Faces in the Crowd"™
Freshman president active, happy
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Chester Trabucco
Photo by Greg Clark
By MARY DON
Of the Emerald
“The first two weeks, I’d leave the house and
walk across the campus to the bookstore and never
see anyone I recognized. When I first got here I’d
walk and walk and walk all over the place. And then
I’d go home and if the few friends I had then weren’t
around I wouldn’t have anyone to talk to."
“It was lonely. I kept wondering, what the hell am
I doing here?”
That’s Chester Trabucco describing the fresh
man experience. You know how it goes. The first
month or so in a new place you feel pretty alone. The
campus doesn’t seem particularly friendly then.
But Trabucco did change his mind — probably
most new students do. For him, the way around
freshman isolation was getting involved.'
“I started to make friends in the house, to meet
people at functions. Playing football on the intramural
team helped a lot. And I really met a lot of people
when I was campaigning door to door.
Right before Thanksgiving I realized, it’s going
to be easy staying here."
Trabucco is the freshman class president and a
member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He is fairly happy
with his decision to come to the University.
Trabucco is from Astoria. He says he didn’t give
much thought to college until late in his senior year
when a home-town friend invited him to Eugene to
visit the University and his fraternity.
And Trabucco liked what he saw. In September
he moved to Eugene, pledged Sigma Chi, and enrol
led in classes. Right now he says he can see himself
double majoring in sociology and some area of busi
ness, maybe accounting.
“In my sociology classes we’ve talked about
social strata, levels of society with their own roles and
rules. In business, it’s concentration of wealth, the
abuses that can happen in a capitalist economy. It
makes you want to say, that can’t happen to me. It’s a
whole awareness that’s interesting. I think you have
to be aware of the patterns, to watch out that you
don’t just fall into them.”
As freshman class president, Trabucco puts in
office hours each week at the class office headquar
ters in Suite 5 of the EMU addition. Class office
headquarters is a jazzy new desk with a push-button
phone. The desk is crowded with tacks of manila
folders, campus mail envelopes and memo pads.
This week Trabucco has been rounding up
freshmen to canvass for food. The food drive, which
is this Sunday, is a senior class project in which
the other class councils are helping out. Trabucco
thinks service projects are important.
i nope to De involved in community service like
this throughout my life. I enjoy working with people—
that’s whv I ran for this office and it’s why I’m here.”
Trabucco ssems to enjoy unusual fund-raising
projects. In high school he raised the most pledges
for a dance marathon benefit and then he and his
partner won the marathon — they danced for 28
hours straight.
Last fall he ran a mile in the UO-OSU Muscular
Dystrophy Run-a-thon, a marathon race from
Eugene to Corvallis for the Civil War football game. "L
didn’t run too fast, though,” he now says remorse
fully, “only about 5:37.1 was going to run the last mile
too, but we were behind by that time and we had
Prefontaine do it instead.” Oregon won the event by
five yards.
Trabucco was also instrumental in getting spon
sors for the event. He and senior class president Jim
Davis spent a day in Portland recruiting pledges from
alums. They brought in nearly $600, a fair portion of
the total amount raised in the Run-a-thon.
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Monday February 24 7:30 p.m. Room 167 EMU
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Carlos Calderon on the UFW
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Wednesday February 26 7:30 p.m. Room 167 EMU
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