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Monks to spend
weekend oncampus
Tibetan Buddhist monks from
the Drepung Loseling Monastery
are visiting campus this week, and
have been constructing a mandala
sand painting at the International
Student Lounge in the EMU since
Wednesday and will continue their
work today through Sunday.
The visit, sponsored by the UO
Cultural Forum, also includes a
photography exhibit on display in
the Adell McMillan Art Gallery and
a Saturday night performance at the
Willamette Valley Folk Festival,
called “The Mystical Arts of Tibet.”
The monks’ appearance at the
festival and on campus is intended
to promote peace, provide greater
awareness of Tibetan civilization
and to raise support for refugee
communities in India. The man
dala is an ancient spiritual art form
that is said to heal both the environ
ment and its inhabitants.
Their visit will conclude Sunday
at 11 a.m. when the monks will
erase the mandala and lead a pro
cession to the Willamette River,
where they will return the sand
used in the painting to the Earth.
Some of the sand will be given to
participants in the procession as a
sign of good luck and health.
Assembling of the mandala con
tinues at 9 a.m. today until 9 p.m.,
and will resume Saturday from 10
a.m. until 6 p.m. The musical per
formance will run on the main
stage at the EMU’s east lawn from 6
p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday night.
The closing ceremonies will com
mence on Sunday at 10 a.m. and
continue until noon. All events are
free and open to the public.
— Jonathan House
APASU to portray college
students in ‘hereandnow’
The Asian-Pacific American
Students Union will kick off its
biggest event for Asian-Pacific
American Heritage Month this
weekend with music, games and a
theatrical performance.
At 6 p.m. Saturday in the EMU
Ballroom, APASU will be present
ing “hereandnow,” an Asian
American theater group from Los
Angeles that has performed across
the nation for the past 10 years.
APASU Co-Director Jeanice
Chieng said the theater group will
be addressing various Asian
American stereotypes and issues
such as homosexuality in the
Asian community.
“This group portrays Asian col
lege students and experiences that
they face in their lives,” APASU
member Kao Cha said.
Pocket Face and Thai will be
the opening acts for the evening.
Pocket Face, an alternative band
from Eugene, will be performing
to fundraise for their upcoming
tour in Japan this summer. In ad
dition, Thai, a Vietnamese Amer
ican hip-hop artist from Portland,
will be singing his hit single
“Portland Love.”
On Sunday, APASU will host
a Spring Mini Olympics. Stu
dents can meet for the event at 2
p.m. in the Multicultural Center.
Participants will have the
chance to play basketball, tennis
and compete in a tug-of-war and
sack races. All of APASU’s
events are free to students and
the general public.
— Danielle Gillespie
Reasons behind cyanide truck theft
in Mexico unknown to authorities
By Laurence lliff
The Dallas Morning News
MEXICO CITY (KRT) — Mexi
can authorities found a stolen
truck Thursday carrying deadly
cyanide whose disappearance had
sparked heightened security along
the U.S.' border for fear that it
could be used in a terrorist attack,
officials said. Some of the cyanide
was missing.
The truck, stolen at gunpoint May
10 in the central state of Hidalgo,
was found about 75 miles away in
Zacatlan, Puebla.
Police, soldiers and environmen
tal officials were sent to the town,
120 miles north of Mexico City.
Puebla state officials issued a maxi
mum health alert because some of
the 10 tons of sodium cyanide, the
same material used in gas-chamber
executions, was missing.
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The powdery chemical, which is
also used in mining operations, was
transported in steel drums.
“It looks like several tons of the
material is missing,” said Puebla
Police Chief Manuel Mendez
Marin. “Someone may have carried
some of the material away without
knowing just how dangerous it is.”
Mendez said that it appears the
robbers did not know exactly what
diey were stealing, but that only an
investigation could determine that
for sure.
“We have no evidence to indicate
that this material was going to be
used in an attack, but we have not
ruled anything out either,” he said.
Cargo truck robberies in central
Mexico are common, and sometimes
the perpetrators don’t know what
they are going to get, Mendez said.
“Sometimes they get shoes,
sometimes they get clothes, some
times they get something they did
n’t expect,” he said. “In this case, it’s
likely that they confused the materi
al for something else and aban
doned the truck when they figured
it out. If they had wanted this mate
rial, they would have stolen all of it
and not left some behind. ”
Mendez said the truck was not
marked in any way to indicate that it
was carrying dangerous chemicals.
A Mexico City newspaper, El
Universal, posted a story on its Web
page saying that only 13 of the 96
steel drums of cyanide were found
on Thursday. Army soldiers and
chemical experts were sent to the re
gion to try to prevent a potential en
vironmental and human disaster,
the newspaper reported.
©2002, The Dallas Morning News.
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