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Oregon daily
emerald
Volume 85, Number 42
Eugene, Oregon
Tuesday, November 1, 1983
Deadlines
extended
Students wishing to make last
minute changes in their course load
and grade option should not despair
when they find the doors to Oregon
Hall locked Nov. 11, the registrar's of
fice says.
Three deadlines — grade option
change, variable credit change, and
dropping a course with a "W"
recorded — fall on the date, which is
also Veteran's Day, a federal holi
day.
The office will extend the deadline
until Nov. 14 as the fairest solution to
the problem.
Union members ratify contract
GTFs support two-year proposal unanimously
By Doug Nash
Of (he Emerald
Members of the University's Graduate
Teaching Fellows Federation have ratified a
new two-year contract, the union's presi
dent announced Sunday.
Slightly more than one-third of the
union's 320 members turned out to vote for
the contract, with no negative votes record
ed, GTFF Pres. Brenda Cochrane said.
“There were no surprises," she said,
noting voter turnout was about as strong as
previous years. "Nobody voted no."
The union, which is the only GTF bargain
ing unit of its kind in the country, had a
table in the EMU lobby last week to attract
new members and to seek ratification of the
contract. Final tallies were taken Thursday
night in the EMU Forum, Cochrane said.
The contract does not contain a wage in
crease, although it does eliminate the 3 per
cent workload and wage cut enacted last
year. GTF wages fall on four different levels
determined by experience, from $4,464 an
nually for a starting teacher's aide to $6,329
for a more advanced student. GTF's work
an average of 17Vi hours per week, she
added.
And the union's sliding scale dues
schedule, which is based on the GTF's wage
level, was adapted to the University's new
full-time equivalency structure, Cochrane
said.
"Basically we made it so that people pay
the same amount people used to pay," she
said.
Depending on their salary, CTFs pay from
$5.25 to $6.25 monthly, she said. All
teacher's aides must contribute to the
union, not just members, she added.
"All the benefits we negotiate go to
nonmembers as well as members,"
Cochrane said. "But only members can
vote."
Although she could not give a specific
date, Cochrane said the contract will be of
ficially signed by the union and the Univer
sity administration sometime in the next
few weeks
Students present easy target for rip-offs
By Debbie Howlett
Of the Emerald
Bill Kittredge leans back in a frumpy, oak chair. "The
student," he says as he sagely strokes the short begin
nings of his beard, "is just a dollar sign. You're just
dollar signs walking in."
Kittredge, the University's student advocate, is speak
ing of Eugene area businesses, especially in the University
area. It can indeed, Kittredge says, be a tangled web that
some students find spun for them,
Larry Bagby, a University graduate student in history,
says he has run right into the web of a stereo dealer. Expo
National Sales Liquidators.
According to Bagby, who sells the stereo equipment to
local businesses such as Old Taylor's tavern, he was
"physically threatened" by "the owner of the business —
joe something" when he tried to return a cassette deck. Joe
Tutrone is the owner of Expo National Sales Liquidators.
"Let me tell you about him (Bagby)," Tutrone says. "He
comes in here and buys from me because I sell so cheap
and then sells it to the kids on campus for twice what I sell
it for.
"He buys it from us for $59 and sells it for $159 — who's
rippin' who off?" Tutrone asks.
"... He's going to go to the Better Business Bureau and
he's gonna do this and he's gonna do that — go ahead,
what do you want me to do about that?" Tutrone says. "If
he's got complaints he should take care of them just the
way we do."
Bagby says he was drawn to the store because of an
advertisement in the Oregon Daily Emerald that portrayed
a well-known brand stereo turntable. When Bagby went to
the store, located at 720 Garfield St., on the afternoon of
Sept. 27, he says he asked a clerk if he might see the
turntables.
The clerk went to the back of the store and the
"manager" came back to tell Bagby there was a mistake in
the advertisement that incorrectly listed the turntable and
the price, Bagby says. The "manager" told Bagby the store
did stock turntables in a higher price range, but that those
turntables would not be in until Wednesday, Bagby says.
"It reeked of a scam,” Bagby says. "It just smelled like
fish."
Bagby says he later decided to phone Expo National
Sales Liquidators to ask about buying some cassette decks.
He says he was told the store had three brands in stock,
Emerson, Sanyo and Electro. Bagby says he went into the
store and was told, by the "manager" that the only brand
the store had was Electro.
"It made me madder than hell," Bagby says. But Bagby
says he decided to buy the cassette deck anyway and that
once he got it home, some of the features did not work and
some of the features on the demonstrator model were not
included.
The "right VU meter" was "deader than a doornail" and
the bias switch was broken, Bagby says. He also says
there was no Dolby or metal tape bias capability on the
deck. He says he then called the store back and told a clerk
the merchandise wasn't satisfactory. Bagby says the clerk
tried to get him to come back to the store and "trade (the
casette deck) up" for a more expensive model.
Bagby phoned Emerald advertising director, Darlene
Gore, to inquire about the advertisement which appeared
in the Sept. 26 issue of the Emerald. The ad, placed by Joe
Tutrone, owner of Expo National Sales Liquidators, showed
a picture of a stereo turntable with the words "National
Turntable and Cartridge $59.99." The turntable was one of
19 items listed in the 3 column x 15 inch advertisement. It
ran on page 4B.
Bagby told Core that a store employee had told him the
Emerald had "screwed up" the advertisement of the
turntable, Bagby says.
Gore says the advertisement was produced exactly as it
would appear in the paper and then "proofed" — checked
for errors — by an employee of Expo National Sales Li
quidators. Any mistakes in advertisements are normally
caught when an advertiser "proofs" the ad, Gore says.
But Tutrone says he was out of town when the ad was
proofed and that an employee without any knowledge of
the store's stock checked the ad.
"Employees can normally accurately check an ad," Gore
says.
Tutrone points out other failings in the ad The ad was
not "reversed," printed in white letters on a black
background, nor was another item listed correctly.
Other copies of advertisements Tutrone produced were
reversed.
But Gore says she has received no complaints from Ex
po National Sales Liqiudators about the ad. And Tutrone
says he never called to complain about the ad he had payed
for in advance.
"All it takes is someone to walk in the store and we re
willing to back up what we sell," Tutrone says. But Bagby
says that's not quite accurate.
"He (Tutrone) said they have a no cash refund policy.
He told me if I didn't like it I could just stick it up mine,"
Bagby says.
Continued on Page 3
Are the
Oregon Ducks
quacking up?
Homecoming may be all its crack
ed up to be, at least if the Ducks
"hatching" here have anything to
say about it. This egg-opening
ceremony in Springfield marked the
kickoff of homecoming week, with
events scheduled throughout the
week for alumni, students and area
residents.
Springfield, Eugene and Universi
ty dignitaries participated in the
ceremony, including Springfield
Mayor John Lively, Eugene Mayor
Gus Keller and University Pres. Paul
Olum.
Photo by Dave Kao