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Alpha Kappa Alpha hosts
black heritage fashion show
The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is
hosting a free black heritage fashion
show in the EMU Ballroom on Sun
day showcasing black culture's con
tribution to fashion in states across
the nation.
The 11th Annual Alpha Kappa Al
pha Black Heritage Fashion Show's
theme will be "City, Sounds & Style"
and will explore the impacts of black
culture in cities such as New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, De
troit, St. Louis and Washington D.C.,
said Alpha Kappa Alpha member
Natasha Holstine.
"It's a way to bring more knowl
edge to the school and city," Holstine
said. "It's about sharing knowledge
and doing it in a fun way."
Holstine said sports, wedding, hip
hop, traditional African, business, pa
jama and club scene attire will be
showcased. There will also be dancing
and musical presentations as part of
the entertainment.
The event is co-sponsored by the
Black Student Union.
"This is an event that we do every
year and they assist with it financial
ly," Holstine said.
The event starts at 6:08 p.m. be
cause the sorority's national organiza
tion was founded in 1908. Every year,
the show starts eight minutes after the
hour, Holstine said.
— Jared Paben
ASUO Student Senate
realigns academic seats
The ASUO Constitution Court ap
proved a plan last week — which
had long been in the works — to re
align the academic seats of the ASUO
Student Senate. Senators said the
plan was an improvement over the
current alignment.
"I think it gives a better representa
tion," Sen. Kevin Day said.
The nine academic seats, which
comprise half of the senate, are re
quired to represent academic con
stituencies of roughly equal size. Each
academic senator represents students
in a specific major.
The ASUO Constitution requires
that the court review the alignment
every two years and "rearrange (the
constituencies) if necessary to ensure
reasonably equal representation."
Senate Seat 10 will shift from rep
resenting undeclared students to
representing journalism and educa
tion majors, and Seat 12 will add
music and theater arts students to
the architecture and allied arts ma
jors it already represents. Seat 13 will
represent business students instead
of journalism students, Seat 17 will
represent graduate and law students
instead of business students, and
Seat 18 will also represent law stu
dents in addition to other graduate
students. The remaining seats will
not change.
"It was a constitutionally mandat
ed duty that we fulfilled," Chief Jus
tice Michael Harris said.
Senate President Ben Strawn said
the senate did most of the work.
"Con Court hasn't really had a his
tory of being proactive on things like
this, so we decided that we were going
to take it on," he said. "It was some
thing that really needed to be done."
Ihe Constitution states that senate
seats should represent a roughly equal
number of students, with a disparity
of 15 percent or less to be deemed
"reasonably equal."
Several of the seats will continue to
have a disparity of more than 15 per
cent, but senators said that this is the
best they can do.
"We can't get it perfectly, so the
Rules Committee tried to do it as best
as possible," Day said.
The court affirmed that the align
ment "does ensure reasonably equal
representation."
— Chuck Slothower
Fraternity, sorority to host
dance at senior community
Toes will be tapping and skirts will
be swishing at the Alpine Springs As
sisted Living Community tonight.
University students from the Delta
Gamma sorority and the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity will be hosting a Valentine's
Dance for the seniors at the assisted
living home, located at 3760 N.
Clarey St.
Members of the fraternity and
sorority will set up and decorate the
assisted living home from 6 p.m. to 7
p.m., and the dance will go from 7
p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The dance will feature music from
the 1920s, '30s, '40s and '50s. Mem
bers of Beta Theta Pi and Delta Gam
ma will socialize and dance with the
residents while exchanging Valen
tine's Day memories. In addition,
members of the fraternity and sorority
have prepared Valentine's Day cards
to give to residents of the assisted liv
ing home.
"Beta Theta Pi and Delta Gamma
are extremely excited to host this
event," said Dan Scheinman, social
chairman for Beta Theta Pi. "This is a
great way to bring joy to the residents
of Alpine Springs Assisted Living
Home. We hope to build a lasting re
lationship with the residents and
make this an annual event."
— Jennifer Marie Bear
Kip Kinkel enters final step
of appeal process
Kip Kinkel — who was convicted in
1998 of killing his parents as well as
two classmates at Thurston High
School — has exhausted the first level
of appeals and has entered his final
step in the process.
Kinkel's attorney, Lawrence
Matasar, filed a petition in December
for post-conviction relief at the Mari
on County Circuit Court. The peti
tion claims that Kinkel's trial and ap
pellate lawyers did not provide
effective counsel and that Kinkel is
being unconstitutionally imprisoned
by Gary Lawhead, superintendent of
the MacLaren Youth Correctional Fa
cility in Woodbum.
Kinkel is slated to stay at the youth
correction facility until he is 25 years
old, after which he will be transferred
to an Oregon prison.
Kinkel, 21, was convicted of the
murders in May 1998 at the age of 15.
He also pleaded guilty to 25 counts of
aggravated attempted murder and was
convicted on 26 counts — 25 for
wounding students and one for as
saulting a police detective.
By pleading guilty, Kinkel aban
doned the opportunity for an insan
ity defense.
In November 1999, Kinkel received
a sentence of 111 years and eight
months in prison without the possi
bility of parole.
The petition claims that at the time
he entered the guilty plea, Kinkel was
suffering from paranoid schizophre
nia, auditory hallucinations, impaired
neurological functioning and was
mentally incompetent to stand trial
and assist in his own defense.
It also claimed that the trial coun
sel failed to request that the trial court
order a mental examination and that
the appellate counsel failed to bring
this issue up on appeal.
A pre-trial conference is scheduled
for April 19, 2004.
— Lisa Catto
Ursula K. Le Guin to speak
at a writer's forum Sunday
University students and faculty
members with a flair for fiction have
an opportunity to discuss the craft of
writing Sunday with science fiction
author Ursula K. Le Guin and a panel
of local authors.
The writer's forum is sponsored by
"Readin' in the Rain" and will take
place Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at
the McNail-Riley House, located at
the intersection of 13th Avenue and
Jefferson Street in Eugene. Refresh
ments during the forum will be pro
vided by the Network Charter School
Culinary Arts Program.
The cost is $50, and participation is
limited to 35 people, with 10 posi
tions reserved for local high school
and college students. Applications
will be processed on a first-come, first
served basis and are available at
www.read-rain.org.
Alan Siporin, RIR's 2003 featured
author and Oregon Book Award final
ist, will serve as panel moderator.
Other panelists include University
creative writing Professor and 2003
Oregon Book Award winner Cai Em
mons, Nebula award winner Leslie
What and recently published writer
Leon West.
Le Guin's novel, "The Lathe of
Heaven," is RIR's featured book for
2004, and according to the group's
Web site, Le Guin has been in the van
guard of science fiction writers since
the publication of her first novel in
1966. Since that time she has created
an impressive and wide-ranging body
of work. Her writings include 19 nov
els, nine story collections, 12 books of
poetry and translated works and 12
children's books.
In addition to the writer's forum
on Sunday, Le Guin will be available
to sign copies of her books on Satur
day at New Zone Art Collective, lo
cated at the intersection of Broad
way and Willamette Street, from
noon to 4 p.m.
In conjunction with the 2004
Readin' in the Rain events, Special
Collections at the Knight Library has
set up a display of Le Guin’s pub
lished books. The exhibit includes
first and special editions, translations
and other forms of publication of the
Portland author's works.
The display continues through
Feb. 29 and is open to the public
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday and from 11 a.m. to
5 p.m. Saturday. For more informa
tion, call University Special Collec
tions and University Archives at
346-3068.
—Jennifer Marie Bear
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Education workshop entitled “Great Performance:
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Room 130, Baker Downtown Center South
Building, 8:30a.m.4 p.m.
Voter registration rally as part of “Love Your Vote
Day," EMU Amphitheater, 10a.m.-3 p.m,
Oregon ballroom dance, Room 220,
Gerlinger Hall, 7:30-11:30 p.m.