Footnotes lend students a hand
By David Carlson
Of tha Emerald
More than 1,600 students this
fall will buy a term packet of
footnotes from Student Projects
Inc., says Debbie Schwartz,
director of the private foot
noting company located in the
EMU basement.
But even with the large
number of customers, the com
pany is operating at a loss,
which Schwartz attributes in
part to resistance by some pro
fessors to use of the footnoting
service.
The footnotes, which are
notes taken of lectures, are
made available to large lecture
classes with each professor's
consent. The notes are then pro
duced by the organization, in
dependently of the University
and of the professors.
This fall 27 professors, three
less than last year, have agreed
to let the company include their
classes on the “footnotes”
menu. The reduction has come
from professors who see foot
notes as a crutch for students, or
an excuse not to attend lectures,
she says.
Schwartz views the notes dif
ferently, however.
“Footnotes are excellent as
supplemental notes and for
foreign students who may have
a problem with the language,”
she say8.
But biology Prof. James
Weston, who discontinued
footnotes in his large Biology
201 class this year, says that
footnotes are a form of “institu
tionalized passivism.”
“There is a class of students
who come to depend on them
(footnotes) because they don’t
know how to take notes or they
have no intention of taking
them,” Weston says. "1 feel 1
need to protect a small portion
of the class from themselves.”
Another professor who stop
ped approving footnotes this
Debbie Schwartz
year is Prof. Fred Attneave, who
says that previous inaccuracies
led to this decision regarding
his Psychology 211 class.
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Proof of residency needed for I.D. cards
By Cynthia Whitfield
Of Ihc Emerald
Students applying for Oregon
driver's licenses and I.D. cards
must be prepared to show prool
of Oregon residency, says Al
Vasquez, office manager of the
West Eugene Motor Vechicles
Division.
“A new law requires
evidence of residency—such as
an electric bill—showing the in
dividual's name and address.
There can be a problem when
three guys live in one building
and only one guy pays the
bills.” he says.
Rent receipts, lease
agreements and personal letten
delivered through the postal
service may also be used tc
prove residency.
The law was adopted last Oc
tober in response to complainti
from local businesses and lav
enforcement officials, say:
Vasquez.
"People were coming in anc
giving addresses that don’t ex
ist. It became a problem when
law enforcement and businesses
tried to get them,” he says.
Three pieces of identification
are required in order to receive a
driver’s license or state I.D.
card.
One piece must indicate
name and date of birth. Birth
certificates, out-of-state I.D.
cards and passports will suffice
for this.
Two “supporting” pieces of
I.D. must also be produced, one
proving Oregon residency.
Other acceptable verifications
include checkbooks and proof
of school registration.
For foreign students the pro
blem is more complicated,
however.
Foreign students may drive
t without applying for a driver’s
license because “they are here
t only temporarily as students,
and don’t have to establish
I residency,” says Vasquez.
But some students decide
they want an I.D. card, for such
conveniences as cashing
checks. If a student is stopped
by police, and can present an
Oregon I.D. card, but no Oregon
driver’s license, there can “be a
problem,” Vasquez says. The
student cannot claim to be a
non-resident, and hold an
Oregon I.D. card.
One old problem has all but
disappeared from the Motor
Vehicles Division though. Few
students are attempting to ob
tain false I.D. to get into bars or
buy liquor.
“Two or three years ago it
was a real problem. We began
contacting law enforcement,
and now there’s a stricter penal
ty. If you give a false name or
false date of birth you can
receive a maximum $2,500 fine,
a year jail sentence, or both,
with an automatic cancellation
of the driver’s license for a
year,” Vasquez.
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