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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
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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
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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
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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
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