Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8,1991
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 93. ISSUE 29
Co-ops provide shelter from the commonplace
Members share
responsibilities,
social activities
By Tammy Batey
t'r ,i.i1 Reporter
Bds of t:otn ci s.ition over
heard at a living org. nidation's
group meetings ^i\ t: vdu an
idea of what it's like to live:
there.
"1 did laundry yesterday, and
some nice person folded it. It
totally made my day."
"We'll play for $125, and tor
,m extra $50, we'll play naked.'
"(A juicer) is cheaper than
Genesis " "Isn't everything/"
However, these comments
weren’t heard at the meeting of
just any community This
group priiies itself on living in
not just a house but a home
Bordering the University
along Alder Street are the usual
sororities, fraternities and
apartment complexes. But there
are also three rambling old
houses that constitute half ol
tlie six l ’niversitv co-ops
Residents of Janet Smith,
borax Manor and Campbell
Club co-ops say there are many
advantages to cooperative liv
ing.
"The reason 1 moved in is, i
wanted to be In mg, not just ex
isting," said borax Manor resi
dent Tom Higbey. "America is
a very alienating sot mty Co
ops are a very useful way to
bring people together "
There are 22 students living
in Janet Smith, iO in borax
Manor and 31 in Campbell
Club. All three co-ops are still
ret rioting new residents lor fall
term
The Students' Co-operative
Association owns tin' three
houses, and residents are con
sidered partial owners of their
co-op. This brings students
both advantages and responsi
bilities.
Because co-op residents don’t
Sonya HerboUheimer, a resident ot Campbell Club co-op, lakes her turn at crashing dishes Cooperative living means assigned household
chores and a lively social atmosphere. Your social lile is right here, Herbolzheimer s<iys
havo a landlord t>r resident us
sistanl to oversee repairs, they
must fix everything themselves.
Change is just u paint brush
away.
'You no longer havo a land
lord making decisions lor you,
because you uru tho landlord,”
Campbell Club rosidont John
Flannery said "You and the
people you are living with de
termine your living environ
ment."
Each of tho three houses
holds weekly meetings at
which residents discuss issues
such as unwanted guests, tip
coming parlies and tin: pur
chuso of new appliances
Co-op living can be cheaper
than many other living arrange
merits, including on-campus
housing SC.Vs ownership of
the three houses helps keep
costs low
At borax Manor, the cost per
school year is Sit,OIK) lor a sin
gle room and about SJ.-100 for
residents who share a room
In the residence halls, ex
( hiding the University Inn, the
l ost per school year is 'vt.'IO..’
for a single and Sit,070 for a
multiple
June! SmiiJt, borax M.inor
find Campbell l dub also tiller
students tlie opium <>l lieing a
boarder Hoarders don'! live a!
tlie co-op but may eat there and
are considered co-op members
1'he cos! lor boarders is about
■>5 a day.
Many co-op residents like co
operative living because there
is always someone around d
they're in the mood for conver
sation.
"Your social life is right here
a t h o mo," said S o n y a
Herbol/.hoimer, a Campbell
Club resident "It’s nice to go
out ami have a six ial 11 fi•. but
it's ui< cr to havi' it where
you're living There's always
something to do."
Living in a co-op does not
mean a Ide of no work, and a 11
play, however Kaeh resident is
responsible for about six to sev
en hours of work, in the no-op
each week That c ml Id mean
anything from cooking meals to
cleaning bathrooms
The co-ops also bold work
parlies during which residents
tackle the bigger chores that
1 urn to CO-OPS Pago 4
Class evaluations
chaotic, misplaced
By Dennis Fitzgerald
Emerald Reporter
It’s u week before registration, and you want to got some
background information about prospective professors. You go
to Iho Knight Library to look at the collected teacher rvalue
lions, but all you find is a mess.
A quick flip through the binders, some of them falling
apart, reveals a few readable documents, some impossibly
laded photocopies and computer printouts that may as well
be in hieroglyphics.
Summaries for classes in physics, health and computer in
fort nation science contain page after page of impressive col
umns and rows of tabulated responses without copies i I
the coi responding questions.
The bindois for classes in the Honors College and the wom
en's studies department ant empty.
Problems with student course evaluations are not new, and
u v’n not limited to bad documentation, said John Powell,
Turn to EVALUATIONS, ^ 5
Program gives instructors
feedback on performance
By Carrie Dennett
triii/,lid Associate Editor
It's ,i good hot you've had
courses from some instructors
who put you to sleep .iml
courses from others who actual
ly made you look, forward to at
tending class.
Why the difference? Arc
some instructors more Enow I
cdgeuhlo than others' Perhaps,
hut the real difference usually
comes from how well they can
communicate their knowledge
to their students in short,
how skilled they are ,t teach
ing
University President Myles
Piand has discusser! increasing
the University’s commitment to
undergraduate education, m
< hiding merit pay based on
touching quality.
On an individual basis. many
faculty and graduate teaching
fellows are taking advantage of
services to help make them hel
ler teachers.
The Teaching Effectiveness
Program, part of Academic
Learning Services, offers sever
al ways for instructors to gel
free, confidential feedbac k on
how well they are conducting
their classes
Anne Laskaya, a senior in
structor in the Knglish depart
merit, has used the program's
midterm analysts of teaching in
some of her classes.
"When vou teach a new
; nurse, I think it's really useful
to get feedback from students
Turn to FEEDBACK Page 4
INDEX
Horses
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with dis
abilities .ire
soiling tho
o ii idoors
from ii now
pors|)oi live
with tli<! help oI .1 program
that trains horses to accom
modate (disabled riders
See story, Page 8
Golf_
The Oregon women's golf
team escaped the cellar tint
still finished ltith out of 18
at the Ping l.adv Sun i lev ,1
Collegiate Coif Tournament,
held at Arizona State
See story, Page 13