in a school play.
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toured with the first generation
when we were four and five years
old,” Anahuac Valdez said. “I trav
eled with my father, and now we
have young ones with us.”
At Chicano Explosion on
Wednesday, El Teatro Campesino
performed “La Carpa de los
Rasquachis,” a musical written by
Valdez and members from the the
ater from 1973 to 1978.
“We just wanted to provide
some form of education so
a dialogue can form around
these issues. ”
David Jaimes
MEChA director
The group performed the final
version of the play in 1978, and it
basically went underground for the
next 24 years. El Teatro Campesino
revived the play because the issue
of Mexican farm workers’ rights has
never disappeared or been solved.
“We brought in El Teatro
Campesino to show the communi
ty about farm workers’ issues and
how we should be doing something
about them,” Jaimes said. “We just
wanted to provide some form of ed
ucation so a dialogue can form
around these issues.”
The play represents one man’s
journey to the United States to
work in the fields in hopes of a bet
ter life, and two characters, a devil
and a skeleton, portray the evil
holding back this young man’s free
dom. The devil has many different
.roles throughout the play, includ
ing a border control officer, drug
dealer and farm owner, while the
skeleton helps sneak the migrant
worker into the United States.
“The devil and the skeleton in the
play represent the abuse of power,
and the doubt and insecurity they
inflict on others prevents human be
ings from being thought of as sa
cred,” Valdez said. “The devil is the
boss, and the skeleton is the little
boss, and then there is just every
body else, and they don’t matter.”
As for the talent portion of the
show, MEChA members Julissa
Vasquez, Alina Hernandez, Zenia
Leyva, Mayra Gomez, Andrea Ro
driguez and Linda Rizza did a skit
called “Las Marias,” a female ver
sion of the El Teatro Campesino’s
play “Los Bendidos.” The skit
played off of society’s stereotypes of
Mexican women, and at the end
they show a non-traditional, true
Mexican-American intellectual and
bilingual woman.
“We didn’t use ‘Los Bendidos’
because it didn’t include women,
and we thought it was a little out
dated, so we changed the original
play,” Vasquez said.
Six members of Ganas, a group
from Jefferson Middle School that
MEChA tutors, danced to Jennifer
Lopez’s “It Ain’t So Funny” in
matching red tops and jeans.
MEChA member Isaac Torres did
a musical performance with bongo
drums to the song “Alien (Hold Onto
Your Dreams)” by Gil Scott Heron in
both Spanish and English. MEChA
member Jesus Garcia did a rap num
ber to a piece he wrote, while North
Eugene High School ninth grader
Maria Montoya made her singing de
but with “Como la Flor” by Selena.
A free salsa and merengue dance
preceded the event at 7:30 p.m. in the
EMU Ballroom with DJ Mario Mora.
E-mail reporter Danielle Gillespie
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemeralcl.com.
tickets without getting anything in
exchange for students.
The Athletic Department will
contribute some money from
fundraising and advertising to pay
for pre-season tickets as well. The
Senate approved a transfer of $540
from athletics’ advertising budget
to go toward pre-season tickets.
Some senators said athletics
was taking advantage of the
agreement it has with students to
pay 50 percent of the ticket value
by raising prices.
“I think this is bunk,” Sen. Katie
Howard said. “We do not have
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control over how much they in
crease ticket prices.”
ADFC member Sen. Kate
Kranzush said students on the
committee had done the best they
could to work out an arrangement
benefiting students that the Athlet
ic Department would accept.
“I have to swallow my pride and
say, my morals aside, we have to
do this,” she said.
Other senators expressed mis
givings but said they didn’t see
what choice they had without sac
rificing student tickets.
“The bottom line is, if we want
students to have tickets at the same
(level) next year, we have to do
this,” Sen. Eric Bailey said.
In other special requests, the
Senate denied a $2,120 request by
KWVA to send two employees to a
conference. The Senate approved a
$454 conference request by LGBT
Educational and Support Services
director Chicora Martin.
Senators Arlie Adkins and
Susie Shauger announced their
resignations.
E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell
at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com.
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