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Culture

MEChA hosts low rider show

This Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., Red Square will fill up with tricked-out trucks, cars and bikes for the annual Ridin’ Low in the 3-6-0. This is the eighth year of the event, sponsored by AS club Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan (MEChA), and they hope for an even bigger turnout than last year, MEChA minister of education Maribel Galvan said. They are anticipating filling Red Square and spilling over to Carver gym, under the sky bridge and even onto High Street.

“We want people to see the cars for the pieces of art that they are,” Galvan said. The show means to break down the stereotypes of gang affiliation that pervade low rider culture.

The show won’t just include low riders (vehicles that have had their suspension modified so that they ride as low to the ground as possible). Last year’s event showcased supped up mini vans, 1940’s classics, old and new custom painted trucks, cars with booming sound equipment, and customized low rider bicycles with chrome banana seats and handles.

 

AS club brings Hawaiian celebration to Western

The twelfth annual spring luau Mo’olelo ‘O Hawaii: Legends of a People offers Western students a glance inside Hawaiian culture and life. The event is May 17 at 5:30 p.m in the Viking Union Multipurpose Room.

The luau is hosted by Hui ‘O Hawaii, a club in the Ethnic Student Center.

Tickets for students are $12, for general public they are $17 and the night of the event they are $20 for both students and public. Students can buy their students at the Performing Arts Center box office, or online through its Web site.

“We will be having tradition Hawaiian food: Kalua pig, rice, chicken long rice, pineapple, poi, lomi lomi salmon, macaroni salad,” Cody Arashiro, co-coordinator of the luau, said. “We are also having Mallard make a special ice cream: coconut, macadamia nut, something tropical.”

The evening will encompass a wide variety of entertainment, especially dance.

 
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