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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1986)
Give up career search; major in the major league Admit it. No one ever wanted to grow up and become an ac countant or a banker or. for that matter, even a reporter. As children, few ever dream ed about sitting behind a desk when they grew up (unless, of course, that desk happened to be sitting in the Oval Office). We dreamed about becoming baseball players, firefighters and astronauts, but never about the joys of economics or English. For the most part, play in the backyard centered on hitting that homer with the bases load ed. two outs in the bottom of the ninth. But I don't think very many sat in their livingrooms and really dreamed about clos ing the big deal with Exxon. Yet, here we are, investing some $5.000-plus a year in search of the almighty career. 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Or do you ever remember say ing "Yeah, those astronauts, what ninnies. I’d much rather become an accountant"? Maybe it's our parents' fault. I mean think about it. Maybe it all happened because they stopped giving us baseball mitts and spac eships and started giv ing us calculators for Christmas. The parents, that's where this whole go-to-college. get-a carvt>r thing starts. Td bet. And once you’re caught in the trap, there's no getting out, Oh. sure, some people get to go to school to pursue the career they actually dreamed about as children Somehow, some way, certain people are able to escape all the horrible sidetracks toward a carter. Somehow, they are able to leap over all of the obstacles with their childhood dreams intact. They, a select few, actually get to go on and become astronauts and homerun hitters. Well, I for one have had enough of it all,. Here’s what we'll do. If everyone matured in becoming an astronaut or a Major league Basel)*!I player, and no one ma jored in becoming an accoun tant (or a reporter) then maybe campus recruiters would take on a different look. Maybe the Et al. column in this paper would read more like "May «: Los Angeles Dodgers (outfielders), group meeting ohr ly’*' rather than "May 0:.Federal .Deposit Insurance Corpv (bank, examiner trainee), group meeting only." So what if you can’t play. What do you go to college for anyway? Do many people come to college knowing how to keep the hooka for IBM or how to ex amine UNA strands? So. you see. if we spent four years play- ' ing baseball instead of writing es$ay% maybe we’d all get a shot at our childhood dreams and quit thinking about this career thing. I. for one, am going to the Registrar's Office today .to change my major to. Major i-oague Baseball with a minor in space. I’ll see ya’ In Homoruns 101. ^ by Allan Iami Marine recruits need experience, leadership skills and clean record By Patrick l.ow CM the F-owraid The Marines Corps is true to its slogan that it is looking for a few good men — out of the 103 University students who ap plied for the Marine Corps last year, only six were selected, said regional recruitment officer Capt. B.J. Toynbee. “What I'm looking for is a spotless record. A guy who's in good shape, very smart, no in volvement with drugs, no in volvement with the police — that’s what I'd like to find. And I’ve got so many people apply ing that I can ask for that . I don't have to make exceptions for the Marine Corps," he said. Toynbee said another impor tant factor he considers in an applicant is personality. Ap clones'" Toynbee said he would like? to dispel the image that members of the military are like Ramho "They (the movie industry) make us look like superstuds — *We don’t eat raw meat or chew on broken glass. 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