Oregon Daily
Emerald
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1993
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 94. ISSUE 95
Students learn cooperation
during Micronesia internship
j Program difficult,
but cultural
experience valuable
By Chester Alien
Emerald Reporter
Kileen Marie believed she was
ready to live on a tropical
island, but when eerie, scrab
bling sounds from her hallway
woke her one night, she wasn't
so sure.
Waving its antennae, a four
inch long cockroach stood in her
doorway.
"This huge cockroach was just
looking at me." Marie said. "He
didn't run away. He looked like
he was ready to fight."
Getting used to huge cock
roaches and hand-sized spiders
was just one of the adjustments
students from the University's
Micronesia Program had to
make during their three-month
public affairs internships in the
Federated States of Micronesia,
a chain of islands in the South
Pacific.
Marie was one of 13 interns
who worked with local officials
on public affairs projects, said
Micronesia Project Director
Maradel Gale.
Gale said the interns must
have a groat deal of maturity and
patience to adjust to one of
Micronesia's many island cul
tures and climates.
Former interns said gaining
the trust of local residents and
adapting to a new culture was
the most difficult — and reward
mg — challenge they faced dur
ing their internships
Co lean Fox, who helped plan
a safe drinking water system for
Ute island of Pohnpei, said the
had to change her lifestyle when
she moved to Micronesia
"I had an interesting living sit
uation.'' she said "There was no
running water or toilets on my
part of the island, so I took my
daily shower in a stream near
my house."
Fox said many of her Western
cultural ideas didn't work in
Pohnpei. and she had to adjust
to the island’s culture to work
with her local counterpart.
"I learned to slow down and
take things less seriously." she
said. "After working for a while.
Turn to MICRONESIA, Page 3
Yamada offers high-tech help
□ Students studying language
benefit from computers, satellite
By Damian McLean
Emerald Reporter
For University foreign language students too
broke to travel abroad, the Yamada Language
Center may be the next best thing.
With the help of computers and satellite dish
es. students at the Yamada Language Center can
improve their reading and comprehension
skills and watch the evening news as it is
broadcast from Germany, China and Japan.
Eric Mah, a senior chemistry major enrolled
in Chinese n. said working in the computer lab
several hours a week hashelped him sharpen
his speaking skills.
Mah sits before a desktop outfitted with a liq
THIRD
OF THREE PARTS
uid crystal display panel
and a pair of headphones,
complete with a voice-acti
vated microphone. He slips
the headphones on and
lowers the swing-arm of the
microphone in front of his
mouth.
"It's very helpful with
pronunciation. Man saia. in tne um ear you
near a model Chinese voice. In the right, you
hear your own voice. It's easy to practice and
improve."
The desk set-up is the basic tool of the cen
ter's education for German. Spanish. French.
English, Italian. Chinese, Japanese. Thai. Russ
ian, Norwegian and Swahili.
Students can practice their pronunciation
Turn to YAMADA. Page 3
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Jenny f?oof of Eugene climbs one of the basalt
columns at Skinner's Butte. Columns at the butte are
popular with climbers because they provide many dif
ferent challenges. See related photos, Page 5.
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by Dywn CoaW
OPS officials will work the traffic and information booth, checking dri
vers' destinations and rerouting traffic.
Booth set up to reduce traffic
j Manned booth will
direct drivers, check
parking permits
By Daralyn Trappe
Emeiatd Associate Editor
A nearly finished booth out
side Oregon Hall on t'ith
Avenue is likely to he operable
within the next few weeks, and,
if all goes according to plans,
will help cut down on campus
traffic.
Thu University's Office of
Public Safety made a proposal
Inst spring to the Physical Plant
for a manned booth to provide
information and to regulate the
number of motor vehicles
allowed to travel .dong Pith
Avenue between Oregon Mall
and the KMt
An OPS employee will he at
the booth from 7 a in. to 5 p in.
on weekdays to < hoc k incoming
curs for parking permits and
immediate destination. If drivers
ure headed to the Johnson Hall
parking area or places thul < on
be accessed another way, they
will In* asked to use an alternate
route.
Carla Levinski, Physical Plant
planning associate, said excep
tions will be made for delivery
drivers Short-term, metered
parking spates wdl l>e available
for people needing to get to the
KMC Post Office or the KMC
Child Care Center
Now parking spat.es will l>o
Turn to BOOTH, Page 6
WEATHER
High* will rest h into the 60s.
but light amount* of rain are
possible as well.
Today m History
In 1974. newspaper heiress
Patricia Hears! was kidnapped
from her apartment in Berkley.
Calif., bv members of the
Symbionese Liberation Army
COLORADO LAW ATTACKED
TELUJRJDE. (iolo. (AP) - In the firs! municipal counterattack on anti-gay
rights Amendment 2. voters in this mountain resort approved an anti-dis
crimination ordinance that includes protections for homosexuals.
Telluride. with a 4M151 vote, outlawed discrimination in housing,
employment and public services based on sexual orientation, race, gender,
religion and other categories.
Tne measure directly opposes Amendment 2. which prohibits state or
local laws that protec t gays from discrimination. It was approved by
Colorado voters Nov. 3. A Denver judge last month suspended the measure
pending the outcome of a court challenge.
SPORTS
CHICAGO (AP) - Marty; Scholl was suspended as
Cincinnatli Reds owner Wednesday for one year and fined
$25,000 for 'using language that is racially and ethnically
offensive.'
Following an investigation that began Dec 1. baseball's rul
ing executive council found that statements attributed to the
M-year-old owner were not "in the best interests of baseball ’
The suspension will begin Mari h I. hut Schott can apply for
reinstatement Nov. I if she attends and completes multicul
tural training programs.
Schott agreed to accept the penalty, said her lawyer Robert
Bennett.