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Today Tuesday Wednesday High: 68 High: 68 High: 66 Low: 48 Low: 51 Low: 49 Precip: 30% Precip: 30% Precip: 50% IN BRIEF University commemorates Holocaust Awareness Week Three local organizations are sponsoring several events at the University this week in honor of Holocaust Awareness Week and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners at Auschwitz concentra tion camp. The Jewish Student Union, Ore gon Hillel and the University Cultural Forum are sponsoring speeches, films, poetry readings, a special Shabbat service and a 24-hour read ing of names of people who died during the Holocaust. • Litany of the Martyrs - 6 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday to today in the EMU Amphitheater. Members of var ious multicultural groups on campus and of several community organiza tions will read the names of some of those killed during the Holocaust. • Lecture by Zvonimir Hacko and showing of “Hotel Rwanda” — 6:30 p.m. today in 100 Willamette. Hacko, an expert on the portrayal of the Holocaust through music, will lecture about genocide worldwide. “Hotel Rwanda” is an Oscar-nomi nated film about the Tutsi tribe’s struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. • Holocaust survivors — 6 p.m. Tliesday in the EMU Fir Room. Holo caust survivors Eva and Les Aigner will share their eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust. The Aigners, who both lost members of their families in the Holocaust, met, married and left communist Hungary in 1956. • Former neo-Nazi T.J. Leyden’s lecture — 7 p.m. Wednesday in tire EMU Ballroom. Leyden spent 15 years as a neo-Nazi activist and recruiter and is the only known per son to leave the movement and re tain his birth name. Leyden was in vited by former President Clinton to speak at a White House conference on hate and has helped train the FBI and the Pentagon on tactics for com bating neo-Nazi organizations. • Sephardic Poetry: Lost Jewish Voices — 3 p.m. Thursday in 246 Gerlinger. University assistant pro fessor Monique Balbuena will hold a reading of Holocaust-related poetry. • Shabbat Service — Governor’s residence in Salem. Gov. Ted Kulon goski has invited Jewish students to join him for a Shoah Shabbat service at his residence. — Jared Pa ben Diversity Action Plan draft to be presented today A draft of the University’s Diversi ty Action Plan, a set of initiatives in tended to increase diversity of stu dent, faculty and staff populations on campus, will be released in a set of “Community Conversations” starting today. The first of the three events will be held in the EMU International Lounge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The second will be in Gerlinger Hall on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the final event will be in the EMU Ben Linder Room on May 9 from noon to 8 p.m. Presentations of the diversity plan will be conducted at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the conversa tions today and Wednesday. On May 9, presentations will take place at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. University officials, including Greg Vincent, vice provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity, will use the conversations to seek feedback from as many individuals as possible on the plan, which has been in progress since last year. The events are open to students, staff, faculty and com munity members. Vincent, leader of the planning process, told the Emerald in the fall that the plan would be completed this spring and ready for implemen tation for fall term 2005. — Adam Cherry Kroc: Hoppers aspiration is to 'give wisdom space' Continued from page 1 successful, and the sale of Hopper’s photos raised money for the organi zation. The organization also re ceived a grant to integrate Hopper’s exhibit into an education al curriculum about Kenya for Port land-high-schoolers. After returning from Kenya, Hop per continued to travel. He spent a month in Southern India and took a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. “I was traveling because I was re ally interested in the culture and the religion,” he said. “My travels ex panded my mind in so many ways. It was really priceless. ” Hopper’s activism didn’t slow when he reached the University. He volunteered with the KWVA, the campus’ student-run radio station, anchoring a news program. As the director of the University’s Queer Film Festival, Hopper pushed the envelope by choosing to show some unusually provocative films, University Director of Communica tions Todd Simmons said. “He’s really one of the most thoughtful and caring and engaged students that I know,” said Sim mons, who worked with Hopper on the film festival in 2004. “He’s really passionately interested in the world around him.” Simmons recommended Hopper for the Kroc Fellowship and said he was impressed by Hopper’s highly developed sense of journalistic ethic. “One thing that really stood out for me ... is something that comes through in his work,” Simmons said. “He’s sensitive to creating voices for the unheard. ... To me, more of those kinds of journalists are needed in this kind of media.” Hopper said his goal as a journal ist is to “create conversation and ... include as many voices as possible in that conversation.” “It’s not just empowering for the people that are marginalized, but it creates a more interesting and rele vant conversation in real life,” Hop per said. “There’s a lot of perspec tives that aren’t heard and a lot of wisdom that isn’t ever given space.” moriahbalingit@dailyemerald.com GOT A STORY IDEA? give us a call c_i at 346-55111< nn EMERALD Applying Psychology to the Real World Department of Psychology’, Summer Session 2005 Join us for an exciting summer of Psychology! Our summer classes are small and geared towards investigating real life issues. Course offerings include: Culture & Mental Health • Human Sexuality • Evolutionary Psychology • Social Conflict • Psychology of Trauma • and many others. Several courses also fulfill social science, science and multicultural requirements. Registration begins Monday, May 2, 2005 For a complete course listing and more information, please visit our web page: http://psychweb.uoregon.edu/summer/default.htm r Holocaust Awareness Week 5/1-2 6pm 4pm EMU Amphitheater m* 5/2 7pm WHIM 24 Hour Readino of the Names of Those Whose Lives Were Taken Film:'Hotel Rwanda'and speaker Zvonimir Hacko Tws S/3 6pm CER 246 Holocaust Survivors, Eva and Les Aigner, share and diseuss their stories w«i 5/4 7pm EMU Ballroom Tom 'TJ.' Leyden: Former Neo-Nazi, Anti-Hate speaker focused on teaching tolerance Sephardic Poetry: Lost Jewish Voices w ith Professor Monique Balbuena Thr 5/5 3pm EMU Fir Room fh 5/6 5:30pm Governor's Mansion Salem, OR Shoah Shabbat hosted by Governor Ted KlflongOSki; RSVFto Ongoi Hitltl All Events Are Free and Open to the Public BO YEARS OF LIBERATION UO Jewish Student Union Cultural Forum Oregon Hillel Co-sponsors: Greek Life, Women's Law Forum, APS, RHA, ASUO, MCC, BSU, APASU, Women's Center The Student Initiatives Committee of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Encouragement Grants For more information, contact: Ava Asher (aasher@gladstone.uoregon.edu) or Jodi Roth at (541) 343-8920 Student Groups! Advertise in the Emerald call 346-4343 or place your ad online at www.dailyemerald.com
