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The theme for Saturday's 28th annual Hawaii Club Luau is "The Stories of Our Past." The evening includes dinner and dancing,
followed by a concert with Three Plus, a popular Hawaiian reggae band.
The hula story
The annual Hawaii Club Luau combines food,
dance and stories to bring Hawaiian culture
to the University at McArthur Court on Saturday
Roman Gokhman
Campus/City Culture Reporter
The swaying of the arms from left to right and the hips from
side to side in hula dancing has a particular story to tell.
Hula dancers from the University Hawaii Club will pres
ent several of those stories at the club’s 28th annual Hawaii
Club Luau on Saturday at McArthur Court. The event’s
theme, “The Stories of Our Past,” is meant to show the im
portance of family, acceptance and love in Hawaii’s culture.
The luau includes a buffet dinner featuring traditional
foods such as Kalua pig, which is traditionally roasted in a
hole dug in the ground and lined with banana leaves; poi, a
starch pounded from taro root until it is a cream; haupia, a
coconut gelatin dessert; and teriyaki chicken with pineap
ple. The dinner will feature singing and music, which will be
followed by the hula show and a concert with Three Plus, a
popular Hawaiian reggae band.
“The whole show centers around telling the stories and
what they mean to Hawaiian people,” hula dance choreog
rapher Jennifer Ghee said. “It’s putting the stories to dance.”
One of the dances will tell the story of volcano goddess
Pele, and how she fought and killed her sister because of a
man they both loved. Other stories are about mermaids and
the adventures of ships at sea.
Ghee said the dancers have been practicing for the event
since January, and that the club expects students from other
northwest universities to attend.
“It brings a very valuable culture to the University,” she said.
Turn to Luau, page4
SEVIS issues
new deadline
to file visas
The University will host two sessions where
international students can enter their data into the
SEVIS system and receive new immigration forms
Ayisha Yahya
Freelance Editor
With new visa regulations in place since the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks, all international students and scholars,
and their dependents, must have their data entered into the
Student & Exchange Visitor Information System by Aug. 1. This
new electronic system, which includes students’ personal and
educational information, allows the Bureau of Citizenship and
Immigration Services — previously the Immigration and Natu
ralization Service — to monitor students’ and visiting scholars’
movements in and out of the country.
To get an early start, the University’s Office of
International Programs will have two sessions on Monday
and Thursday to get current students into the system and
issue them new paperwork. The sessions are from 9 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. in the EMU Walnut Room on Monday and in
the Gumwood Room on Thursday.
While August is still some time away, OIP Director
Turn to SEVIS, page 4
Students report
mix of opinions
about elections
Some people celebrated Maddy and Eddy’s victory;
while others felt “identity politics” took over the
election; voter apathy was also cause for concern,
but this year’s voter turnout surpassed last year’s
Chelsea Duncan
Freelance Reporter
The 2003-04 ASUO elections have come to a close, and even
some students who couldn’t care less about them are satisfied
with the results.
“I don’t see how it would be better or worse either way,” jun
ior Ellen Buller said, in regards to the results. “I’m just glad
Maddy (Melton) and Eddy (Morales) won because they were
Turn to Election, page 3
OSPIRG confers about new report on Bush policies
Speakers discussed the Bush
administration’s proposed
changes to the Clean Water Act
and logging in national forests
Ali Shaughnessy
Environment/Science/Technology Reporter
A new report titled “Behind Closed
Doors” was released Tuesday in a series
of nationwide press conferences organ
ized by the U.S. Public Interest Re
search Group and its affiliates. At the
University, OSPIRG organizers held
their conference beneath the solar pan
els outside the EMU.
Campus Coordinator Kit Douglass said
the report was distributed in hopes of
raising public awareness about the possi
ble local impacts of the Bush administra
tion’s environmental policies.
“Since the 2002 elections, the Bush
administration has worked behind closed
doors with polluters to craft one proposal
after another to weaken environmental
and public health issues,” Douglass said.
“This Earth Day, we call on the Bush ad
ministration to listen to the public, not
the polluters, and to uphold, not uproot,
America’s environmental laws.”
The report is split into various sec
tions that focus on issues from global
warming to logging in national forests to
oil consumption.
An example Douglass presented from
the report was the Bush administra
tion’s proposed changes to the Glean
Water Act in January that would elimi
nate protection for smaller streams and
wetlands across Oregon, and could al
low more pollution to enter the state’s
waterways. Douglass added that more
than 1,000 rivers and streams in Ore
gon already fail to meet the Glean Wa
ter Act’s minimum standards.
John Baldwin, a planning, public poli
cy and management associate professor,
was one of the speakers at the press con
ference who talked about political in
volvement in environmental issues, as
well as the need for concern.
“We should all be concerned about the I
future of our grandchildren,” he said. “I
would call upon Republicans to reverse |
the rollbacks that have been happening.”
Environmental Protection Agency re
gional spokesman Bill Dunbar said he
would not comment on the Bush admin
istration’s policies, but did say that the
rollbacks have not yet affected the EPA.
The EPA is responsible for enforcing en
vironmental policy.
Doug Heiken, a member of the Ore
gon Natural Resource Council and the
other speaker, talked about logging in
national forests. He said that during
past presidential administrations, envi
ronmental policies moved in a positive
Turn to OSPIRG, page 8
Doug Heiken
of the Oregon
Natural
Resource
Council spoke
about logging
in national
forests at
OSPIRG's
press
conference
Tuesday at the
EMU.
Caleb Fung for
the Emerald
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