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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1981)
Applications for foreign service exam are available Application forms for the Dec. 5 foreign service exam are available now at the career planning and placement center Applicants tor the exam must be United States citizens, at least 20 years old and available for jobs in the United States and overseas. In addition, permanent employment requires proficiency in at least one foreign language by the end of the tour-year probationary period No specific educational background is required, alth ough a knowledge of United States history, government and culture and foreign and domestic affairs will help in passing the exam, says Sandy Heins, education placement coordina tor for career planning and placement Students who pass the written exam will be eligible for an all-day assessment that includes a vanety of simulation techniques, interviews and appraisals Hems says that 4.200 of 13.000 nationwide applicants passed last December's exam Successful applicants serve as career candidates during the probationary period An overview of foreign service careers will be included in a government employment workshop offered by career planning and placement Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the EMU The Educational Testing Service must receive applica tions by Oct 23. For more information and applications, contact career planning and placement at 686-3235, Room 246 Susan Campbell Hall Ohman to highlight annual high school press conference Oregon Attorney General David Frohnmayer and editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman will headline the 55th annual Oregon High School Press Conference on Wednesday Nearly 1.500 high school and junior high school journalists from around the state are ex pected to attend the full day of lectures, tours and workshops The conference also will feature a writing contest Frohnmayer will hold a news conference for delegates at 1:30 p m in EMU Room 167 A former University law professor and a specialist in open meeting laws, Frohnmayer will speak on student press law before ans wering questions from students Ohman will give the confer ence's keynote address at 2:30 p m in the EMU Ballroom His talk, which is free and open to the public, will include a slide show demonstration of car tooning techniques Ohman, whose home-base Imported Coffee & Tea l>\ the jHHintl or In the cup Kinko’s 144 "S'M "M I 13th Bean ot the Month Excelsior Blend newspaper is the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, began his car tooning career on his high school newspaper in Minneso ta As a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, his cartoons attracted national at tention and were reprinted in the New York Times, the Wa shington Post and Newsweek Only a few weeks after becoming editorial cartoonist for the Dispatch, he was select ed to replace Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Jeff McNelly by the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate At 20, Ohman already has been interviewed in magazine and newspaper articles and on a morning talk show Voelz to speak at rally ‘Title IX awareness week’ info booth, rally planned An information booth in the EMU lobby and a rally in the EMU courtyard wMI mark ‘ Title IX Awareness Week,” which begins today and runs through Friday The event is co-sponsored by the National Women Students Coalition, the Women's Resource and Referral Service and the ASUO According to Julie St Clair of the Women s Resource and Referral Service Awareness Week' is designed to tell people what Title IX is, and what is being done, to diminish the coverage of Title IX and lessen its effectiveness.” "The Reagen administration wants to do away with it (TitleIX), " St Clair says Title IX, signed into law by Pres Nixon in 1972, outlaws exclusion on the basis of gender to anyone who wishes to participate in any educa tional program or activity that receives federal financial assistance Its biggest effects have been within intercollegiate athletic departments The rally, scheduled for noon Thursday, will feature a number of local feminist speakers in eluding State Rep. Margie Hendriksen D-40, Eugene City Council member Cynthia Wooten, Assistant Athletic Director Chris Voelz and Sherry Oeser, from the Affirmative Action Office. Heidi Banke, a local feminist singer and ' guitarist, will provide entertainment at the rally. The information booth will be open all week and will provide information on a number of issues and services of special significance to women. St Clair says that women are reaffirming their concerns on Title IX and other feminist issues because "the progress women have made may be thrown out the door in the next five to 10 years." She says she hopes that activities during the week will make people aware of this, and will encourage women with complaints about things such as sexual harassment and sexist material in text books to come forward with them “Just this week we have gotten complaints on sexist class materials and sexist material in the ASUO class guide,” she says. 1 GET ALL THE HELP YOU CAN GET! 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