UO will spearhead fine arts program
The University of Oregon
Museum of Art is set
to help reinforce local arts
programs in K-l 2 schools
Jillian Daley
Family/Health/Education Reporter
The University of California at
Irvine chose the University to be the
first school in Oregon to pilot Arts
Bridge America, a national program
dedicated to providing a fine arts ed
ucation for K-l2 schools without art
facilities or sufficient funding.
University of Oregon Museum of
Art officials said UC Irvine, where
the program started, provided the
University with funding because
UOMA had already established pro
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Seminar to advise
on scholastic savings
The Oregon 529 College Savings
Plan will host a free seminar Satur
day at the Hilton Eugene from 9
a.m. to 10 a.m. to advise the public
of the benefits of early planning
and to remind families of upcoming
deadlines.
By investing before the end of the
year, Oregon taxpayers can take up
to a #2,000 deduction from their
2002 taxable income. The seminar
r
grams similar to Arts Bridge.
The National Endowment for the
Arts recently granted #30,000 to the
University and the Lane Arts Coun
cil for Art Access — a program simi
lar to Arts Bridge — that sends
UOMA staff and trained volunteers
to speak and teach at local public
schools.
For Arts Bridge, the UOMA staff
trains undergraduate and graduate
students for a term in public speak
ing, classroom management and ar
eas of the museum’s collection be
fore teaching at K-12 schools in the
Eugene-Springfield area.
“Since I’m in the arts administra
tion program, I’m interested not only
in art, but how to bring art to other
people, so this is the ultimate part
nership of those two things,” second
year arts administration graduate
student Jennifer Galame said.
Galame said students who receive
the instruction also benefit.
“I think that it can change any
student’s life,” she said. “Art’s been
shown to help other disciplines
like language arts, mathematics
and science.”
However, teaching is not the only
function of the Arts Bridge program.
“The idea is that the students we
select are not necessarily going to
teach, but it’s a way of giving back to
the community, regardless of what
they plan to do (as a career),” Uni
versity Arts Bridge director Lisa
Abia-Smith said.
If the program is successful, it may
will also explain some new changes
at the state and federal level that
make it easier for families to partici
pate in the savings plan.
More information about the plan
can be found at www.OregonCol
legeSavings.com or by calling 1-866
772-8464.
— Brad Schmidt
EWEB expects
level 2003 rates
Electric and water rates won’t
increase — or at least shouldn’t
increase — for consumers during
2003.
The Eugene Water & Electric
Board announced its ,8257 million
2003 operating budget Tuesday, a
plan that doesn’t include any rate in
creases for the company’s approxi
mately 80,000 customers.
But if Bonneville Power Adminis
tration, from which EWEB buys
about 70 percent of its power supply,
raises its rates, customers could see
increased costs.
Last year, Bonneville raised its
wholesale rates by 46 percent.
EWEB then raised customer rates by
an average of 33 percent.
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University, beginning fall 2003.
So far, Abia-Smith said Arts Bridge
has managed to subsist on a small
budget of UOMA funds. A Depart
ment of Health and Human Services
bill, she said, could delegate $1.5
million dollars to fund the arts na
tionwide — however, only if Con
gress passes it next year. UOMA will
receive $100,000 for the Arts Bridge
program in fall 2003 if Congress ap
proves the initiative.
Even with this year’s limited fund
ing, UOMA has been able to help
public schools that have small arts
budgets or no arts programs at all.
“With the budget cuts in educa
tion, quite often art gets cut, so this
is the way of bringing arts into the
classroom,” UOMA public relations
and marketing coordinator Katie
Sproles said. “Basically, I feel the
Museum of Art is helping to fill a void
in funding.”
Sproles said that the program is
helpful not only because schools get
assistance, but because students also
receive professional experience.
Three schools, O’Hara Catholic
School, Edison Elementary School
and Fox Hollow Elementary School,
are currently involved in the new
program. Sproles said that the muse
um hopes to expand the program to
10 Lane County schools next year.
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perspectives on the meaning
ofHanukkah
“Latkes, candles and primarily
presents,” freshman Josh Erde
Wollheim said. “Hanukkah is basi
cally something we commercialized
to combat Christmas so Jewish kids
wouldn’t be left out.”
Junior Ariel Ungerleider said
Hanukkah means spending time
with her family. Ungerleider said
she wishes people would recog
nize Hanukkah like they recog
nize Christmas.
“Most of the people who celebrate
Christmas aren’t even Christian ...
they celebrate it because it’s the
American thing to do,” she said.
Jews started celebrating
Hanukkah after they defeated the
Greek king Antiochus Epiphanes,
who had forbidden the Jews to
practice their religion. The Jewish
army known as the Maccabees tri
umphed over the Greeks in 165
B.C.E., and on the 25th day of
Kislev reclaimed their Temple.
When the Jews wanted to rededi
cate the Temple, they could find
only one bottle of oil, which would
normally last a single night, to light
the menorah used in the Temple
service. Miraculously, the oil lasted
eight nights.
Jews commemorate this miracle
by lighting a menorah during the
week of Hanukkah. Each sundown,
a candle is lit until the eighth night,
when the whole menorah is lit.
There is a ninth candle on a meno
rah called the Shamesh that is used
to light the other candles.
The Jewish community has
planned many events for the holiday,
including a Hanukkah candle light
ing celebration that started Monday
and ends tomorrow at the Hillel
House, located at 1059 Hilyard St.
The Hillel House will host a
“Hanukkah and Rosh Ghodesh Par
ty for Jewish Women” at 6 p.m. to
day. Women will be meeting at this
time in front of the Hillel House to
carpool to the event.
On Friday, Hillel House and the
Ghabad of Eugene, located at
1307 E. 19th Ave., are hosting stu
dent Hanukkah Shabbat services
at 6 p.m., with food afterward.
The Ghabad of Eugene is request
ing an RSVP; call 484-7665 for
more information.
On Saturday, the Eugene Middle
East Peace Group is sponsoring a
Festival of Light and Renewal at the
Lane Community College main
campus cafeteria from 5 p.m. to 9
p.m. The event will celebrate the
Muslim holiday Eid el Fitr as well as
Hanukkah, and is requesting dona
tions of $5 to $25.
Alison Shaughnessy is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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(Left to right) Rabbi Mordechai Horovitz, David Helfand, Rabbi Yitz Husbands
Hankins, Alfredo Cormezano, Justin Osher, Jonathan Seidel and Rabbi Asi
Spiegel participate in a menorah lighting ceremony on Tuesday night in
celebration of the fifth day of Hanukkah at Agate Hall.
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