Carnival: Live music, dance
define fundraising occasion
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Crites said he was inspired to start
the program when he met Yvonne
Bezerra de Mello, a Brazilian human
rights activist working with children in
the slums of Brazil. He asked her how
to best help, and she told him the most
beneficial thing would be to provide
the scholarships for the brightest stu
dents to get a private-school education
so they could escape poverty.
Often, students pair with a busi
ness or other private party to help
fund a scholarship that pays for full
tuition and fees, including books,
uniforms, school supplies and food.
The funding group receives pictures
and a biography of the student it is
sponsoring. Each year, new pictures,
as well as school reports, are sent to
the sponsors.
Students who were looking for
something new to do Saturday night
got a night of live music, dance lessons
and other entertainment, while also
helping to sponsor a Brazilian
student’s education.
Freshmen Kristen Mico and Corey
Duffy attended the carnival.
“I saw advertising and love danc
ing,” Mico said. “We are always look
ing for something to do. This seemed
really great, samba dancing and Brazil
ian boys to teach us the dances. ”
Brazilian student Jackeline Silva
taught some popular Brazilian dances
at the beginning of the night and also
performed throughout the night.
“I learned the dances in the streets
in Brazil when I was little,” Silva said.
“I like to show the dances, and love to
dance. It is one of my passions. Brazil
ian dances are very free and wild. ”
Those learning the dances from Sil
va soon realized the steps were the
least-important part of the dance. Peo
ple who first robotically mimicked Sil
va’s movements were soon swaying
their hips and letting the music carry
them through the dance.
abolsinger@ dailyemerald. com
IN BRIEF
Man shot by police after
attempted kidnapping
ONTARIO — Authorities in Ontario
said a man was shot and killed by po
lice when he refused to drop his gun
after trying to kidnap a clerk in a gro
cery store parking lot.
The incident started about 4:45 p.m.
Friday. The girl fought with her would
be kidnapper, got away and ran inside
for help. She described the attack to
...
co-workers, who identified Zbigniew
Stasinski, 41, of Ontario, for police.
Later, when police tried to pull him
over, Stasinski drove into his garage
and came out of his vehicle holding a
9mm handgun.
An officer fired seven shots at
Stasinski on Friday afternoon, hitting
him multiple times.
The officer has been placed on paid
leave while the shooting is reviewed by
Oregon State Police and the Malheur
County sheriff's office.
— The Associated Press
RHA: Students to go through judicial affairs
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retreat, a total of $160 each, after a
two-and-a-half-hour debate during
the Jan. 31 meeting.
Conferences are paid with the
social fees from residence hall
dues, Mann said.
“That’s student money and it
needs to be paid back,” Mann said.
The ASUO went through a simi
lar situation after an October re
treat to Sunriver, and the RHA
looked at the student government’s
handling of the situation when de
ciding how to handle its own. The
ASUO discussed paying back stu
dent money spent on the annual
retreat, but later decided against it
because it wouldn’t be feasible to
raise the money and because it
would send the message that the
retreat wasn’t worthwhile.
“We looked at a lot of the mis
takes the ASUO has made,” Mann
said, though he added that the two
situations are different on
many levels.
The students will also go
through the judicial affairs process
with Chris Loschiavo, director of
student judicial affairs, and will be
required to design a program
“aimed at informing future RHA
representatives of the conse
quences of this type of behavior,”
Mann said in the statement.
University Housing officials said
they are not able to release the
three students’ names because Stu
dent Judicial Affairs is handling
the case.
“I think that we handled it very
quickly, very stern,” Mann said Fri
day. “This was a huge situation
that reflected very poorly upon our
organization ... that’s why the
Council acted on it quick.”
An incident like this had never
occurred before in the RHA so
there was no precedent to examine
when drafting a course of action,
Mann said.
Mike Eyster, director of Universi
ty Housing and assistant vice presi
dent of Student Affairs, said he was
impressed with how well the RHA
Council handled the situation.
“RHA has been extremely re
sponsible in the way that they’ve re
sponded to this as an organization,”
Eyster said.
Hollan said he and Eyster had
heard rumors of the violations just
a few days before informing Mann
of them.
The RHA was left in charge of
handling the situation rather than
housing officials because of the
high level of trust that exists be
tween the RHA and University
Housing, Eyster said.
“We have a lot of confidence in
their ability to manage themselves
and to do the right thing once a
problem comes to their attention,”
Eyster said.
The RHA requires attendees to
pay a portion of the conference fee
either through fundraising or their
own money to increase the sense
of personal investment, Mann said.
Mann said the students were re
quired to pay $53 to attend the con
ference — an amount that is
included in the $160 repayment.
Eyster, Hollan and Mann all
commended the RHA’s handling of
the situation and the debate the
RHA Council had regarding the
punishment process.
Mann said the three individuals
were honest during the investiga
tion and are sorry for
what happened.
“No one denied it,” Mann said.
“It was simply, this is
what happened.”
Mann said the RHA Council took
the situation extremely seriously
and discussed many different pun
ishment options, including the stu
dents’ resignation from their
positions in the RHA.
“The maturity level of the Coun
cil was astonishing to me,” Mann
said. “I thought we might get reac
tions like, ‘Hey, this is the norm,
it’s not a big deal.’ I did not
see that. ”
Eyster said he never saw a need
to intervene in the punishment
process because of how well the
situation is being handled.
“They did a great job discussing
and having conversations with
each other,” Hollan said. “They
wanted to make sure they all had a
chance to look at the different op
tions and examine the impact on
the individuals and also on
the organization. ”
Although everyone within the or
ganization wishes the violations
had never occurred, Eyster and Hol
lan said, everyone is hopeful that
the handling of the situation has re
sulted in a learning experience for
those involved.
“A lot of positive changes will
occur within the organization as a
result of this,” Hollan said. “The
group is very optimistic about
moving forward, and I think
they’ve got the energy and the
drive to do it.”
meghan ncuniff@ dailyemerald. com
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