News brief
VSA culture night
features dinner, show
The Vietnamese Student Associa
tion will host its annual culture night
Sunday in the EMU Ballroom. “Pro
ject Vn,” the name of this year’s
event, will feature a traditional din
ner, skits, dances and a fashion show.
The theme is “In each of us there is a
cultural blueprint.”
The menu includes crab and white
asparagus soup, mixed herb chicken
salad and tamarind vinaigrette and
rice dumplings wrapped in banana
leaf. Also, rice cakes with mung bean
and fried shallots and scallion oil,
chicken skewers marinated in
caramelized fish sauce, coconut-gin
ger brule and tofu dumplings in lemon
grass broth will be served.
Skits will be based on Vietnamese
folklore and the process people
have gone through to obtain resi
dency in Vietnam. An “Ao Dai”
fashion show featuring traditional
Vietnamese clothing will be held at
the end of the program. There will
also be a raffle for a DVD player and
several gift certificates.
“We feel that each person has some
thing to contribute to the community
they are in,” VSA Director Phuc
Nguyen said. “They make up a crucial
part of that culture, a piece of the puz
zle or blueprint, so to speak.”
Doors open at 5 p.m. and dinner
will be served at 5:45 p.m. The enter
tainment will begin at 6:30 p.m. Ad
mission is free, but there is a suggest
ed $5 donation.
Roman Gokhman
Assembly
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supports the resolution against war
— the challenge will be getting the
quorum of eligible voters.
“If we have a quorum, we believe we
have a good chance of passing the res
olution,” he said. “The reason that we
know a quorum is going to be called is
the calling of a quorum is an attempt
to undermine our efforts at this time.”
Campus members of Students for
Peace also plan to attend the meeting
and lend their support with a petition
signed by more than 5,000 to 6,000
University students. Students for
Peace member Beth Ayres said if the
assembly votes in favor of the resolu
tion, it will send a message to other
universities, creating a domino effect.
“A university does have clout on
something like this,” she said. “If we
can get every university in the coun
try to pass this, it’s heard.”
But not every assembly member
supports the resolution. Linguistics
and cognitive science Professor Emer
itus Tom Giv6n said while he person
ally would join anti-war marchers on
the street, “hiding behind mama’s
skirt” — meaning the University — is
a cowardly and dishonest way to voice
a political opinion.
“I’m sick and tired of seeing the
University politicized, the faculty
politicized and the curriculum
swayed by political opinion.”
Giv6n said every time faculty mem
bers make political statements, they
are “biting the hand that feeds them”
and isolating themselves from the
community they pretend to repre
sent. He added that just because Ore
gon State University’s Faculty Senate
passed an anti-war resolution in De
cember is not a good enough reason
for the University to do the same.
“The fact that someone else
jumped off a cliff is not a very good
precedent for us jumping off the
same cliff,” he said.
Contact the news editor
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
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