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/"'V LUIMA open Tuesday through Saturday at <4 pm Ml H fl ^Oth East Broadway [5-41) 434-LUNA I J] Event info and more at www.lunajazz.com MIKE PARDEW SENIOR RECITAL BY THE UO SCHOOL OF JAZZ DAVID FRIESEN OU Cl C\/CM CVCClLAURA KEMP and CLCVClM C ICO ERIK MUIDERMAN OCHECA Next to Adam’s Place Restaurant 434-LUNA Dinning Room open 5 pm to 9 pm weeknights 10 pm weekends Smoker Boxing Exhibition All proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club. Be a boxer! Event: 7PM, MacArthur Court Spectators: $5 student $7 general No boxing experience necessary! Go to the Greek Life Office to get an application or more information. e-mail Levi Finch at: lfinch@gladstone.uoregon.edu Go to the Greek Life Office, Suite 5, EMU E* i"» Co-presented by University of Oregon School of Music and the Hult Center Masters of Indian Music - Pandit Samir Chatterjee and Pandit Ramesh Misra play Ra^as S Tablas, plus world music with Ethos Percussion. Saturday, April ijat 8:oopnr Beall Concert Hall UNIVERSITY OF OREGON fltcetiter.org TICKETS: $15, 20, students $12 Canada offers accessible locale with European feel Ready to start planning for a college getaway and bask in the freedom of youth travel? Maybe make up for a less-than-wild spring break? With Memorial Day weekend and summer creeping closer, now is the time to find some travel buddies and organize your next trip. My personal recommendation is to look just past the border of our northern neighbor to the twin gems of Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia. Living in the Northwest gives us easy access by car, which is quite an advan tage. Cross the border into Canada and you feel pleasantly transported — you'll be among different money, different road signs and European architecture. The country's first great spectacle is Vancouver, which appeals to three types of travelers: big city trekkers, mountain explorers and beach bums. The second must-see is Victoria, a har bor-bordered taste of royalty. Going to British Columbia calls for a road trip. Via Interstate 5 going north, Vancouver is exactly seven hours away from Eugene, but give yourself between eight and nine hours to avoid burnout. When booking accommodations, save the hotels for families and married cou ples. Vancouver has a number of hos tels, and the most ideally located one is Hostelling International's pad in central Vancouver, which sits on the hip-and happening Granville Street. Beds run for between $20 and $30 per night, so your pockets won't be empty as you ex plore the cosmopolitan environs. Look down one end between Vancouver's skyscrapers and you'll see fir-covered mountains; look down the other end to find sandy beaches. Take the mountain route to engage in Van couver's first essential activity: crossing the Capilano Suspension Bridge. The 450-foot long bridge rests 230 feet in the air, and a walk across is an excep tional thrill. In the same rugged vicini ty, don't miss the Skyride up Grouse Mountain, a one-mile journey in a wire-suspended car to Vancouver's peak. On top you will find bear habi tats, deer at arm's length and a breath taking view of the city. Both attractions are a short drive from downtown. Natasha Chilingerian Nat goes to town Back in the city, be sure to dine at one of Vancouver's many great restau rants with a people-watching balcony. One great choice is Milestone's Grill and Bar, a stylish, internationally in spired eatery on Fourth Avenue West. Not only does the restaurant look down on the English Bay's carefree beaches, but it offers excellent choco late martinis. And, to all the freshmen and sophomores, remember that Canada's drinking age is a reasonable 19 years old, so enjoy your green light to have specialty cocktails and cap off the nights with club and bar-hopping. Complete your trip with a ferry ride to Victoria. Ferries depart from the town ofTsawwassen, which is a 35-minute drive south of Vancouver. Victoria ex udes quiet sophistication and is marked by its two water-side symbols: the giant, ivy-covered Fairmount Empress Hotel and elegant Parliament Buildings. For intellectual minds, tour the Royal British Columbia Museum, which boasts a large collection of di nosaur bones, natural history exhibits and Native American paraphernalia. The Craigdarroch Castle is also worth checking out — it's a trip back in time to the lifestyles of the very rich in the late 1800s. Both are within walking distance ofVictoria's central vicinity. After a day of sightseeing, take a second ferry out ofVictoria's harbor to Port Angeles, Wash., and begin your trip home. Consider having your next travel es capade in Vancouver and Victoria. They attract adventure-lovers, sereni ty-seekers and city sophisticates alike, but best of all, they are easily accessi ble foreign destinations. For more information on either of these cities, visit their official tourism Web sites at http://www.tourismvancouver.com and http://www.tourismvictoria.com. Contact the Pulse reporter at natashachilingerian@dailyemerald.com. Her opinions do not necessarily represent those of the Emerald. Rejection of social control begins with our own bodies I spent my Easter Sunday afternoon walking a purple African daisy plant from my house in the Whiteaker neigh borhood over to my friend's place near campus. As I walked the river bike path, past all the family holiday picnics, all the children playing on the playground and the bicyclists zooming by, I felt like quite the odd bird — alone, dressed in all black and holding this purple plant. I'm not used to being a pedestrian .V**164 around these parts. See, I didn't want to risk ruining such beautiful flowers. This is why 1 decided to walk them all the way to their destination. So I ended up spending a large portion of my day on foot. I now know that the trip takes 50 minutes both ways if you take the sce nic route. But this was an after thought. After a while, I stopped thinking about my individual steps, where I was going or where 1 was coming from. I was just walking, flowing, finding a kind of meditation in the everyday. Aaron Shakra Out of range But as I passed Mac Court, some thing finally did stop me. It was the blue box of the Register-Guard, the newspaper inside reading: "Submit or die, Marines tell holdouts." I take a deep breath. "Submit or die." This is rape cul ture This is death culture repackaged and represented in an easy-to-digest form, available for withdrawal from a blue box. Or whatever color box — They're all the same shades of gray. And that beautiful spring day had worked so well to abstract me from that reality. To distract me. I can just walk on, you see. I can hold my little flower, listen to the birds, imagine myself a poet and pretend the rest doesn't affect me. There's this scene in the animated film "Waking Life" where a man drives a car around the city shouting out his diatribe over the loudspeaker system. "We have got to realize we are being conditioned on a mass scale," he says. It's one of my favorite scenes. (Another friend of mine always likes to point out that there's no one around in that city to hear what the man has to say.) It's hard to point to the mecha nisms of socialization because they are often invisible. Unfortunately, this invisibility creates wicked dualisms, starting with our relationship with our bodies. Gender is a good starting point. Sociologist Margaret L. Ander son writes, "Gender is created, not just within families or interpersonal rela tionships, but also within the struc ture of all major social institutions, in cluding schools, religion, economy and the state." In other words, gender — whether Turn to SHAKRA, page 11 GOT A STORY give us a call oj! at 346-5511.8<| GOLF CLUB 822-3220 Qolj erf, di liwedt. 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