Saturday
Bryce Peltier, trombone (master's recital),
1 p.m., Beall Hall, free.
Laura Woodruff, clarinet (junior recital), 1
p.m., 198 Music, free.
"Music of John Cage" (Keith Kirchoff and
Dan Flanagan, optional recital), 5:30 p.m.,
198 Music, free.
Alice Blankenship, violin (doctoral lec
ture-recital), 8:15 p.m., Beall Hall, free.
Sunday
"The University Symphony" (University
Campus buzz
Ensemble Concert, directed by Wayne
Bennett), 3 p.m., Beall Hall, $5 general, $3
students and senior citizens, 346-5678.
"Spring Collection Fashion Show" (spon
sored by APASU), 6-8 p.m., EMU Fir Room.
Monday
"Agricultural Genetic Engineering: Tech
nological Panacea or Failure?" (environ
mental studies lecture: activist Mark Des
Marets, Northwest Resistance Against
Genetic Engineering), 4-5 p.m., 16 Pacific,
346-5081.
Marisol Jimenez, composer (senior
recital), 6 p.m., Beall Hall, free.
"War and Labor: Some Lessons from
the Twentieth Century" (labor history
lecture), 7 p.m., 100 Willamette, 346-5054.
Kelly Shannon, Daniel Kalapsa, Reese
Lawhon, Kristy Lombard, Martha Wager,
Wei-Ling Huang, Yuwen Yao (gallery), 7
p.m., Laverne Krause Gallery, Lawrence
Hall, 346-3618.
Dylan Dwyer, saxophone (senior recital),
8:15 p.m., Beall Hall, free.
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much more passionate about it —
they actually cared.”
However, not every student was
jumping for joy at the close of the
general election Wednesday.
Senior Bret Jacobson said the re
sults of the election are unfortunate
because the Melton/Morales ticket
focused solely on students groups
and the demographic that the Exec
utive candidates fit into, and not on
individual ideas for improving stu
dent government.
“I think it’s unfortunate that a
campaign run entirely on identity
politics once again won at the Uni
versity,” he said. “It hardly serves
all students’ needs for student lead
ers to focus on the differences in
personal lives of students as op
posed to the collective educational
needs of students.”
Although some members of the
University community are sure that
voter apathy continues to plague
the election process, ASUO Elec
tions Coordinator Andrea Hall said
she is happy with the turnout.
“We’re really excited about im
proving the voter turnout in the
general election,” she said. “I think
that the election went well. ”
Overall, 2,474 students, or 14.3
percent of the student population,
voted in the general election, an in
crease from last year’s unexpectedly
high turnout, she said.
Hall said she credits some of the
increase to the close race between
the Executive candidates, as well
as the high number of candidates
in general. The candidates’ fren
zied campaign efforts to attract the
attention of the campus communi
ty might have also pumped demo
cratic life into student voters’
veins, Hall said.
Senior Jobetta Hedelman, who
votes every year, said she prefers to
r
Do students know their ASUO?
In an unscientific sampling of SO students taken Thursday,
the Emerald asked how many knew that “ASUO” stands for
Associated Students of the University of Oregon , The answers?
■ ^6 correctly identified their student government
“I work for ASUO — that’s the only
reason I know the answer.”
■ 24 could not
“Isn't It the Australian Student
Union Organization?”
get her information by talking to the
candidates about their stances on is
sues and their platforms.
“If they’re not out there cam
paigning, it’s really hard to know
why you should vote for them,”
she said.
Senior Nicole Johnson said stu
dents have enough opportunities to
get information about candidates,
but the message to vote doesn’t al
ways get through.
“I think it’s hard to get across how
important the elections are,” she
said. “They affect us all, ultimately.”
This year’s election included ex
tra debates between the candidates
to provide students with more op
portunities to understand where
each candidate was coming from,
but Hall said there wasn’t a high
turnout at the debates.
As for the majority of students
who did not vote, the reasons for
their apathy are plentiful.
“I think that there are way more
important issues for people to fo
cus their time on,” senior Pete
Henkle said.
He added that issues such as the
current war in Iraq are more impor
tant than the “powerless” student
government.
Some students don’t believe the
results of elections will have an im
pact on them. Junior Dan Barr said
he has yet to notice an impact on
his life caused by the functions of
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student government.
“It doesn’t seem like they can re
ally do anything,” he said.
Barr added that much of the in
formation he saw about the elec
tions concerned the “tedious de
bate” about the appropriate rules of
campaigning.
“I think (elections) are more im
portant for the kids who want to get
into polities,” he said.
Chelsea Duncan is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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