Milkmen may deliver
It's not often a band throws a party in celebration of their first an
niversary and in honor of its fans — but that's just what Eugene's
Milkmen plan to do Tuesday at B.J. Kelly's. The cover charge is only $1
and there will be door prizes given away. Probably the highlight of the
evening will be a twist contest.
The Milkmen want to show their appreciation to all the fans who
have supported them during the year in the only way they know how,
by holding a dance.
The Milkmen are Henry Cooper, Randy Jack Haines, Boyd Small and
Mike Miller, a four-piece combo that plays '50s and '60s Rock'n'Roll like
no other band in Eugene. In the year since they first appeared they have
gained a steady following and the band wants to give back some of what
their fans have given them.
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Enrollment:
foreign language
course hours
Source: Registrar's office
1981 1982 1983
SPANISH
RUSSIAN
250
222
212
244
216
200
1981 1982 1983
Graphic by Debbie How lei
Figures show
language jump
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
Mid-term enrollment figures show increases in the number of
University students taking language courses, especially first-year
classes, department officials say.
Language enrollments parallel University enrollment, which
dropped from 16,645 in Fall 1981 to 15,405 in 1982 and rose to
15,478 this year.
“The languages really are in pretty healthy condition,” says
Perry Powers, romance languages department head.
This year, 514 students are enrolled in French I, as compared
to 474 taking the class last year, Powers says.
The first-year Italian program is surging ahead with 110
students taking the class, up from 87 last year, he says. Spanish I
enrollment has jumped from 300 last year to 336 this year.
A front-page Wall Street journal article in September, 1983
called languages "languishing," but Powers disagrees.
"Our enrollment does not justify any such adjective as
languishing," he says.
In the Russian department, 258 students are enrolled in
classes as compared to 212 last year, 222 in 1981 and 208 in 1980,
department officials say.
"First year is an important year. You've got to get the student
interested in the language," says John Beebe, professor of
Russian.
University students meet weekly in a Russian conversation
circle with Soviet immigrants who live in Eugene, Beebe says.
"Language is used to communicate in a cultural context," he
says.
First-year German enrollments have jumped from 200 last
year to 244 this year and department head Peter Gontrum partly
attributes the increase to a language emphasis in secondary
education.
"I notice a more serious type of student coming to the Univer
sity," he says.
Gontrum also credits some of the increase to a language
study the state did recently.
Several University professors served on the Governor's Com
mission on Foreign Languages and International Studies, which
recently submitted a report on the importance of foreign
languages in Oregon education, Gontrum says.
Second-year German enrollment increased from 144 last year
to 157 this year as did first-year Norwegian, from 23 last year to 32
this year. First-year Swedish rose from 21 last year to 27 this year.
Japanese professors were pleased with the 100 percent in
crease in students this year, says Stephen Kohl, East Asian
languages department head.
During the past ten years the program has increased by more
than 300 percent, he says.
"Before, we were an exotic language," Kohl says.
Interest in the language may be increasing partly for
economic reasons. Kohl says. China provides Oregon a potential
market and Oregon sells more goods to Japan than it buys from
them. Kohl says.
"Oregon is benefitting immensely from its relationship to
Japan," he says.
Some 65 students are taking Chinese this year — a figure the
department expected, Gontrum says. After Nixon visited China,
more students took the classes, but the figures have leveled off
now, he says.
Prof. Yoko McClain, author of a Japanese grammer hand
book, is an asset to the Japanese program, Gontrum says. The
book, now in its sixth printing,is "used all over the world," he
adds.
"It's not suprising that she (McClain) generates enrollment,"
he says.
As for the classics department, of the 30 people who signed
up for first-year Greek, only 10 students stayed the course, accor
ding to Bennett Pascal, department head.
In Latin, 20 out of 40 students remain in the first section and
14 out of 17 in the second section, he says.
But Pascal says enrollment figures in the classics department
are very different from other language enrollment figures.
"We are exempt from educational fads that come and go.
Foreign languages can go up and down and we remain fairly
steady because our students have a unique kind of motivation,"
Pascal says.
Language professors attribute some of the enrollment in
crease to new requirements for the bachelor of science degree
that began this fall. Students must now take math for the B.S.
degree, not just social science as in the past
But they can avoid the new math requirement by taking a
foreign language and receiving a B.A. degree, Beebe says,
i "Maybe a language s,eems easier than calculus."
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