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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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