Step-savers:
From check cashing to childcare,
EMU offers variety of services
Need to buy a bus ticket for that
weekend retreat but don't have
time to rush to the bus depot or
don't like waiting in line? Need to
cash a check but don't want to
run to the bank?
By DINA MILES
Of the Emerald
Relax, the EMU Main Desk
can meet those needs, and more,
for you. In fact, the Main Desk of
fers a variety of student services
which can save time and money.
At the ticket window just to the left
of the desk, for example, students
can purchase American Express
Travelers Checks (during regular
banking hours), or make reserva
tions for Shakespeare or Stage II
plays in Ashland or purchase
Greyhound bus tickets. You can
also pay EWEB and telephone
bills at the window.
The window also provides
check cashing services, a lost
and found center and forms for
Oregon Daily Emerald classified
ads. Most local and campus con
cert tickets may be purchased at
the window, too.
In addition, the Main Desk is a
handy place to drop off film for
developing or to have keys dupli
cated. You can also choose from
a variety of assorted student sup
plies such as candy, books,
cards, magazines, tennis balls,
cigars, newspapers or typing
paper.
But aside from the Main Desk,
other helpful University services
are available to students with a
vanety of needs — from health
and child care to insurance ser
vices.
The Child Care Center on the
ground floor of the EMU will offer
a daytime pre-school session this
summer for children from 2 and
one-half to 4 and one-half years
old. Registration was June 10 for
the eight-week session, but ac
cording to director Edd Casto, the
center will accept students on a
drop-in basis anytime except the
first and last weeks of the ses
sion.
The cost is 85 cents per hour
for parents who are students and
$1 per hour for non-student par
ents. The center is state and fed
erally certified and offers the chil
dren a variety of activities as well
as free play time, snacks, lunch
and a rest period.
Casto says the center will limit
its enrollment to 16 children at
any one time. He adds that the
center will register perhaps twice
that number for the total enroll
ment in the program. The center’s
operating hours will depend upon
parents’ schedules, and will be
worked out according to hours of
greatest demand.
One leading “care giver,” as
Casto terms them, will supervise
the session. She will be joined by
several work-study students who
have been screened and have
worked previously at least one
year with that age group.
While the center usually offers
a toddler program as well as one
for pre-schoolers, Casto says the
summer session will only focus
on the younger children. “We re
trying to draw in the 2 and one
half and 4 and one-half age
groups. At 4 and one-half and
older, we don't feel we can meet
the needs of the older child as
we’ve got too many structures’
(in the day care curriculum).”
For parents who need toddler
care this summer, however, the
Child Care and Development
Center (CCDC), located at 1511
Moss St., offers an alternative —
but parents should hurry. Enroll
ment is limited and registration
has already begun for summer.
CCDC offers child care and
teaching for many age groups
and the summer session will fea
ture its expansion to four different
houses for each group. Care is
provided for infants through
school-age children.
The charge is $10.40 per day
for infants and $8.60 per day for
three-to six-year-olds. The center
is currently taking applications for
fall term.
The curriculum offered varies
for different age groups but all
groups have planned activities
and certain learning skills, such
as reading or math. Skilled
teachers supervise the care.
The CCDC has a steering
board comprising a parent of
children from each age group to
discuss policy decisions. Both
CCDC and the Child Care Center
operate under EMU authority.
For children who want to exp
lore their talents in ceramics, the
Craft Center in the ground floor
of the EMU will offer a class in
children’s ceramics and pottery
as part of its summer schedule.
The class will be open to six to
12-year-olds for $12.
The center also offers students
a multitude of crafts skills ranging
among classes in jewelry, batik,
textiles, silk screen, basketry,
felt-making, stained glass,
frame-loom weaving, quilting,
photography, bike repair and
Students urged to ESCAPE
Students in ESCAPE don’t
become involved just because
they want to get away from cam
pus.
By DINA MILES
Of the Emerald
Another reason is wanting to
help others in community service
agencies and elementary or sec
ondary schools. As Susannah
Malarkey, new director of ES
CAPE (Every Student Caring
About Personalized Education)
explains, "it's a people-oriented
program." And the extra accent is
on “personalized.”
As a CSPA student, Malar
key was working in child care
when she began her involvement
with ESCAPE. Through her ef
forts to find tutors for children who
were learning English as a sec
ond language, Malarkey heard
about the ESCAPE program and
found some volunteers who
wanted to help in a child care
center.
"We found a church,” Malar
key remembers, “with a room
where we could set up the
center." She then obtained a
license for the operation of the
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“I supervised the ESCAPE volun
teers for the center,” she says,
“and they got to know the kids
really well. The ESCAPE stu
dents were willing to learn and
enthusiastic."
The center was quite small,
serving a limited number of chil
dren, but Malarkey says the ES
CAPE students enjoyed the ex
perience all the more. "It was a
Mini United Nations,' ” she says,
because the volunteers included
two male students, a chemistry
major, one undeclared major stu
dent and one exchange student,
all working together to teach En
glish to foreign children. When it
was over, she says, the students
felt proud. “They realized they
made a difference."
This feeling of accomplish
ment apparently affects most
other ESCAPE student volun
teers, for Malarkey says more
than half of the students who par
ticipate in the field work program
during a term in the school year
come back again the following
term. Why?
“They’re respected,” Malar
key explains, adding that they
feel like they are a part of a work
ing group, not separate “student
volunteers.” When they feel so
needed, she says, “they put out
more."
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Susannah Malarkey
enameling. In addition, a new
class in stone cutting and tumbl
ing will be offered.
Membership in the center is
open to summer session students
for $3, and $5 for students who
were enrolled during spring term
of this year. The class fee is
separate from the membership
fee and enrollment is limited.
The facility is open to students, ■
staff, faculty and their spouses
during the scheduled summer
hours, which are posted on the
Craft Center door. A complete
bulletin which details all the clas
ses is available at registration or
outside the EMU Ballroom.
If all these activities or the heat
of summer begin to get you down,
the Student Health Center at
13th and Agate Street will be
ready to help. Summer hours will
be from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every
day, except weekends; no
emergency services or infirmary
care will be available.
The center will be open June
20 through summer session. It
will be open after the session
ends for law students only, who
attend school on a semester
basis.
Regular doctor care will be av
ailable as well as specialists in
gynecology, psychology and in
ternal medicine.
Finally, for those who need in
surance to help ease the crunch,
the ASUO offers a plan for stu
dents and dependents. The
group plan gives the student a
free choice of physician and cov
ers the policyholder anywhere,
not merely for accidents sus
tained at the University.
The policy may be purchased
yearly, but is also available for
summer session only. The cost is
$21.80 for a student with no de
pendents, $48.25 for a student
with one dependent and $67 for
two dependents. Insurance may
be purchased through July 1 at
cashier windows in Oregon Hall.
A complete explanation of the
plan is available at the Student
Health Center.
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