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Voters' guide / Page 5A http://www.dailyemerald.com rriday, November 1,2002 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 104, Issue 46 Scarin g up votes Clinton encourages students to support the Democratic party and vote in the upcoming election Jan Montry Campus/Federal Politics Reporter Former President Bill Clinton visited McArthur Court on Thursday, filling the arena with more than 4,000 people as he promoted U.S. Senate candidate Bill Bradbury and Oregon guber natorial candidate Ted Kulon goski. U.S. Congressman Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene, Everclear lead singer Art Alexakis and ASUO Presi dent Rachel Pilliod also spoke. With five days re maining be fore the election, speakers focused on raising support for the two falter ing Democrats. Recent polls by Riley Research Associates for Portland television station KGW show Bradbury trailing Smith 34 to 56 percent. A gubernatorial poll showed Kulongoski’s battle with Republican Kevin Mannix as a statistical tie. Clinton, who just visited Hawaii and soon will travel to Arizona and Michigan to raise support for other Democrats, spent much of his time explain ing to the crowd why he cares about politics even though his INSIDE Measure 25 would raise basic wage PAGE 4A Republican gubernatorial candidate Kevin Mannix talks to sophomores Claudia Martin (right) and David Kurushimaon Thursday at the University. Photos by Adam Amato Emerald Former President Bill Clinton addresses an audience of more than 4,000 at McArthur Court Thursday to rally support for local Democratic candidates and to encourage students to vote. political career is over. The Democratic Party is “be coming more diverse, with more opportunities for more different kinds of people,” he said. “And now that I have a little distance from all that, I want you to know that’s why I flew overnight to Hawaii and then flew back overnight to Oregon, and why when this election is over I will have done over 100 events for the members of our party in this election season.” But Clinton didn’t just praise his own party. The former president launched Turn to Votes, page 12A Art Alexakis of Everclear performs at the Democratic rally. Funding woes hit student group The planners of China Night are facing money problems because student incidental fees do not cover purchases made overseas Jennifer Bear Campus/City Culture Reporter Being short on cash is a common problem among many college students, but for one student group at the Univer sity, that issue is even more severe. The Chinese Taiwanese Student Asso ciation is having money troubles plan ning for China Night, its main event of the school year. CTSA could save thou sands of dollars when buying materials for the January event. But a University policy prohibits student groups from us ing student incidental fee money to pur chase items overseas. Vitus Leung, co-director of the Hong Kong Student Association, said many student groups have trouble getting items from foreign countries. He added that relying on local cultural resources is far from perfect. For Hong Kong Night, Leung said a travel associa tion donated cultural materials, but the items were more like souvenirs than au thentic cultural items. “It’s really tough to find traditional Chinese cultural items in the local com munity,” Leung said. Katie McGraw, an ASUO program con troller, said purchasing overseas items is not permitted because it would cause too many complications. To spend fee money, student groups must first get authorization for purchases from their controller, write a purchase order to a vendor and provide an itemized receipt or invoice detailing what their purchases were. Buying items from overseas would further complicate this process because of exchange rates and dif ferent languages. “It’s hard enough getting vendors paid that are down the street,” McGraw said. Buying items from overseas “complicates things so much that we try to divert our groups from doing that.” CTSA President Vickee Liang said China Night drains most of the group’s fi nances. CTSA is planning a larger and Turn to Funding, page 12A Weather Today: High 55, Low 22, sunny and breezy Saturday: High 55, Low 25, nothing but sun Looking aheap Monday One campus intersection raises safety concerns Tuesday The Emerald's 'American Idol' Dia de los Muertos inspires honor, joy The Mexican holiday celebrates deceased friends and relatives returning to the earth after death Jennifer Bear Campus/City Culture Reporter In many societies, death is viewed as a source of mystery and fear. In Mexican culture, however, death is ac cepted as a part of life and celebrated in a festival honoring the deceased— “Dia de los Muertos,” or the Day of the Dead. This year MEChA is commem orating the group’s 21st anniversary of publicly celebrating the festival. Rodrigo Moreno, a MEChA mem ber and political science major, said Day of the Dead is a day to remem ber lost loved ones. “As opposed to the European way of regarding death, the Mexican tra dition is not a mournful occasion,” Moreno said. “It is respectful and can sometimes be joyful.” The event is free and will take plaee Saturday at 7 p.m. in the EMU Fir Room. The celebration will feature poetry, music, refreshments and a traditional Mexican “ofrenda.” Isaac Torres, program director of MEChA, described the ofrenda ajs important part of the heritage of Dia de los Muertos. “The ofrenda is an altar that is built to honor deceased family members,” Torres said. “It’s filled with flowers, pictures of the dead, food and the things dead relatives would have liked.” “La Muerte Nina,” or The Young Death, is the theme for this year’s celebration. Torres said MEChA will focus on honoring deceased chil dren by adding toys and candies to the ofrenda exhibition. The highlight of the celebration tye g display of t^gditiopal Mexi can photographs taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pictures are of families and their dead children, known as “angeli tos,” or little angels. Armando Morales, a Spanish teacher at Oak Hill School, said the practice of taking pictures with angeli tos was very popular in Mexico when photography was first invented. Par ents of deceased children would dress them in their finest clothes and take pictures — which added to the an cient Mexican tradition, “cult of the Turn to Celebration, page 4A
