N.E.W.S.THE UOiSA MAGAZINE

Spring 2015 Issue

UOiSA 2014-2015 Members

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Program

Fundraising

Daphne Ho

Caitlin Sherman

([HFXWLYH� Arrada Duangdao

Gary Gao

Ben Leamon

Alex Hardin

Gwyn Snider

Tara Travisano

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([HFXWLYH� Gideon Hong

Jia Chen

Maria Pervova

Ian Stoll

&RQWHQW�(GLWRUV� Alana McKenzie, Ellen Hovede,

Shuo Xu, Joe Zhao

*UDSKLF�'HVLJQHU��Shuo Xu, Zaky Ramadhan

3KRWRJUDSKHUV��Iris Tian

([HFXWLYH� Courtney Theim

Srushti Kamat

Ellie Keeton

Zaky Ramadhan

Iris Tian

Sam Vitello

([HFXWLYH� Joe Zhao

Taylor Davis

Ellen Hovde

Amy Li

Alana McKenzie

Fatoumata Traore

Shuo Xu

Rimi Yoneya

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iWeek & iNight - Let’s go some where!

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Indian Night

Coffee Hour Interview

Next iSA president introduction

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FLOWER GIVEAWAY

& SUSHI WORKSHOP

E X P L O R E , E X P E R I E N C E , E M B R A C E !

MONDAY:

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To kick-off International Week, ISA gave away free roses and candy in the EMU Amphitheatre.

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In the afternoon,

we held a Sushi

workshop that was

a huge hit!

TUESDAY:CRAFT CENTER, HULA DANCE,

& AFRICAN DANCE

8LI�½VWX�IZIRX�[EW�E�[SSH�block printing session in the

Mills.

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ISA hosted a hula-dancing lesson.

Big thank you to Elizabeth from K.Aire who led the

Hula lesson!

A basketball-shooting contest went down at the Old-town court where people made three’s and dunked the ball. Also, participants played a friendly 5-5 game! It was very exciting and fun! After an exhausting day playing basketball, ISA hosted a movie night in the Mills where we watched Big Hero 6 and ate lots of pizza and other goodies.

WEDNESDAY:BASKETBALL GAME

& MOVIE NIGHT

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THURSDAY:SPRING ROLL WORKSHOP

& PING PONG

Thank you to UO VSA who

helped teach us how to make

spring rolls. Our spring roll

workshop was a big success and

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In the afternoon, ISA hosted

a Ping-Pong tournament with

the help of the UO Table Ten-

nis Club. Thanks to all the 2x2

Ping-Pong teams who partici-

pated!

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FRIDAY:SOCCER GAME &

INTERNATIONAL FAIR

For the last day of I-Week, we

hosted a World Cup Soccer game

EX�XLI�XYVJ�½IPHW��8LERO�]SY�XS�7-7�[LS�GS�LSWXIH�XLMW�IZIRX��-X�was a blast!

3YV�PEWX�IZIRX�[EW�SYV�-RXIVREXMSREP�Fair and Games. This took place instead

of our regular coffee hour and more

JSSH�[EW�TVSZMHIH��7XYHIRX�KVSYTW�WIX�up booths and brought cultural games

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INTERNATIONAL

NIGHT

SATURDAY:

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We wrapped up I-Week with a night celebrat-ing food and music from all around the world: International Night!

The evening began with crafts and activities. The Emerald Photobooth provided a photo shoot and guests had the opportunity to get a henna tattoo, make a Venetian mask, and write about their travels or hometowns and pin it to our travel board map. Dinner was a delicious assortment of some of the best in-ternational food. The meal began with an egg-plant dish from China, cheese Fatayer, and Tabbouleh followed by daal curry, rice and naan, tamales, and jajangmyeon (a Chinese/Korean noodle dish) which could be washed down with Thai iced tea and/or Horchata. To top it off dessert was tiramisu and cinna-mon-sugar-coated churros.

Our show opened with the UO Wushu Club and took us on a cultural journey around the world from China, to India with a traditional solo dance by Namratha Somayajula, and to South America with a local salsa dance troupe the Salseros. We were also honored by appear-ances from KP performing the Tinikling stick dance, the UO Improv Group, K.Aire, the Sa-man dance from Indonesia, tap dancing, the Lotus Dance by VSA, and an international fashion show presented by members of the International Cultural Service Program. At the end of the night everyone returned home with pictures and crafts feeling full of great food and memories.

WHAT DOES MEAN TO YOU?

Embracing Differe

nces

Belgium Waffles

HAPPINESS!

A WELCOMING COMMUNITY!

Fun, Food, F

riends

A Forever Friendship

Intergalactic Space Anonymous

ISA is Family

Love and PeaceManyFaces!

Internally Suspicious

Antics

Dearest Friends

Community & Solidarity

Awesome, Wonderful

Means a lot!

Thanks a lot for

all the nice events

for international

ducks

Free food @ 4:00 on Fridays!

ISA helps connect

every culture

around the world

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Sunday, April 19, 2015–EUGENE, OR– Universi-ty of Oregon Students of the Indian Subcontinent hosted their annual culture night, Ustav, that each year brings together a variety of cultures from across the Indian sub-continent. A word derived from Sanskrit, Utsav means “celebration”– one of the primary goals of UO SIS, in putting on Utsav each year, is to celebrate the immense diversity and the beauty of the arts and histories of South Asia. Each time, dancers and singers with talents from across the region come to the stage of the EMU Ball-URRP��ÀOOLQJ�WKH�KDOO�ZLWK�PXVLF�DQG�H[FLWHPHQW��

This year, performers in Utsav represented many different parts of India, and came from the U of O, from around Eugene, and even from Portland. Performers from Nartana School of Dance, a school of Kuchipudi dance in Portland, Oregon, gracefully opened the show with a number of Kuchipudi dance items. Kuchipudi is a clas-sical dance form from Andhra Pradesh in South-Central

India, and the dancers of Nartana School of Dance skill-IXOO\�H[HFXWHG�WKH�LQWULFDWH�VWHSV�RI�WKH�GDQFH��DPD]LQJ�WKH�DXGLHQFH�ZLWK�WKHLU�IRRWZRUN��H[SUHVVLRQV��DQG�JUDFH��

A talented group of women from Eugene perfor-med a vibrant traditional folk dance from Rajasthan, adorned in blue and red traditional dresses, a headdress, and colorful bangles. Communities throughout Rajasthan perform folk dances in the deserts and villages across the state for many occasions, and the performers at Utsav successfully brought the joy and spirit of the dance to the Ballroom stage.

Towards the end of the show, Eugene high school student Sukriti Agarwal transported the audience to the southern tips of India when she performed a beautiful Bharatanatyam dance piece. Bharatanatyam is an ancient classical dance form from Tamil Nadu, India. Similar in some ways to Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam dance also is

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Article by Namratha Somayajula Photos by Natsumi Seki/Emerald

usually accompanied by Carnatic music, and combines LQWULFDWH�IRRWZRUN�ZLWK�JUDFH�DQG�H[SUHVVLRQ��,Q�IDFW��WKH�word Bharatanatyam is itself a combination of four Sans-krit words that describe the art form’s main components: %KDYDP��PHDQLQJ�H[SUHVVLRQ��UDJDP��PHDQLQJ�PXVLF��WKDODP��PHDQLQJ�UK\WKP��DQG�QDW\DP��PHDQLQJ�GDQFH��Incorporating these elements seamlessly, Sukriti perfor-med her piece to the melody of Sanskrit chants, which were dedicated to Hindu Goddess Lakshmi and which H[SUHVVHG�D�ZLVK�IRU�SHDFH��

Naman Jain, a student at the University of Oregon, took to the stage with boundless energy and a clear pas-sion for his art. He sang an upbeat and melodious amal-JDPDWLRQ�RI�SRSXODU�%ROO\ZRRG�VRQJV��HQHUJL]LQJ�WKH�audience the whole time. His performance complemented this year’s theme for Utsav–Bollywood 90’s Flashback–as did the impressive contemporary solo dance performed by Sagarika, who is also a young Eugene community member. She performed to a medley of two different

songs–Manwa Laage and Dola Re Dola, the second being her childhood favorite–and blew the audience away with KHU�OLYHOLQHVV�DQG�H[FHSWLRQDO�WDOHQW���

Also sprinkled throughout the night were a variety of performances of Bhangra–a folk dance of the northern Punjab region of India–including those by Eugene Bhan-gra and lastly, by the U of O Bhangra team, who closed the show with a grand impact as they do each year.

UO Students of the Indian Subcontinent would like to thank the University of Oregon’s Department of International Studies, the Mills International Center, and WKH�2IÀFH�RI�,QWHUQDWLRQDO�$IIDLUV�IRU�WKH�VXSSRUW�WKDW�made this year’s Utsav possible. They would also like to thank Taste of India, an Indian restaurant in Eugene, for catering delicious food during the evening. The members of SIS look forward to seeing the Eugene and U of O FRPPXQLWLHV�DW�QH[W�\HDU·V�8WVDY�

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Article by Namratha Somayajula Photos by Natsumi Seki/Emerald

Name: Zhenpeng Zou or (Frank)Year in School: Grad Student Major: Economics Hometown: Qingdao, China

iSA: What do you like about the University of Ore-gon?

Zhenpeng: I love football and I love going to games DW�$XW]HQ�6WDGLXP��,�DP�D�KXJH�0DUFXV�0DULRWD�IDQ��,�like the University’s econo-mics program too.

iSA: What are your hob-bies?

Zhenpeng: I like playing tennis and listening to all types of different music. I like watching sketch come-dies also.

iSA: What is your favorite college memory so far?

Zhenpeng: :KHQ�,�ZDV�DQ�H[FKDQJH�VWXGHQW��WZR�years ago), I followed the Ducks to the Rose Bowl and LW�ZDV�VR�IXQ��,W�ZDV�VXFK�DQ�LQFUHGLEOH�WULS�EHFDXVH�,�got to watch Mariota and the ducks win another Rose %RZO��,�ORYHG�EHLQJ�DEOH�WR�FKHHU�ZLWK�RWKHU�GXFN�fans.

iSA: What is your hopes for the future?

Zhenpeng: I hope to get a research job in the United States.

iSA: If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Zhenpeng: I would go to Italy because I love the culture there and the food is delicious.

iSA: What are three words to describe yourself?

Zhenpeng: Laid back, ner-dy, open-minded

iSA: Are you going to I-Night? What event are you most excited to at-tend?

Zhenpeng: <HV��,�ORYHG�going to I-Night because I enjoyed watching all the different cultural acts. I also

ZHQW�WR�,�:HHN�DFWLYLWLHV�ZKLFK�ZHUH�VXSHU�H[FLWLQJ��,�went to the sushi workshop and I watched the movie Big Hero 6.

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Coffee Hour

Interview

iSA‘s new president of 2015-2016

Mission statements1. Keep ISA Traditions Keep all of the traditional ISA events, like coffee hour, week

and night, Halloween and winter dance, and the end of the year

BBQ. I will continue to make these events successful and add on to

make them bigger and better.

2. Cooperate with other students group -Isa participate more other student groups’ events, and help

other student groups marketing their events.

-Invite more student groups to ISA events, and help them pro-

mote their groups and events.

-Come up new events cooperate with other students groups.

3. Set up international students fit in program -Come up new events help international students adapt to col-

lege life in America, And events Building up bridge between interna-

tional and American students such as international job fair. Isa group

Ducks football game, etc

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