Puliter Prize winner expected to address UO

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By Emily Gillespie | News reporter

Published: Thursday, October 15, 2009

Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder is expected to speak at the EMU Ballroom early winter term after the ASUO Senate approved $6,500 toward a speaking fee and advertisement for the event.

Requested by the Clark Honors College Student Association, the amount was debated because funds were said to include advertisements in newspapers such as the Emerald, Eugene Weekly and the Register-Guard.

Sen. Demic Tipitino raised concern over the incidental fee funding advertisement. “I think that it’s inappropriate for student fees to send ads to the Register-Guard,” he said in the 
meeting, concerned that the money would not directly benefit students. “I don’t think my parents coming to the event would support the cultural and physical development of students.” Tipitino referenced an event last spring in which Greg Mortenson spoke to a mostly nonstudent audience. His concerns were that he did not want student fees to pay for an event not attended by students.  Tipitino ended up voting in favor of the $6,500 request.

Kidder’s book, “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” is required reading for freshmen in the honors college, making the speaker especially important to those students. “Mountains Beyond Mountains” deals with issues including global health and tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, who made house calls in the mountains of Haiti.

egillespie@dailyemerald.com

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Students will have chance to participate in various workshops, discussions

by Lauren Fox | News Reporter

Sub-Saharan Africa may be home to only 10 percent of the world’s population, but it accounts for more than 60 percent of the world’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. Despite international support to eliminate the disease, 22 million adults and children living in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS.

Students for Global Health in association with the African Studies Program will host the University’s first AIDS conference Friday and Saturday in association with the spring 2009 national conference for FACE AIDS, a student organization that fights HIV/AIDS in Africa and exists on 150 campuses nationwide.

Read full story here.

The FACE AIDS chapter at the Unversity of Virginia recently launched  a “How Do You Wear Your Pin?” Campaign, moving a step beyond Oregon’s fall campaign, taking dozens of photos with a variety of subjects.

See there full site here: http://howdoyouwearyourpin.com/virginia

See Oregon’s fall campaign here: http://howdoyouwearyourpin.com

Find the facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=80365690445&ref=mf

How Do You Wear Your Pin?

 Click above to see the other people pictured in the “How Do You Wear Your Pin?” photo series.

With our partnership with FACE AIDS, a national student organization to fight AIDS in Africa, the  Rwandan-made awareness pins are sold for $5 each. Through another partnership with Silicon Valley foundations, each $5 SGH raises for FACE AIDS is matched by an additional $5.

Since their inception, FACE AIDS has raised over $1.1 million for HIV/AIDS treatment on over 150 college and high school campuses.