Emphasizes ‘everyday details’
Class explores Soviet culture
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By CHARLENE BELL
Of the Emerald
Stalin raised a few eyebrows in Russia
during the 1920s with his ambitious social
program aimed at the “liquidation of illiter
acy,” and Russian Prof. Fruim Yurevich has
adopted a tamer version of Stalin’s idea in
his “Soviet Life and Culture” class.
Yurevich jokingly refers to the general
humanities course as the “liquidation of
illiteracy about the Soviet Union.”
Many universities offer courses in Soviet
studies, but the University is the “pioneer in
offering a course that provides a broad
emphasis on the everyday details of modern
Soviet life," Yurevich says.
“It is impossible to understand any prob
lem of world significance without first un
derstanding the USSR.”
The class attracts many students for ex
actly this reason. By examining the super
power’s culture, politics and economy,
students develop a keener understanding of
their own culture, Yurevich says.
Students are not required to take the
three-term sequence in order because new
topics are covered each term.
Yurevich, who obtained an American
citizenship last year, emigrated to the Unit
ed States in 1974 from Moscow, where he
taught English in a high school for gifted
children.
Yurevich has brought one tradition from
the Soviet classroom to his University class
— the oral final. At the end of the term, each
student must give a 10-minute oral final to
the instructor on a single aspect of Soviet
life.
Affectionately dubbed the “face the Rus
sian" final by the more nervous stuaents,
the test is intended to establish a one-to
one relationship between student and
teacher even though the class averages 100
students per term.
Yurevich says this aspect of his class also
gives students practice in coherent oral
expression.
"First-time students are usually nervous,
but I find that many returning students
actually grow to like it," he says.
Whenever possible, the course features a
Soviet guest lecturer. In the past, the
speakers have included Prof. Alexander
Yanov of the University of California at
Berkeley, an emigre publicist; Edward Kuz
netsov, a Jewish activist exchanged for
Soviet spies in 1979; and Valery Chalidze,
an exiled dissident and a founding member
of the Moscow Human Rights Committee.
Eugene jobs still scarce, survey shows
The Eugene-area employment climate
will remain chilly at least through June,
according to a survey conducted by a na
tional temporary employment service.
The majority of Eugene businesses
contacted either plan to reduce staffs or
expect no change in employee numbers,
says Manpower Temporary Services.
Of the 30 to 40 Eugene-area employers
polled, 33 percent are planning staff reduc
tions, 43 percent expect no change and
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only 17 percent plan to hire more em
ployees.
A similar survey conducted a year ago
showed 47 percent of responding em
ployers expected to hire more workers, 53
percent planned no change and none
planned staff reductions, according to John
Lueck, manager of Manpower’s Eugene
office.
“We re hoping the figures indicate (the
economy) is bottoming out and that it will
get better soon,” says Judith Manning,
Manpower office services representative.
“It’s a little bit better than it looked last
quarter, so that's encouraging.”
Public administrators told the grimmest
employment tale, Manning says. Nondura
ble goods manufacturers, educational in
stitutions and wholesale and retail mer
chants also are expecting to reduce their
staffs.
Transportation companies, insurance or
ganizations and mining companies are
some of the few firms planning to hire more
workers, Manning says.
Nationally, the number of job opportuni
ties appears to be increasing in nearly all
sectors except public service, the survey
showed.
Building contractors, transportation
companies and public utilities are planning
to hire many more workers than last year,
according to the survey. Durable and non
durable goods manufacturers expect
slightly improved employment trends, while
wholesale and retail merchants also are
optimistic about hiring.
Public service employers expect to con
tinue reducing their staffs because of the
current belt-tightening of federal, state and
local governments.
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