Travel, storage plans should be made now
By Marian Green
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"The sooner, the better’’ is the advice most local
travel agencies and related businesses are giving
students making their summer vacation plans.
Students need to make plane reservations and
storage space rentals in the next week or so to ensure a
space.
"We’re finding problems already for making spaces
available," says Dorothy Schwarz, owner of University
Travel.
Flights to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and
Seattle fill quickly because they're often “jump-off”
points to East Coast destinations, Schwarz says
"We always recommend making reservations ear
ly," she says "The advantage of doing it ahead of time
is if the fare does go down, a student can bring in the
ticket and get it re-issued," for the lower price.
Also, purchasing the ticket early "is the only way to
insure the price of the ticket."
Schwarz says many airlines are making price
adjustments every two weeks or so.
"It's been changing so rapidly that we find it
impossible to call people back" to notify them of the
difference, she says Schwarz suggests calling the
airline or ticket agent a week before departure to verify
flight number and price.
And more people seem to be flying rather than
taking the train because of special airline deals, she
adds. "I haven’t noticed too much of a problem with
train reservations.”
Eugene Travel reports the same situation with
flights to San Francisco, Los Angeles and the East
Coast filling rapidly.
"If they want to go cheaply, they should get them
now.” says Terri Guptill, Eugene Travel ticket agent.
Buses such as Greyhound and Trailways offer daily
departures to almost any destination but take no
reservations. Officials suggest calling for departure
information and arriving an hour or so ahead of time to
ensure a seat
Grey Rabbit Ride Center offers cheap bus tran
sportation alternative to conventional travel.
Beginning in June, trips to San Francisco leave
Sundays and Thursdays from Ferry Street and East
Broadway (next to Dunkin' Donuts) at 10 p.m. for $35.
Grey Rabbit Seattle trips leave Mondays at 7 a.m.
for Seattle for $16.
For a more extensive departure list, call 683-5628.
Trailers are going fast for students -who plan to
drive home for the summer and want to rent a trailer for
their belongings.
"The sooner they get in here, the better chance
they have of getting a trailer," says Bruce Keith, of
U-Haul. “We're having to go out and get them" from
other trailer outlets, Keith says.
He suggests making reservations two weeks in
advance. Reservations require a small deposit.
The slumping local economy is to blame for the
trailer shortage, he says.
"There are no jobs here," Keith says. "They’re all
packing up and moving south or north."
Local storage businesses say students should
begin looking now for a place to store winter gear until
next school year.
"I'm running right now about 86 percent full," says
Lisa Erickson of U-Haul storage in Springfield. She
suggests renting storage space now before they’re all
taken. A 5-by-7-foot room rents for $14 a month plus a
$20 deposit, with prices increasing with size.
Several other storage companies reported similar
circumstances.
Bachelor’s degrees recruited
By Debbie Howiett
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This article is the second in a
five-part series examining car
eer opportunities for Universi
ty students.
Finding the "perfect” job
can be difficult for a bac
calaureate degree holder
fresh out of the academic
world, but finding the perfect
job for graduate students is
sometimes tougher
The difference between
placing students with bachelor
degrees and placing master s
and doctorate candidates also
lies in recruiting Companies
come to the campus to hire
"enormous amounts” of un
dergraduates
Most of the graduate
students are left to do the
‘■footwork" by themselves,
with what ever initiative they
can work up
Figures for graduate
students aren't kept per se.
and most placement is done
interdepartmentally, says Ge
rald Moseley, associate
provost for student affairs
The master's degree and
doctoral degree holders are in
“more refined, narrow fields,”
Mosely says And most of the
jobs, especially jobs for doc
torates, are found through
"connections" in departments
at the University and
universities around the
country
“When you get into those
small defined areas, like with
PhDs, everyone knows ever
yone else," Moseley says,
adding that those contacts
can include a number of leads
in a job search
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Most of the "higher,'' higher
education people are
channeled back into the u
niversities to teach or into
private or public research
"It's my impression they're
tunneled into larger research
oriented companies or back
into higher education," Mo
seley says.
Other outlets for graduate
level job applicants are
through large metropolitan
papers or specialized publica
tions, such as the Chronicle of
Higher Eduacation.
Moseley says he still finds
that most graduate students
are "applicants of academia,"
in that most jobs are at univer
sities, teaching or doing re
search.
There is a placement office
for law students to avail them
selves of, on the third floor of
the law school. The office
looks like it's big enough for a
few brooms and the mop
bucket and the staff consists
of one person.
But even with a placement
office, Jan Pruitt, the
placement coordinator and
the only staff member, says
"I don't place them — they
go out and find jobs on
their own."
Pruitt says that she basically
provides a few job leads for
students still in school and
then keeps track of the
students once they leave
One of the figures she keeps
track of is the "those qualified
and seeking employment” ca
tegory. Pruitt says that the
placement rate there is 96
percent while "gross”
placement figures, those in
"legally related” jobs, are
about 78 percent.
Amazon budget approved
The Incidental Fee Commit
tee, in its final meeting of the
1981-82 fiscal year Monday,
completed all of its unfinished
business just six hours before
the new IFC officially took over.
The first item on the new IFC
agenda will be finalizing the
now-old IFC’s proposal to the
athletic department concerning
incidental fee subsidies and
ticket prices.
The IFC approved a proposal
alloting $800 to the firm of
Business Development As
sociates to coordinate staff
training and transition for the
new ASUO Executive staff and
IFC.
In addition, the IFC gave final
approval of a $1,411 proposed
budget for the Amazon Com
munity Tenants for next year.
Committee members also
voted 5-0 to table a proposal
which would create a new posi
tion of Student Activities Ad
viser, leaving the matter to the
new IFC.
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