Oregon Daily
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1992
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 94. ISSUE 40
Campus operators get odd requests
□ University's human direc
tories say, "Look it up"
By Sarah Cody
Emerald Contributor
If you nord to know how to can to
matoes or cook rice, consult u cook
book or call your mom. but don't tall
the University operators
The campus operators, reached by
dialing 346-1000, can provide directory
Information and dialing assistance in
contacting students, departments and
faculty, said Dorothy Grover, telephone
operator supervisor and a 33-year vet
eran of Operator Services
Yet occasionally a caller asks a ques
tion that is far from routine
"One student asked if he could
freeze lettuce," Crover said smiling
But she was also quick to add that no
matter what the question, the campus
operators will try to refer the caller to
someone who knows the answer
When Dorothy Orover first started
answering campus phones in April
1959, the University used a I’BX Uurd
Phone System, which required 4t> oper
ators to handle Incoming calls Since
then the system has been upgraded
Iwlctt
The first upgrade w.is to the Centrex
System in 1 ‘J70. and then to the pres
ent AT&T System (if> installed in 1 *»♦»(>
The new system requires only three op
erator* ind makes service* im h as
Duck ( all and voire mail available,
(’.rover said
Diane Nelson, one of two full-time
operators, also started working on the
old PBX phone system after graduating
from South Eugene High School in
1959
"This is the only job I've ever had.
Turn to OPERATORS Pa<j« 6A
tiy Kim tyupen
Lots McDonald hat worked at a campus
operator tor 20 year*. "You have to
remember that (we) are the University as
tar as people are concerned," she said
Photo by Jo« PMbry
Freshman Brandy Ran fro la ana of eight students living at the Cottage House. Overbooking of dormitories forced
some students to live in otf<ampus housing, "ft's kind of like having an apartment,"she said.
Dorm students
say ‘Cottage’ is
more like home
jAn old sorority house is turned into a
dorm due to lack of housing
By Tammy Batey
Emerald Associate Eddor_______
A chandelier hangs In the (oyer Paintings adorn the
walls, and a c ouple of dried flower arrangement Ml on
coffee table's in the mauve and gray living room
The three story. 14 hod room house at I'Mti University
St Icxiks nothing like a dormitory Hut IH women who
signed up for dorm rooms now i all Cottage House their
home
In August. University Housing officials realized they
had overestimated the number of students who would
cancel dorm room reservations, said Ron Tundick, hous
ing department director of business affairs and family
housing
About 4*) percent of students who reserve a dorm
room usually cancel, Tendic k said This year, however.
17 percent canceled, causing the housing department to
overbook, dorm rooms
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Child care at University faced with inadequate facilities
□ One center has
twice as many chil
dren as last year
By Mandy Baucum
Emerald Reporter
Evelyn Gould, u University
employee and Child Caro and
Family Support Committee
member, is faced with the task
of finding a child care facility
for her two-year-old son uftt^r
ho turns throe.
Could said she would like to
put her son into the IvMU Child
Cart; and Development Center,
but it gives children of students
priority over the children of
faculty and staff
"Although faculty have fi
nancial benefits like the fc!m
ployec Dependent Child care
account, there art! no facilities
or programs available to faculty
(for their children) after the age
of three. Wo should have u
model child cure facility."
Gould said
Gould said oven tho Parent
and Child Education Toddler
Program hor child goes to is
hard to got into because of long
waiting lists Tho need for
funding and competition for
child caro slots were a few of
the major complications facing
the University's child care sys
tem.
Coordinators did their best to
address these and many other
problems at the University Par
ent Town Meeting this past
Thursday.
The Parent Town Meeting
was an effort on the part of
child care administrators not
only to hear parent needs and
suggestions hut also to provide
a forum in which representa
tives from all of the campus
child care facilities could ex
change ideas and work togeth
er.
"The feedback loop hasn't
been very good. That was the
initial mason for doing this in
tho first place." said Regina
Claypool-Froy, interim co-coor
dinator for the Family Center
and parent coordinator for the
University Parent Town Meet
ings.
Lar k of space for child care is
a major concern among parents
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WEATHER
Today will bring fair skies and
patchy morning fog Highs will
be between 65-70 degrees
Tonight there will be a chance of
a sprinkle or two along with
increasing douds Lows are 40
45 dearees
Wednesday will be mostly
tJoudy with chance of drizxle
Highs will be in the upper 50s
KING OF THE ROAD DIES
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Roger Miller was mourned Mondav by fellow
singers, fnends and hobos They recalled his down-home ch.irm in ihe
finger-snapping hi! 'King of the Road", the twangy "Dang Me" and the
goofy 'Can'! Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd.'
'Out of his mouth would flow the most unusual yet appropriate lines
you would ever hear." said Bill Boyd, executive director of the Academy of
Country Music and a longtime friend
‘He was fun to be around. I think Roger was most at home in front of a
microphone entertaining people, whether it be five people or 5,000 ‘
The nation's hobos also gneved the weekend death or Miller, whose 1965
song ‘King of the Road* gave rail-riders an anthem
SPORTS
MIAMI (AP) Nineteen people were hurt, none seriously,
when a partition shattered, showering some spectators at joe
Robbie Stadium with broken glass near the end of the
Indianapolis-Miami game.
Excited fans hoping to see the previously undefeated
Dolphins come back to win had tieen pounding on the 2-by-S
foot divider at the bottom of an upper deck stairway, witness
es and officials said Sunday
"It's like a tempered safety glass It breaks like a car win
dow. it breaks into tiny pieces,' an official said
The partition was designed to allow fans dear views of the
field but prevent falls over the railing