Summer conferences unaltered
Hilton may aid University
By Ann Portal
OfUnCmfald
A new Hilton on Eugene’s
horizon doesn't scare the coor
dinator of the University's sum
mer conference program At all.
Marge Ramey, assistant
housing director, says she wel
comes the 276-room hotel, hub
of the city's emerging confer
ence center.
"It just gives everything a
better dimension having that
beautiful hotel there Not every
one wants to stay in a dorm
room," Ramey says.
The University's summer
conference program brought 76
groups to the University last
summer and generated more
than $650,000 for the housing
department. The profits are
used partially to subsidize dorm
rates
Jaimie Brothers, convention
manager of the Eu
gene-Springfield Convention
and Visitors Bureau, Inc., says
she doesn’t foresee any com
petition between the University
and the Hilton. Each serves very
different needs, she says.
The visitors’ bureau solicits
state, regional and national
conventions for the Eugene
Springfield area, and Brothers
says a group’s needs dictate
where the convention will be
held
Many groups traditionally
hold their entire convention at
college campuses, while some
prefer a combination of hotel
housing and campus meeting
rooms, she says.
“They’ll compliment each
other,’’Brothers says. "It makes
for a very attractive package ”
The Hilton and its conference
center will help solve transpor
tation problems, Ramey says.
One group last summer was
housed at the University but had
to hold meetings at the Lane
County Fairground, which has
larger meeting areas than the
University, she says.
Penny Shephard, catering
manager at the Hilton, says she
and Ramey will work together
closely. Many will have different
activities at both places, she
says.
“There’s no question in my
mind that they compliment each
other.”
Booking at the University for
this summer is “very busy,”
Ramey says. It may even be a
record season for the program,
which is entering its seventh
year
One of the biggest confer
ences scheduled, a man
agement training program for
Nike employees, has rented
Autzen Stadium, McArthur
Court and Hayward Field, and
Nike also has made some sum
mer arrangements with the Hil
ton.
“It really enhances our offer
ings," Ramey says.
Club plans fundraisers for trip
to UN simulation conference
The University's chapter of the Model United
Nations of the Far West is gearing up for its main
activities of the year, says fundraising chairman
Steve Bender
A Saturday night showing of the music
documentary “Woodstock'' will be one of the two
fundraisers this week and next. Funds will be used
to help the club attend this year’s annual United
Nations simulation conference The movie will be
shown at 5:45, 9 p.m., and midnight in 177 Law
rence, he says.
This year’s conference, sponsored by the
University of California at Long Beach, is being
held April 22-25 at the Marriott Hotel in Anaheim,
Calif
A second fundraiser will involve a booth in the
EMU next week collecting donations for the trip to
the conference and other activities. Students who
donate funds will eligible for a drawing of more
than 30 prizes donated by area merchants.
Prize-winners, who will win record albums,
dinners, plants, and many other things, will be
announced Jan, 22, Bender says.
The University Model United Nations, which
functions as both a club and a class, will be
sending 36 people by chartered bus to the con
ference at a cost of between $5,000 and $6,000,
he says.
Even after raising this sum, members still will be
required to pay about $50 and buy all of their own
food. Bender says. Estimates of the fundraisers’
proceeds are sketchy, but the club is optimistic,
he says.
Other activities of the chapter include hosting a
one-day northern regional conference at the law
school during spring vacation, attending two
regional conferences, holding a career day booth
this week, and sponsoring speakers, he says.
More information about the club is available in
823 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall.
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