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.
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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.
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