Yamada center to host foreign language day
■ High school students will
converge on the University
for a variety of programs
promoting international culture
By Katie Ellis
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University will welcome ap
proximately 2,000 high school stu
dents from Oregon and Washington
on Friday when the Yamada Lan
guage Center kicks off the 24th For
eign Language and International
Studies Day.
FLIS Day is the University’s an
nual showcase of international pro
grams. High school students from
all over the Northwest choose from
the 100 different presentations and
events offered. Events range from
doing origami to learning German
hip-hop. The presentations and
events are intended to promote and
celebrate foreign languages and the
study of other cultures.
Foreign Language and Interna
tional Studies Day Coordinator Ju
lia Bossers said FLIS is a celebra
tion of cultural diversity and an
important event that helps pro
mote understanding for all those
involved.
Presentations are delivered by
members of the University faculty,
graduate teaching fellows, interna
tional students and others who are
interested in diversity, harmony
and international understanding.
FLIS 2001 offered activities fo
cusing on languages taught at the
University, including Spanish, Ger
man, Russian, Finnish and Indone
sian. Bulgarian folk dancing,
Swahili language lessons and Chi
nese calligraphy were some high
lights ofFLIS 2001.
The University Alumni Associa
tion offers a $1,000 scholarship to
the FLIS attendee who best answers
a short essay question.
Students from participating
high schools were invited to write
a 500-word essay on why under
standing and using foreign lan
guages is important, based on
their personal experience. The re
cipient of the scholarship must be
a high school senior who will be
attending the University in fall
2002. The scholarship winner will
be announced Friday.
The Yamada Language Center
only offers FLIS Day to high school
students, but University students
are invited to volunteer. Interested
students should attend Thursday’s
volunteer meeting from 5 to 6 p.m.
in the center, 119 Pacific. For fur
ther information, please contact the
center at 346-1538.
E-mail reporter Katie Ellis
at katieellis@dailyemerald.com.
News brief
Senate approves $8,000
for MCC performances
By a vote of 7 to 3, the ASUO
Student Senate on Wednesday
night gave $8,000 in surplus inci
dental fees to the Multicultural
Center to help pay expenses for a
series of upcoming performances
sponsored by the group.
Abigail Lovett, a student who
works in the MCC, said the hip
hop concerts, featuring Dead Prez,
will highlight issues focused on in
the MCC this year, such as the
prison industrial complex.
Senators voted 8 to 2 to grant a
special request by University The
atre for $2,500.
With the extra money, Universi
ty Theatre will now be able to pay
student actors in its Mad Duckling
summer theater production $500
for the season instead of the $250
they were paid previously, theater
student Rich Brown said.
The senate unanimously ap
proved two special requests by
MEChA, one for $1,705 to supple
ment funding for the group’s Cinco
de Mayo celebration, and one for
$361 to purchase compact discs for
the group’s radio show.
Senators also approved transfers
from accounts within the group’s
budget, including the transfer of
$1,127 from a holding account to
be used for food at the Cinco de
Mayo event.
In old business, senators dis
cussed moving the senate office
into the space currently occupied
by the Designated Driver Shuttle.
In new business, senators voted
on proposed rule changes to sen
ate office hours and special re
quest guidelines for groups new
to the ASUO Programs Finance
Committee budget.
— Kara Cogswell
Street Faire
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In addition, Campus Recycling
has asked all food vendors to pur
chase paper products that can be
composted.
“We have good communication
with the vendors to discuss what
they can bring to this campus,”
Borgida said.
Campus Recycling has also been
working with McDonald Wholesale
Co., a local paper supply company,
for discounts on disposable prod
ucts for the vendors to purchase.
Kaplan said the Street Faire will
be close to a zero-waste event, but
most paper cups have a plastic
lining and can’t be composted. At
this time, waxed paper cups are
the only biodegradable cup; how
ever, these cups can’t be used to
serve hot beverages. Many of the
cups at this year’s event will have
to go to the landfill.
“We are just trying to cut the
waste down lower and lower for
each event and trying to bring
awareness to this campus,” Borgi
da said. “We live in such a dispos
able culture and we want to
change the mindset of people, and
hopefully transcend our efforts
into the Saturday Market and the
Lane County Fair.”
Campus Recycling plans to make
the Willamette Valley Folk Festival,
held on campus May 17 to 19 a
zero-waste event also. The group
will be washing 4,000 reusable
plates and utensils in the EMU and
returning them to the estimated 15
food vendors that will be serving
the festival.
Borgida said they decided not to
use the reusable plates for the faire
because there are too many exit
points and plates could be stolen or
lost. In addition, the faire is during
the school week and the group
can’t have access to the dishwash
er in the EMU.
Student Recycling Coordinator
Jeff Ziglinski said he hoped com
posting would be utilized in the
University dorm’s cafeterias in the
future to help save wasted food.
“I think we are heading in the
right direction,” he said. “These
are great pilot projects, but it
would be great if the University
could institutionalize it.”
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Chase Challe, who works at the Kim’s Bento booth at the ASUO Street Faire, washes out the
end-of-the-day coffee pot into a dedicated sewer waste holding tank.
Schedule of bands
playing at the ASUO
Spring Street Faire
in the EMU Amphitheater
Bands playing between 10 a.m. and
2p.m. will be playing acoustic sets.
■ Thursday, April 25th
10 a.m. Jamie Rust
Honey Vizer
12p.m, Oddibie
1 p.m. Latin Dancers
2 p.m. KWVA
3 p.m. Bitesize
4 p.m. Paradigm
5 p.m. Hillbilly Holocaust
6 p.m. Mr. Sparkle
7 p.m, Alpha Charlie
8 p.m. Two Bucks Short
8 p.m, Alter Ego
■ Friday, April 26th
10 a.m. The Jetfersons
11 a.m. Papa's Soul Kitchen
12 p.m. Mature Boy Saints
1p.m. C.C.S.
2 p.m. Miami Airlines
3 p.m. Cober
4 p.m. Opening ceremony
for Asian Heritage Month
For more information, call the ASUO
at 346*3724 or KWVA Radio
at 346*4091.
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