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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1978)
Chief Black Hawk said, be fore being executed: “That you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has re duced me to, is the wish of him who in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourselves."Chief, we don’t get it. Who is this guy that walks the native forests proud? If you’re going to make a last statement, the least you could do is make it grammatically clear. Celebrate Holocaust with the Jewish Student Union this Friday. We’ll have lots of fun watching disaster films and otherwise conjuring up horrible images. Admission free. Correction: Due to a typo graphical error, we accidently called Joe Benufrunk, candi date for ASUO mascot a pedantic, revolting imbecile deserving of death. Gee, we’re really sorry. The University Honors Col lege Magazine, the Clark Comer Literary Review, came out this week. It contained some poems destined to be come classics and national hits, and overall presents a fine example of abnormal psychol ogy in action. Honors college students have a lot of mental (Jfficulties, but they try to work A Typewriter Warmed In Hell By JOCK HATFIELD Of the Emerald them out. They keep on striving for absolutes. Here we have a student engrossed in an abso lute hunt. 'The Ultimate Horizon lies just past the margin of the last black hole in space," he writes. This is what makes honors col lege students so loveable, they always look to the Ultimate Horizon. They sing “To Dream the Impossible Dream" while alone in bathtubs, and add depth to discussions. There’s nothing like a last-black-hoie in space discussion to cheer up a dull evening. This author is an unusual specimen who is “forever collapsing in on my self as I sink into negative space.” He should see a chiropractor at the earliest op portunity, before his condition becomes pronounced. Another Honors College con tributor. offers a poem entitled “Animal Breath:” “The donkey’s breath Once warmed A new bom child Now the donkey rides With an old astride” This poem contains what among literary circles is known as an allusion. Writers spend a lot of time milking allusions. They go on safaries looking for them. They look for them in small drawers. Making allu sions can be fun. It’s plagerism. This poem, for ex ample, is a rewrite of a classic story about a little kid who made it big. It is best to ignore allusions, but they do offer in sight into a writer’s personality. In psychological terms this wri ter is an anal retentive with a deep fear of donkey riding and old men with wrinkles. Another magazine poet shows her versitality for analogies: “You sit behind your desk, pen in hand, trying to fill in the blanks Of your crossword-puzzle-life” It takes an astute writer to realize that life is in fact a crossword puzzle. We are just a bunch of blank spaces look ing for a thesaurus. This poet has a real talent. She goes on to talk about her problems with breakfast. “You wrap yourself in one of the vague Linen rags you call a dress Powder your fading com plexion with the skill of a mortician... At breakfast you pour stale cornflakes from the box. There are no fresh peaches for them — There never are.” That’s the problem with this world: stale cornflakes and no fresh peaches. By God, we won’t take it any more! This au thor has solved the universal question, and deserves com mendation. The uneducated might question what a cross word puzzle is doing eating cornflakes. Some may never figure it out, and may lapse into a coma. This is one of the hazards of reading poetry. Another contributor shows a sensitivity for the language up to par with Rod McKuen: “I like to drink, to pause sodden, strangely able to think The cheesecloth haze of mud dled muck cleared away," he writes. Even the uninterested pas serby can tell this author is a deep thinker. Anyone who thinks about sodden muddled cheesecloth muck deserves some credit. This author goes on to “float to the truth” while being “WISE ENOUGH NOT TO PEEP TOO CLOSE/Lest the flotsam of best, lost philanderings and platitudes squashed long ago/Rise from the uncon scious bilge.” The average person proba bly has never peeped at a flot sam of lost squashed philan derings. but this is under standable. Lost squashed philanderings are only found in the southern hemisphere, hanging around trees. U of O Ducks Basketball Team vs Eugene Kamikazies Exhibition Game Friday, May 5 8 p.m. ) Mac Court Tickets $2 Available at U of 0 Athletic Dept., EMU main desk, Total Mobility, 4060 Steward Rd., Medical Services, 2100 W. 11th, Eugene Parks office, 858 Pearl St., also, at the door. Presented by Eugene Parks & Recreation and ALERT as a kickoff to the Oregon Wheelchair Games May 6 & 7 Page 8 Job Fairies told positions and applicants increasing By RUSSELL LINEBARGER Of the Emerald Students attending the Job Faire on campus Wednesday, learned jobs are becoming more numerous, but so are the numbers of applicants. Al Murphy of the Oregon State Employment Division,told a group of prospective employees that some 4,OCX) persons currently employed under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) will be looking for work after June 10, when funding for many projects is terminated. Though CETA-funded positions provide experi ence and recommendations for future employment, at 200 applicants per position, getting a job involves “being at the right place at the right time,” Murphy said. But being in the right place at the right time should not be a matter of chance, he said. Seventy to 80 percent of all jobs are not advertised or contracted with different agencies. Therefore, prospective employees need to leam how to market their skills and “sell themselves,” Murphy advised. The services offered by the Oregon Employment Office include vocational counseling, career gui dance, placement assistance and veterans' assis tance. Murphy stressed that employers “want a per son who knows what he/she wants.” I -- Jack Royal of the Career Planning and Place ment Office also participated at the Job Faire suggesting the heaviest time for recruiting is in the fall and winter. But, he admitted students hired from the recruitment are minimal. He said the interviewing experience offered by Career Planning and Placement of the University provides valuable feed-back for the student. The re cruiter informs counselors at the center how the stu dent performed during the interview. As a result communication between the counslor and the stu dent, the student gains valuable insight into his or her hirability” from the professional standpoint, Royal said. Royal encouraged students to take advantage of the workshops offered through the center. Work shops are available in resume writing, job searching and job interviewing. Orientation to the center is held weekly at 3:30 p.m. Thursdays in Susan Campbell Hall. The Job Faire, catering to some 200 students during the day, was termed “very successful” by Sharon Murphy, organizer and coordinator. It was sponsored jointly by the Wallace School of Community Services and Public Affairs and the University Veterans Association. Murphy began con tacting public and private business in January and 20 different city, county, state, and inter-state agencies of the original 40 she contacted showed for the semi nar. "I NEXT BEER GARDEN Friday, May 12th 4-7:00 ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD!!! bud on tap 12 oz glass pitcher $1.50
