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Lauren Wimer Photographer Junior Claire Herbert (right) and other dancers perform a hip-hop routine Friday in the EMU Amphitheater during the opening day of the second-annual Venus Festival. The festival included workshops, entertainment, artwork and music. Festival celebrates women Venus Festival attendees went to workshops, heard speakers and took in art By Jonah Schrogin Freelance Reporter The second-annual Venus Festival 4 kicked off in the EMU Amphitheater on Friday and continued through the weekend, culminating in a ban quet in the EMU Ballroom held Sun day evening. The Venus Festival included enter tainment, workshops, music and art work. Festival Director Briana Faris said her goal was "creating a safe space for women of all different eth nicities and backgrounds to come together and celebrate their differ ences . . many strengths can come but of those differences." There were informational tables and performances in the amphithe ater on Friday. Many different groups — including Planned Parent hood, the University Health Center, Students for Choice, the ASUO Women's Center, the University Stu dent Fibers Guild and the Sexual Wellness Awareness Team — provid ed information about their organi zations. "Students for Choice is here to show support for the Venus Festival, to celebrate women's issues and to provide information that's helpful and pertinent to their lives," Stu dents for Choice representative Amanda Mabry said. Some of the performers included Instructor Nadia Telsey doing a demonstration of self-defense, a group of University students who put together a dance and hip-hop crew Genus Productions. On Saturday and Sunday, there were four hour-long sessions each day with multiple workshops. Saturday's workshops touched on issues about oppression, men's role in sexual vio lence prevention, transgender issues and sexual pleasure. It also included improv theater. Take Kaplan. Score higher. Classes are starting soon! LSAT.4/6 GRE.4/18 DAT.5/3 GMAT.5/5 MCAT.5/15 KAPLAN 1 -800-KAP-TEST kaptest.com Test Prep and Admissions •Test names ere registered trademarks of their respective owners. The sexual pleasure workshop was one of the most popular workshops of the weekend. "Most people have sex because it feels good," said workshop presen ter Shelagh Johnson. However, she said men and women rarely have or gasms at the same time. Usually men reach orgasm much faster than women, so women should be stim ulated before intercourse. She dis cussed the locations in men and women where orgasms occur, and she also talked about different ways of having sex. Turn to VENUS, page 4 NEWS BRIEF OUS Chancellor's Office to take $1 million cut State Board of I Iigher Education President Neil Goldschmidt an nounced last week that the Oregon University System Chancellor's Of fice will take an immediate budget reduction of $1 million, according to an OUS release. The pennanent reduction will re duce the impact of Measure 30's fail ure on OUS campuses from $7.5 mil lion to $6.5 million. The cut will come primarily through eliminating the functions of the office's Academic Affairs divi sion, which is in part responsible for monitoring new campus programs, OUS spokeswoman Di Saunders said. The functions will either be completely eliminated or moved to campuses, she added. "It's taking the Chancellor's Office out of that intermediary position," she said. The division cut also means the elimination of the senior vice chan cellor for academic affairs position, although Saunders said there has been no timeline established for other layoffs. Saunders said the Chancellor's Of fice may face more cuts, but the $3.75 million cut the board proposed last term was just a "what-if scenario" pro vided to campuses. "I think we just need to look at the $ 1 million at this point" she said. With last week's resignation of Chancellor Richard Jarvis, the board approved former Oregon Depart ment of Administrative Services Di rector Jon Yunker as interim chief op erating officer and executive vice chancellor, according to the release. Goldschmidt said recruitment for a new OIJS chancellor will not begin until the restructuring of the Chancel lor's Office has been finalized, which is expected to take place during the next six months. The board also heard tuition in crease proposals from OUS schools at its meeting last week, including the University's 12 percent increase, Ore gon State University's 5 percent in crease and Southern Oregon Univer sity's 12 percent increase. Portland State University proposed no tuition increases for next year. The board is set to give final approval for any increases at its lune meeting. — Chelsea Duncan CAMPUS BUZZ Monday Art exhibit featuring work by Bachelor of Fine Arts multimedia students Brian Floyd, Risa Masamura, McKenzie Wood and Jung In Yun and painting by Mikey Straub, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Lawrence Hall, today-Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. "Drawing Dinosaurs I" (youth after-school class), Museum of Natural History, 4-5:30 p.m., runs to day-May 10. Registration for this after-school class is open for 4th- through 6th-graders. Dance concert entitled "Africa Night," Dougherty Dance Theater, Gerlinger Annex, 8 p.m. REC AEROBICS SPRING 2004 XX cn H IEV EE IVIORE , F=* HARD! ■Z* err g—* m % M.. 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