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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'
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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.”
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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
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UO Jewish Student Union Cultural Forum Oregon Hillel
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