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DIRECTORS IS ACCEPTING STUDENT
APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2003-2004 BOARD.
This is a great opportunity for you to:
■ develop outstanding leadership skills
■ represent the interests of 20,000
incidental fee paying students
■ learn budgeting skills and create the
6+ million dollar EMU budget
■ advise staff in the day-to-day operation
of EMU
■ create and approve long range plans
for the student union
■ work with other outstanding student
leaders
• make a lasting difference at the UO
requirements:
At least two term's experience with either
an ASUO program
or an EMU program or service
stipend: $100.00 per month
Application deadline:
May 15th at 4pm
Pick up application at EMU
Administration Office
Position begins May 26th
The EMU Board complies fully with the provisions of the following
University of Oregon statement: “An equal opportunity institution
committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the American
Disabilities Act."
“ A Fierce Brightness:
Twenty-Five Years of Women’s Poetry ”
University of Oregon Bookstore
Thursday, May 15 • 7 p.m. • Free
Janice Gould, Donna Henderson, and Ingrid Wendt
will share their works from this anniversary collection
of “Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
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APASU
continued from page 1
Who says we all look alike?” a dis
cussion and lecture on the develop
ment of common misconceptions.
Oregon State University Assis
tant Professor and discussion
speaker Janet Nishihara said many
people assume Asian stereotypes
— such as being good at math —
are universally true.
“It’s dangerous to say that a group
of people — a quarter the world’s
population — are all the same,”
Nishihara said. “It’s harmful to
Asian Americans, and it’s harmful to
American society.”
Padoongpatt said the group’s
events are aimed at educating the
greater community so that they will
see Asian Americans for who they
are, nof the way the media have
portrayed them.
“The workshops mostly consist of
Asian Americans, but we would like
more of the community to become
involved,” he said. “I don’t think
they’ve responded enough.”
APASU spokesman Jason Cum
mings said it’s challenging to reach
out to the larger, non-Asian Amer
ican community. But the bigger
problem, according to Cummings,
is that despite many international
group activities, the University
is homogenous.
“This is not a very diverse school,
both in numbers and culturally,” he
said. “Sometimes I feel that non
Asian Americans or non-ethnic
communities go to certain events
and feel they are contributing (to di
versity on campus).”
Cummings said he hopes all stu
dents and faculty members partici
pate in the group’s activities for the
rest of the month. Admission to the
Main Event, workshops and the film
series, which is held Tuesdays at 7
p.m. in 240A McKenzie, is free.
Oregon State University also has
planned events for Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month, includ
ing speaker Esera Tuaolo, a former
OSU football player who went on to
a nine-year professional career in
the National Football League. Tuao
lo will talk about his experiences as
a Pacific Islander and an out gay
NFL veteran at 7:30 p.m. May 14 in
the Valley Football Center. The
event is free and open to the public;
for more information, call (541)
737-9033.
Contact the reporter
atromangokhman@dailyemerald.com.
APASU Heritage
Month Events
May 14
Wushu Demonstration by
the University Wushu Club
(workshop), 5 p.m., EMU
Fir Room
May 17
"Main Event” 18 Mighty
Mountain Warriors, a San
Francisco-based sketch
comedy group that will
deconstruct ethnic
stereotypes with MB artists
Soul Essence opening, 6:30
8:30 p.m., EMU Ballroom
May 20
“Yellow” {part of a film series),
7 p.m., 240A McKenzie
May 21 -" . ; ,
"APA Stereotypes: Who says
we all look alike?” discussion
and lecture, 5 p.m., EMU Fir
Room
' May271
“Miss India Georgia” (part of
a film series), 7 p.m., 240A
McKenzie
SOURCE: APASU
Bombers
continued from page 1
At the residential compound of
Vinnell Corp., a U.S. firm, the at
tackers came in two vehicles Mon
day night, shooting guards in an
armored personnel carrier, killing
one. In less than a minute, they
overwhelmed a guard station,
where bullet holes still pocked the
glass 17 hours later.
Apparently knowing where it was,
they flipped a switch and opened
the main gate. The larger of the ve
hicles, a Dodge Ram truck packed
with an estimated 400 pounds of
plastic explosives, sped several hun
dred yards to the bachelors’ quar
ters and detonated, said a U.S. Army
general serving in Saudi Arabia.
The explosion, at 11:25 p.m. local
time Monday, was positioned for
maximum impact. It sheared away
much of the four-story building, im
ploded the roofs of nearby buildings
and decapitated a nearby palm tree.
Other vehicles, apparently driven
by suicide bombers using the same
tactics, exploded at two more
Riyadh compounds housing Saudis
and foreigners at 11:20 p.m. and
11:22 p.m., said the general, speak
ing on condition of anonymity.
“It was a sophisticated near-si
multaneous attack,” he said.
The suicide bombers, believed to
be Islamic fundamentalists linked to
al-Qaida, chose targets designed to
damage the U.S. presence in the
kingdom and punish Saudis who
work with foreigners.
The attacks also were a major
new threat to the monarchy that
rules the oil-rich kingdom. The
monarchy, whose oil is a pillar of the
U.S. economy, already has been be
set by popular discontent. The lead
ership is aging and uncertain. Un
employment is steep, and average
incomes have declined sharply.
While the bombing apparently
was intended to weaken the Saudi
regime, it could embolden the nor
mally cautious princes to crack
down harder on Muslim extremists
after years of tolerating and even
financing them.
In an unusual address to his na
tion, Grown Prince Abdullah de
r
dared the terrorist attacks un-Islam
ic. “The perpetrators are but a small
group of deviants whose objective is
to do harm to our society by doing
damage to its security,” he said.
Citing passages from the Quran
that prohibit killing of innocents,
Abdullah said, “We specifically warn
anyone who tries to justify these
crimes in the name of religion.”
President George W. Bush, speak
ing in Indianapolis, said, ’’These
despicable acts were committed by
killers whose only faith is hate.
“The United States will find the
killers, and they will learn the
meaning of American justice. ”
Virtually all of the U.S. casualties
were at Vinnell, where at least seven
Americans and‘two Filipinos were
killed, and many others injured.
The defense contractor, with
800 workers in Saudi Arabia, helps
the U.S. military train the Saudi
national guard.
“It certainly has all the finger
prints of an al-Qaida operation,”
Secretary of State Colin Powell said
after a 15-minute visit to the rubble
strewn compound. For security rea
sons, the compound was built well
away from the center of Riyadh, a
city of 4.5 million people.
“This is criminality, terrorism at
its worst,” said Powell, who inspect
ed a 10-foot deep crater left by the
explosion.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services. Knight Ridder
Newspapers correspondent Ron
Hutcheson contributed to this report
from Indianapolis.
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