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Broadway 686-1166 South Campus 2870 E.Willametta 686-1600 //y __ STUDENT ID SPECIALS • Show Your Student ID • Order by Number X-LARGE 1-TOPPING SORq The Big New Yorker U MEDIUM 3-TOPPING Pan, Thin ’N Crispy or Hand Tossed STICKS N WINGS 10 Breadsticks, 12 Wings X-LARGE 3-TDPPIMG The Big New Yorker e MEDIUM l-TOPPIMGS Pan, Thin ’N Crispy or Hand Tossed STICKS N WINGS 10 Breadsticks, 24 Wings .8099 .$099 $1199 $1199 $1199 FREE 2-Liter of Soda with Any Above Order! Delivery charges may apply Occasion aims to unite minorities I Weaving New Beginnings celebrates diversity and provides the opportunity to meet fellow minorities i --—__ By Jared Paben News Reporter For members of minority commu nities on campus, tonight's ninth an nual Weaving New Beginnings cele bration is going to be like "a big welcoming party," said Kimi Mojica, director of diversity education and support for the Office of Student Life. '"Ihat's why it's Weaving New Begin nings because we want faculty, staff and students to get hooked up in this com munity fast," she said. "That doesn't mean you're all going to be best friends, or you're all going to get this cosmic connection with people; but the fact is that you can be in a place where there isn't the pressure of a classroom or so cial pressures. The only thing is to meet people and have a good night." Weaving New' Beginnings will start at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the LMU Ballroom. Lyllye Parker, program coordinator for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said the celebration is primarily geared toward new minority students at the University, such as freshmen and transfer students. It offers them the op portunity to meet fellow minority stu dents and professors and feel connect ed, but faculty and staff also benefit from the celebration as well. "It's an opportunity for us profes sionals to see each other," she said. "You kind of get locked into your little cubicle in your department and come and go without anybody knowing that you're here." Parker added that the event also gives instructors the chance to interact with students in a less formal situation. Event organizers said they don't want people to think that Weaving New Beginnings is only about provid ing refuge for minorities. 'This celebration isn't to tell people This place is a really hard place to be,"' Mojica said. "We want the celebration to tell people that people are here and they're going to be here and there's more people coming, so enjoy it and take pan in it." To facilitate the process of network ing and socializing, Mojica developed the "black books." The black books, which debuted last year, are son of like a treasure hunt for people. One page says to find "someone who has had 'In and Out' or 'Krispy Kremes,"' and below that is a space for the person's name, year or major and their signature. The event always has some form of entertainment as well. Previous years have featured speakers, awards cere monies and presentations from stu dent groups. This year, event organiz ers are planning to make it more of an "intimate club atmosphere, trans forming the ballroom to a city club at mosphere," Mojica said. University President Dave Frohnmayer is sched uled to speak, and KWVA 88.1 FM has volunteered to arrange the music. Free food will also be available. While the event is primarily for minorities, everyone who is support ive of their cause is invited to attend, Mojica said. She added that they expect a large turnout at this year's event. In past years the event has drawn anywhere from 200 to 400 people. Last year's celebration took place in the winter and coincided with multiple campus events but still drew 250 people. "Last year people were here 'till about 10:30 p.m.," Mojica said. "We had to tell them OK, we re going to clean everything up now.'" Contact the people/culture/faith reporter at jaredpaben@dailyemerald.com. DPS continued from page 1 "They didn't seem like they liked stu dents, but 1 don't think that holds true for all of them." I le added that there were some of ficers who were very kind. DPS Operations Lieutenant Herb Horner said most of his relations with students have been positive, adding that students' reactions to DPS may depend on the nature of DPS-student interaction. "It depends on the time of the day and how much they've had to drink or smoke or whether they're sober," he said, adding that he knows the officers are not always popular. Homer said he feels the Bonertz in cident will not permanently affect DPS' image because every department has "personnel issues." Despite the varying opinions on how students feel about DPS, some students have ideas about how to im prove the department's relationship with campus. Florendo said meetings between of ficers and the student body might help to revamp the DPS image adding that officers should be more personable and not act superior to students. Kimes said she thinks a lot of DPS services are unclear to students, and people place emphasis on the negative aspects of the department. She said if there was more focus on the positive services that the department offers, it might improve the relationship be tween officers and the student body. Some of the current concerns about the DPS-student relationship will be discussed at ASUO's annual Public Safety forum on Oct. 30, Tarvin said. She added that DPS offi cers' ability to issue citations, which was authorized in the summer, may be another potential source of ten sion between students and officers. "This is something of concern be cause we students should not have to feel threatened within our own space, "she said. Homer said DPS is trying to have more officers patrol on bicycles, hop ing that this will make it easier for stu dents to interact with them. "Just being out there and ap proachable," he said. "I'm hoping that it will give students a more re laxed feeling about approaching our officers. They don't bite." Contact the news editor at ayishayahya@dailyemerald.com. CAMPUS Wednesday Freeman lecture by Wang Gungwu, director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, 3 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room, free. For more information, visit http://www.uoregon edu/~caps or call 346-1521. LSAT GMAT GRE MCAT DAT NCLEX-RN* Exam* Take a FREE practice test with Kaplan ...and find out how you’ll score before test day! Take a free GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT or DAT practice test at the University of Oregon! 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