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Jonathan Nah, aka DJ Kiat from The Guerilla Collective in Singapore, spins on Saturday at Amplify, the Singapore Student Association’s
2002 Cultural Night, following a presentation of more contemporary Singaporean customs and culture.
Singapore Cultural Night
focuses on current events
■ Rather than concentrating
on the past, the Singapore
Student Association wanted
its cultural night to be unique
By Robin Weber
Oregon Daily Emerald
The walls of the EMU Fir Room
vibrated with the bass of Singapore
club music and models in the latest
fashions strutted their stuff in the
center of the floor. This was not the
traditional cultural night. At the
Singapore Student Association’s
Singapore Cultural Night 2002, Am
plify, on Saturday, organizers
sought to break the mold of other
University culture events.
Although the celebration hon
ored history and customs, there was
a strong emphasis on what’s going
on today in Singapore, and what
visitors could expect should they
journey across the seas and visit the
country and its culture.
Organizers are hoping this event
paves the way for other campus
clubs looking to focus not as much
on where their cultures were as
where they are, and, more impor
tantly, where they are going.
“Instead of the usual, with this
night we wanted to show the devel
opments of the 21st century and
capture the socio-cultural factors
in the event,” SSA President Lind
say Goh said.
“We want to show it still means
something to be a Singaporean,”
she added. Goh said she and a team
of almost 15 students have been
working for six months to bring the
night to life.
During the first hour, guests in
dulged in common Singapore taste
treats. As they nibbled on chicken
curry and fried rice and sipped jelly
cocktail ogar ogar — all made by the
students — they then feasted their
eyes on the display of many creative
talents from Singapore displayed
across the room.
“We wanted to show the
developments of the 21st
century and capture the
socio-cultural factors
in the event.”
Lindsay Goh
SSA President
Scenes from the latest Singapore
television sitcom piped out of a
nearby laptop on display, as the
remixed tunes continued to blast.
The group showcased popular art
forms in Singapore like The Neces
sary Stage theater group and dedica
tions to the group’s latest produc
tions “One Hundred Years in the
Waiting” and “Under the Last Dust.”
SSA members considered the
theater group to be a good represen
tative of the culture because they,
too, are looking at the future of the
Singapore people.
Other posters featured the Singa
pore design company Phunk Stu
dios and posters of the cabaret group
the Boom Boom Room. As the
crowd watched, some unaware of
just what to focus on, four Universi
ty models began parading around
the center of the floor, first as human
mannequins and then presenting a
show of the latest Singapore fash
ions from a local designer.
Students came out to see just
what the Singapore culture was all
about, and its influence on today’s
society.
“I’ve never been out of the coun
try, and just wanted to learn more
about other places,” student Tiffany
Hohmann said.
Once the cultural show wound to
a close, the dance began, featuring
Jonathan Nah, also known as DJ Kiat,
of The Guerilla Collective DJ group.
Kiat was flown out from Singapore
by the SSA to show off his talents for
spinning records and mixing fast
paced club music. Nah thinks the
music he played paints a clear pic
ture of the current Singapore culture.
“This is a definite side of Singa
pore,” Nah said. “Much of it is
shown through the more boring
academics, but this is the new
school,” he said.
Nah added that the government
in Singapore seems to always be
striving to promote multicultural
ism, and this is often portrayed in
the Singapore entertainment scene.
During the performance, hip-hop
dancers showed off their break
dance moves to the crowd. Overall,
the SSA wanted to highlight people
from Singapore, and show they are
having an impact on the future be
cause of their heredity.
“We want them to remember the
person behind it is still a Singapore
an,” Goh said.
E-mail reporter Robin Weber
at robinweber@dailyemerald.com.
Medicare
continued from page 6
“There’s more momentum on the
part of fiscal conservatives since
the farm bill passed,” said Rep. Pat
Toomey, R-Pa., a leading budget
cutter in the House. “We’re saying,
‘you know, what we really need to
do is tighten our belts here.’”
Not everyone is buying it all the
time.
The deal in which Speaker
Hastert won three lawmakers’
votes to give Bush expanded trade
authority, for example, sent
Medicare bonanzas to hospitals in
the districts of
Pennsylvania Republicans Phil
English and Don Sherwood and
New York Republican Sue Kelly.
The $90 million they’ll get comes
from shaving Medicare reimburse
ments elsewhere, however. Initial
ly, that was to have included hospi
tals in the district of Rep. Charles
Rangel of Harlem, senior Democrat
on the powerful Ways and Means
Committee, balked.
“Is a child that is sick in one area
more important than another child
because of the political persuasion
of their representative?” he protest
ed on the House floor.
The New York and Pennsylvania
payoffs survived after Hastert
pledged “no deleterious affect for
othec hpspitals in the New York
City” metropolitan area. Everyone
else will still have to pony up.
Self-described “pork busters”
such as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
are preparing to air other favors in
the Senate’s counterterrorism bill,
including $3.7 million earmarked
for health-related institutions in the
states of six Senate appropr'ators.
The bill had barely landed on the
Senate floor before McCain went af
ter Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the
ranking Republican on the Appro
priations Committee, over the rele
vance of a $5 million loan program
for fisheries.
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