The Friday
Edition
gets the
last laugh
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Oregon daily
emerald
Friday, November 18, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 54
Accounting
students ace
national exam
By Paul S/ydelko
Of the Emerald
Statistics show University graduates
pertormed well above the national
average on the Uniform Certified Public
Accounting exam.
Statistics available for the first time to
the University accounting department
show University bachelor's degree
students ranked second nationally in the
practice section on the May, 1982 test.
They scored ninth in the theory sec
tion, department officials say.
University graduates with master's
degrees were ranked third and eleventh
in the theory and practice sections.
The National Association of State
Boards of Accountancy ranked the 253
schools who had 10 or more candidates
taking the exam.
The department's quality is due to a
"very rough screening process for entry
and exit from both the undergraduate
and MBA levels," says Paul Frishkoff, ac
counting professor and former accoun
ting department head.
"We teach our students to think better
than a lot of places do,” Frishkoff says.
Although accounting professors
generally do not teach directly for the
CPA exam, students pick up exam-taking
skills to merely survive the program, he
says.
"The accounting profession itself is
rigorous, so you should expect rigorous
training," says Sandra Mallon, an ac
counting student who took this
November's exam.
Because old CPA exam questions are
found in textbooks and classroom tests,
students do get some orientation into
what will be asked of them on the exam,
Mallon says.
Sydney Aiello, another accounting stu
dent who took the exam a few weeks
ago, says the department gave her a
"good foundation" for the exam.
Three years ago the department
developed a special CPA exam review
class, offered during the four weeks
preceding the exam. The review class
may give students the discipline needed
to pass the exam, Frishkoff says.
Aiello says she gained a special insight
through the 60 hours of concentrated
review class. Students learn which areas
they need to specialize their studying in
the weeks leading up to the exam, Aiello
says.
Gertrude Richmond has been tending the 300 or so ducks and geese who live in the Millrace for more than four years.
She's a duck's best friend
By Marianne Chin
(X the Emerald
There's one Eugene residenl who is
worried about how the ducks will do this
Saturday. But it's not the Oregon football
team that Gertrude Richmond is concern
ed about, it's the 300 or so ducks and
geese who make their home in the
Millrace off Franklin Boulevard.
For the past four years, Trudy, as her
friends call her, has been bringing food to
the wild birds during her lunch hours and
after work on weekdays. But today she
leaves for a vacation in New Mexico and
she's been worried about who will feed
the ducks when she is gone for about 10
days.
"A lot of people come when the
weather's good, but not when it's rainy,”
Trudy says. "It makes me feel terrible see
ing them there needing food."
Trudy was so concerned for the ducks
that she phoned the Animal Foundation,
an animal information organization with a
wild bird program, and asked if they knew
anyone who could feed the birds while
she was gone. When they could suggest
nobody, Trudy asked her friend Rita Simp
son if she could do it. Simpson agreed,
saying she "felt sorry for the poor things."
"I hale to ask anybody to do it. It's so
messy. My car looks like an old farmer's
with grain and bread all over," Trudy says.
To satisfy the hungry animals, Trudy
buys day-old bread from Williams Bakery
and cracked corn in 80-pound sacks. They
eat about 20 to 25 pounds of food a day,
according to her. She estimates she
spends about $100 a month feeding the
ducks.
"I give them whatever I can. I have no
new clothes, but then I don't need many,"
Trudy says.
Dressed in old white overalls, Trudy can
be found around noon carrying white
buckets of feed and surrounded by
screeching birds. "Come on boys and
girls. Where's Limpy and One-Eyef" she
calls. She doesn't hesitate to hand-feed
the goose who is blind in one eye or the
duck who can't walk.
Trudy brought four ducks who had a
disease c alled Bumblefoot to her home in
Fall Creek. The ducks couldn't walk, so
Trudy nursed them back to health with
antibiotics and better nutrition, and even
gave them DMSO, an anti-inflammatory
medication.
"Now they're all fine and living in my
pond," Trudy says.
Besides the ducks, Trudy also has three
dogs, 12 chickens and six cats, "all very
troublesome," at her home 20 miles out
side Eugene. Many of her pets were strays
she adopted.
Trudy described one incident when she
saw some kids throwing rocks at the
ducks.
"The ducks thought it was foetid so they
didn't leave. Someone in a canoe fished
out a duck that was killed by the kids. I
was furious at those people. The mother
was standing there and I asked her why
she was letting the kids do that. I called
the* security officers who gave them a
good talking-to. It made my blood boil,"
she says.
"I've always liked animals and wouldn't
have minded being a veterinarian, but
now I'm too old," says the 64-year-old
animal lover. Trudy graduated from the
University in I960 with a degree in
sculpture.
Because she will be retiring from her job
at Bohemia, Inc. in Eugene next year,
Trudy is worried about how the ducks will
survive without her.
"I won't be able to drive into town every
day to feed them," she said. "If you know
anybody who wants to do it . ..
Employee strike fails to collar Greyhound
By Michele Matassa
Of the Emerald
With contract negotiations still in a
deadlock, Greyhound Bus Lines hired new
employees and sent its "dogs" back out on
the road Thursday, while striking drivers
and terminal workers across the nation
barked up a storm of protest.
The first day of resumed service was
"relatively calm and orderly," according to
company spokesperson Leslie Klein, who
works in Greyhound's headquarters in
Phoenix, Ariz.
"There have been a few incidents across
the country, but 99.5 percent of our buses
have run on time and without incident,"
Klein says.
The Eugene terminal is running four
buses northbound through function City,
Corvallis, Albany, Salem and Portland, says
Barry Poysner, a local Greyhound
employee.
Routes south of Eugene probably won't
be added for another three months, which
is the company's goal to resume full ser
vice, Klein says.
Northbound buses leave Eugene at 8
a.m., 11:05 a.m.( 2:20 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Southbound buses terminating in Eugene
arrive here at 11 a.m., 3:25 p.m., 6:45 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m.
Greyhound, along with Trailways Inc., is
running all routes at half-price fare, Klein
says.
The reduced price is "an incentive to our
passengers, to let them know we're back
out there again," she says.
"And a lot of people are taking advantage
of it," Klein says. More than 2,000
passengers climbed aboard buses on the
company's first 208 runs, she says.
In Eugene, business is running smoothly,
Poysner says.
"A large amount of picketers" were
harassing drjvers here but no major pro
blems had occured," he says.
Amalgamated Transit Union represen
tatives are concerned about passenger safe
ty and the reputation of the company, says
Portland ATU officer Ed Perkins.
"We're somewhat shocked that the com
pany would risk the reputation we spent 50
years building as the premier carrier in the
country. Already, there have been some
very unfortunate occurrences in terms of
damage to the public and passengers,"
Perkins says.
Two buses on training runs were involved
in accidents that killed one driver and in
jured two people. It is unclear whether the
accidents were caused by the bus drivers,
according to news accounts.
"Given the short course of training that
these supposed replacements have had,
there's a lot more to come. We re trying to
make it very clear to the public that we're
not driving," Perkins says.
"We would encourage (people) not to
ride if they have any respect for their ex
istence," he says.
"Our position is that Greyhound can run
as many buses as they want all over the
country as long as nobody rides them,"
Perkins says.
He says the union usually trains drivers,
but now "desk jockeys apparently are train
ing them."
Greyhound officials insist drivers are
capable and bus rides today are as safe as
they've ever been.
Klein says 1,400 current employees walk
ed off the picket lines and reported for
work Thursday at 5 a.m. The company had
to hire 1,300 new workers, she says.
"We resumed operation today in 501 loca
tions across the country using some of our
current work force that have come back to
work. Throughout the day we've been get
ting additonal striking workers, voluntarily
showing up at the terminals," Klein says.
Meanwhile, if newly-hired temporary
employees stay on long enough, they may
become permanent, she says.
"The longer they stay with Greyhound,
the more firmly implanted they are with the
company and, chances are, they will be on
permanent," she says.
Contract negotiations — which started up
Tuesday morning but broke off late Thurs
day — will continue, Perkins says. But he
says they won't go quickly and he expects
to see an "extended strike."