Hong Kong
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“The theme this year is Hong
Kong Media — channel Hong
Kong,” Hong Kong Students Associ
ation co-Director Vitus Leung said.
“It's up to date ... a more casual and
informal way to bring information
to people.”
Leung said the food preparation
went more smoothly this year than
in the past, because HKSA members
chose dishes that were easy to pre
pare. He added that last year they
had to get certain ingredients sent
from Hong Kong.
HKSA member and sophomore
Macy Chan said the theme also helped
show differences between Hong Kong
and Chinese cultures.
“I hope it shows the influence of
Western and Eastern culture
because Hong Kong people are dif
ferent from Chinese,” Chan said.
(Left) David Ng readies himself to fight
Preston Lam in a kung fu
demonstration during Hong Kong
Night
(Below) HKSA member Grace Cheung
watches fellow HKSA member Carol
Chan demonstrate proper form while
preparing Chinese dumplings during
the "Carol Can Cook" segment.
Mark McCambridge Emerald
“Hong Kong is a Chinese culture,
but with a strong Western influ
ence.”
However, not all of the event’s
participants were from Hong Kong.
“There are about 20 performers
this year ... some from Taiwan, Ko
rea and other countries,” HKSA co
Director Gary Lau said. Lau, a soph
omore, said he hoped the evening
would educate students and com
munity members.
“Hopefully, we can perform
some skits onstage that will in
form,” he said.
The evening’s performances,
which represented TV shows in
Hong Kong, played out on the set of a
giant TV screen. Junior Jane Law
played a little girl watching TV in the
show.
“We hope we can tell everyone
what Hong Kong is like and show its
history,” Law said.
Performances included a travel
show, Chinese Jeopardy and news,
history and cooking programs. TV
“shows” were linked together by
commercials also presenting as
pects of Hong Kong culture, such
as the influence of kung fu and
Chinese celebrities including
Bruce Lee.
“Each show tries to show you a
little part of Hong Kong,” Chan said.
HKSA member Stephen Keung
said that the news segment was par
ticularly important because of the
recent SARS outbreak.
“We have to tell people that it’s
very serious — but we will keep work
ing hard to control it,” said Keung.
University student Kozue Tsuchida
said she came to the event to learn.
“I’m from Japan, so I don’t know
much about Hong Kong other than
movies,” Tsuchida said. “It’s im
portant to see things from differ
ent cultures.”
Sophomore Karla Schack said
that while diversity was the main
reason to attend, the event’s food
was also an incentive.
“The food was definitely good,”
Schack said.
Freshman Cat McGuan had simi
lar sentiments, but felt “appreciat
ing other cultures” was also an im
portant reason to come.
Kara Hansen is a freelance reporter.
Emerald receives
top journalism
honors
The Oregon Daily Emer
ald was named the best stu
dent newspaper in the state
on Friday at the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers Asso
ciation’s 2003 Collegiate
Newspaper Contest.
After losing top honors in
2001 and 2002 to Oregon
State University’s paper, The
Daily Barometer, Emerald
management was excited to
reclaim the first place award
for General Excellence.
“We worked very hard to
put out a quality product this
year, in terms of breadth of
coverage as well as day-to-day
consistency,” editor in chief
Michael J. Kleckner said,
“and it was great to see that
effort validated by the state’s
professional journalists.”
The contest’s judges
awarded a total of 134 first
place, second place and
honorable mention awards
to 14 of the state’s college
newspapers at the ceremo
ny, which took place at the
OSU campus. The Emerald
received 22 of those
awards, eight of which were
first place honors.
In addition to the Gener
al Excellence win, the paper
took the top award in nu
merous writing categories
— and the Emerald’s writ
ers swept the Best News
Story, Best Editorial and
Best Feature Story cate
gories.
Editor in chief-elect Brad
Schmidt, who will take over
the paper on June 10 for the
2003-04 school year, said
student journalists deserve
the credit.
“The dedication of the staff
and the commitment to
strong journalism were re
warded,” he said. “I’m proud
of the staff, and I hope to see
quality work like this contin
ue in the future.”
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