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Housing Office says Dormitory rooms nearly full for fall It is around this time of the summer that most University students start firming up their housing plans for the next academic year. The past few years have seen students leave the dormitories in mass exodus numbers for private off-campus living accommodations such as apartments and houses. But judging from the University Housing Office waiting lists it seems that the threat of empty dormitory rooms has definitely been solved this year. More and more people are flocking to the dorms. In fact, so many that the Housing Office is having to turn down rooming applications. Dormitory reservations for next fall are no longer being taken from up By SHAHRYAR AHMAD Of the Emerald perclassmen, says Walton Complex Director Donald Lee, who is filling in for vacationing Housing Office Assistant Director Dick Romm. “As a matter of fact,” says Lee, “the upper-class waiting list was started back in early May.” Freshman applications are still being taken, though. “But,” cautions Lee, “that also will stop shortly, and we will soon have a waiting list for the freshmen also.” After that, rooms will be given on a first come, first-served basis. As each can cellation occurs, the people at the top of the waiting lists will get priority to the cancellations, Lee said. There are 400 single rooms and 1025 double rooms in the total University dormitory system, according to Lee. The singles will cost $1320 for the academic year with a lease for the same period. The charge for a double room will be $1025, also on a nine-month contract. The “retum-to-the-dormitories” is not a nation-wide movement, according to Lee. While most other campuses across the nation are having trouble filling their dormitories, the University dorms are being deluged with applications. “Innovations that we made a couple of years back,” says Lee, “have had a large influence in the (University) dorms’ popularity.” “A couple of years back we took a survey among the dorm residents to see what points about dorm living bothered them the most,” says Lee. Acting on the survey responses, the Housing Office made some innovations which Lee at tributes to the success of the dorms. The repeal of the freshman live-in rule, Lee believes, “helped make the dorms a lot pleasanter. The freshmen who didn’t want to live in the dorms but were forced to by the rule have left the dorms. Thus they haven’t become unwilling, and un desirable, tenants.” “Noise was a big problem in the dorms. But now we have carpeted all but Bean and Carson Halls,” says Lee. “That attracts a lot of people who would have ordinarily stayed away from the dorms just because of the noise problem.” “Continuous” food service is also one of the innovations brought on by the survey. Food service is now open only at Carson and Hamilton Halls, but the hours have been extended to give four hours for breakfast beginning at 6:30 a.m. for the early risers. Lunch ^oes from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinner hours are between 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (Continued on Page 7) Photo by Jacques Beteinber Yes folks, all the “in” parties are in the dorms from now on. It used to be no one would live in the dorms unless he or she was a freshman, but now dorm living is making a comeback. OSU tells fishermen where to find ‘the bis ones’ Oregon State University (OSU) scientists hope to help salmon fishermen on the Oregon coast catch more fish. This summer, researchers at OSU are using some sophisticated remote-sensing techniques in an effort to identify probable areas of fishing success. The project, which is known as the “Living Resources Prediction Feasibility Study” (LRPFS), is directed by Dr. James O’Brien, visiting oceanography professor at OSU from Florida State University. O’Brien explains that Coho salmon prefer certain temperature ranges. The basic idea erf the LRPFS project, he added, is to predict water temperature and food concentrations, then decide the most probable locations of Coho salmon. Final step, according to O’Brien, is to transmit this information to local fishermen, a job being supervised by John Faudskar, OSU Marine Extension agent in the central coastal area. An important part of the program is to determine the economic aspect of such forecasting. Dr. Bruce Woodworth, OSU School of Business and Technology professor, is heading a team of business analysts that will attempt to measure any economic impact on the Coho fishery. The salmon industry on the Central Oregon Coast has a direct economic benefit to the state on the order of $8 million a year, noted Woodworth. Any small per centage increase in this industry would be of great benefit to the local communities. Scientists and fishermen have known for some time that the Coho salmon are most frequently found in 52 to 56 degree Fahrenheit water. The salmon also prefer water with a high concentration of food. By using an airplane and a high precision radiation thermometer, indirect water temperature measurements can be made in a short period of time, even over large areas of ocean. In the new study, a specially-equipped airplane makes a three-hour low-level flight over the test area each day. The project covers the near shore area be tween Cape Lookout south to Seal Rock. .. " ^ Yogi says ‘true yoga ’ is hard work for solutions to our social problems By THERESA SCARBOROUGH Of the Emerald “If something is good for you, do it. If it is good for you and the community and the world, do it right away, immediately. If it is bad, for you or the community or the world, leave it for tomorrow,” said Dadajii (brother) Yatiishvarananda Avadhuta, a spiritual teacher from India who spoke Friday evening at the Newman Center on “Yoga and Inner Peace.” Avadhuta warned people against entering into spiritual meditation for escape, ex plaining, “We are both internal and external. We should not forget the society...it is we who have to work hard to bring solutions to social problems.” “True yoga means progress of all natures, spiritual, economic and societal,” Avadhuta said. He explained that human society is one and indivisible and we have to move together, collectively. “We are all in the same boat. Some are in the front, some are in the back, that’s all,” he said. Avadhuta has been in this country two years and is in charge of the organizational aspects of the more than 100 chapters of the Ananda Marga Yoga Society in the United States. There are also chapters in 30 other countries. They are devoted to self-realization and service to humanity, according to Avadhuta. y Greek freighter vanishes RAVENNA, Italy (UPI) — The Italian navy began a search Sunday night for a Greek freighter reported in distress in the Adriatic Sea off Italy’s northeastern coast. They said authorities in the northeastern port of Ravenna received a distress signal from the 9,426-ton Greek freighter Niriis. Radio contact was made with the freighter shortly afterwards and the captain reported that shifted cargo was causing the ship to list heavily to one side, officials said. Navy boats were dispatched to the position radioed by the ship’s operator but they found no trace of the Niriis. Repeated efforts to contact the ship by radio failed, authorities said. The Niriis was last reported 25 to 30 nautical miles off Port Garibaldi, about 25 miles north of Ravenna.
