Sales tax forum meets today
Students interested in finding
out more on Ballot Measure 1
can attend an informational
forum today.
"The Sales Tax and Higher
Ed” forum will he it) Room 100
Willamette Hall from 6:30 to 8
p.m.
Panel members include Jim
Schunringer. who sat on the com
mittee that drafted Ballot Mea
sure 1
This will be a forum for stu
dents to ask questions so students
will vote with the facts." said
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New service assists
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By Susanne Steffen*
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The University is becoming increasingly more international,
with an International College that includes more than 1.600
students from more than 90 countries.
In order to help assist the International Office of Education
and Exchange with the steady increase of international stu
dents arriving each year, a new program started this fall.
The program's main purpose is to help the new students bet
ter adjust to the University during their first crucial term.
The person behind the program. Magid Shirzadegan. an
international adviser at the international office, has named the
new service the International Peer Assistants Program.
The adaptation to a new lifestyle and educational system is
a potentially painful process that can take both time and effort,
but with the help of the international peer assistants, this
process ran become a step easier.
The 10 international peer assistants employed by the Office
of Education and Exchange have been providing support and
resources through the hospitality table, which is an essential
part of the new program.
The table consists of brochures and flyers that concentrate
on the most important resources on campus, and the peer assis
tants have boon trained to provide the information and support
the now students need, which can involve anything from aca
demic to cultural issues.
Tho hospitality table started during Orientation Week in
the EMU has now relocated to Room 314 Oregon Hall, where
the peer assistants have office hours Monday through Friday
from 12 p.m. to 2 a m.
Along with the hospitality table, the peer assistants will have
four workshops this term that will concentrate on how to
adjust in tho classroom and how the American educational sys
tem differs from those of other countries.
The first workshop will take place today, and the next ones
will lie on Oct. 29, Nov. 12. and Nov. 19.
The workshops have already received a lot of attention
because they will provide students with new information
about how to better comprehend and American university
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