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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1982)
dips i University desires hosts for foreigners The University is looking for local families to participate in its early orientation program for foreign students in September. Families are needed to meet students upon their arrival in Eugene on Sept. 16 and to provide one night's lodging before bringing them to campus for the start of the three-day orientation on Sept. 17. Students will live in University residence halls during the ses sion. The friendship families as sume no financial responsibility but are asked to continue the friendship throughout the year. Among activities planned for the students and friendship families is a picnic on Sept 19 at Armitage Park Families willing to take part this fall are asked to contact the University international services office, 330 Oregon Hall, 686-3206 Junior honor club initiates members Twenty-four sophomores were sworn into Druids, a junior honorary society, Thursday night at McMorran House, the official residence of the Univer sity president Druids is a service and social organization for juniors who have a grade point average of at least three point and have demonstrated leadership abili ties and other attributes. It used to be limited to ten men, but now has opened up to women. Students initiated were: Glenda Ahn, Loren Chin, Dane Claussen, Daniel Cohen, Chris tine Doehle, Lisa Epidendio, Kristine Gittens, Daniel Gos sack, Kimberly Hamilton, Barton Hill. Julie Meander, Lisa New ton, Douglas Noland, Wendy Popkin, Paul Rudinsky, Peter Scarpa, Alan Scearce, Leslie Shults, Mary Sipprell, Gregory Steweart, Jill Summers, Susan Terrill, Brenda Thorton, and Christina Vega. Further information about the organization is available from its adviser, Housing Director Dan Williams, at 686-4277. Lecture on gorillas to benefit museum A slide show and lecture on the habits and behavior of mountain gorillas in Africa will be given Wednesday at the University natural history mu seum. Proceeds from the event, which begins at 7 p.m., will go toward supporting the Universi ty museum. The cost is $3 for adults and $2 for senior citizens and for children under 12. The slide show, presented by University graduate and anth ropologist Stuart Perimeter, will include some close-up pictures of his "gorilla friends" that were published in "National Geogra phic" and "Stern," a German magazine The event is one in a series of fund-raising activities for the natural history museum. Some $13,000, more than one-third of its $34,000 goal, has already been raised. This means that the museum's doors will remain open to the public after June 30. Each dollar up to $15,000 con tributed to the museum is being matched by an anonymous donor. Contreras named to summer position ASUO Pres. C.J. Balfe last week appointed Alan Contreras, former ASUO vice president for program administration, to be ASUO executive vice president until Sept. 1. Contreras was appointed Jan. 9 by then ASUO Pres. Rich Wil kins to be chief programs ad ministrator when Jim Edmun son resigned. He is also a former ASUO budget director and former Incidental Fee Committee member. He has also served as campus campaign chairer for defeated city council candidate Susan Sowards, assistant director of the Survival Center, chairer of a 1978 Lane County Citizens’ Ad visory Committee on Natural Resources, and in other capacities on campus and in the community. Contreras says he was hired because he will be in Eugene during the summer and "because of my familiarity with the office and what the pre sident does. “I will be a sort of general resource person for everyone in there (the ASUO office),” he says. Balfe was unavailable for comment. Contreras will graduate spring term with a bachelor's degree in political science and enter the University law school. jzxm Food Service The DELI Selected vegetarian sandwiches available OPEN 11- 8 pm MON.-FRI. 12- 7 pm Sat and Sun. in the fishbowl Don’t slip away unnoticed... Send a Spring Fling TODAY! Bring it to: 300 EMU, UO Bookstore, EMU Main Desk . This information is for the Emerald, it w> not appear in the ad MAME:_ PHONE: DATE: June 7, 1982 CATEGORY: Spring Flings MESSAGE: 15 words for $1.50 DEADLINE: I p.m. June 4 Coming June 7
