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Q: What JOB OPPORTUNITY at the university gives you valuable leadership experience, allows you to meet many interesting people and pays your living expenses? A: Resident Assistant University Housing is now accepting applications for Resident Assistants for the 1994-95 academic year. To apply: 1- Pick up an application packet at the University Housing Office, Walton Complex. 2- Attend one of the three mandatory informational sessions Jan. 19 7pm Riley Hall Lounge Jan 20 7pm Hamilton Ramey Room Jan. 25 7pm Carson Gold Room 3- Hand in application to Housing Office before the deadline: Tuesday, February 1st at 5pm Qualifications: Must be a full time student at the U of O with above a 2.5 GPA and junior standing by fall term 1994. Compensation: Room and board in a single room, and $600 An A A EO institution committed to cultural diversity and in compliance with the ADA NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL I Oregon West Fitness Is the place to work out! I Oregon West fitness I Best Hours 7 Days a week 6am-11pm 485-1624 hH i • * . r H NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL • $35 per month till the end of the school year • NO Initiation Fee • Pay by the Month Expires 1/24/94 Oregon West f i t n t s s 1475 Franklin Blvd. Across from campus 485-1624 J L HOMELESS Continued from Page 7 A clear to me what I'm supposed to want to do." Although drugs helped him survive on the streets when he was younger and later gave him a sense of identity. Keefer no longer relies on them K*< opt for occasional marijuana. Keefer said he's been dean for three years It wasn't an easy sacrific e for him to make. "See. from the time I was an adolescent until I was about .IS. I knew who I was and what I was doing." Keefer said '! was a dnig addu t. selling drugs It didn't matter w here I was — l.os Ange les. San Franc isco. Sac ramento, Seattle. Portland — it took no time to fall into it Not long after he decided to stop using drugs. Keefer met a slns>t prune her he* could relate to. and he dedicated his life to Christ At first Keefer thought Chris tianity was just filling in the vac - uum that drugs left behind, but after the preacher taught him how to pray, he discovered that, in a sense, prayer does work "1 don't know that you can wish for brand-new Chryslers and girlfriends and money and stuff like that, hut there's spiritual gifts that are available to anyone that'll ask for them for absolutely noth ing. .. As far as I'm concerned, prayer works,” Keefer said "That's why I stayed a Christian I became a Christian because 1 was looking for something, and it worked right off I felt better right away." Since becoming a Christian. Keefer said that although he's still on the streets, his life has c hanged a great deal. 1 think. 1 used to steal, I think 1 used to lie. I think I used toe ov et, I think 1 used to do a lot ol things, he said. "iNow) iny dirts (ion is corns t, but I think I need to do more in terms of ser \ ice 1 could devote my time to serving humanity and prayer, and I can't imagine anything that makes mom sense, that would do more good than that. Unfortu nately. it doesn't pay very well." Keefer told me he would like to get a job that would allow him to help others, but that for home less people, getting jobs is near ly impossible without help "Who's going to hire me? It's no! based on who you are or what von know, Keefer said it s what you look like and how you smalt, and I look like shit and small like at. too K*h ently. hoping he could find someone to help him find a job. Keefer talked to a woman at the food stamp offu e who, he said, was less than encouraging and not at all helpful. When she realized Keefer iv.is homeless, she refused to sign him up for a |ob search program. She told him that. b\ law. since he had no home address, he didn't have to he looking for a job in order to receive food stamps Despite his best efforts to con vim e her that he really wanted a job. that he wanted to "get a life." she would not help him. Finally, the woman gave him the address for the Oregon State Employment Office. There, he says lie got the same kind of response "I go in to talk to the guy and he takes one look at me and goes. You’re homeless, how are you going to hold a job? And I'm like. Well. I can get a wind-up alarm dock. I'll make it there, whatev er. let me worry about that. Just help me out, give me a lead.' ... Well, actually this guy talked me out of it. He convinced me that I could never hold any of these jobs that I was looking for. like dishwasher, baker ... and I just got up and said, 'You're right, you're absolutely right, I couldn't hold a job like this.’ " In retrospect. Keefer knows the man at the state employment office was not right "He wouldn’t iall these places. He kept looking at the clock, thinking, hey maybe the next one actually has a hair cut lie was all the way wrong." Keefer hasn't given up looking for a job He has been filling out job applications for the past cou ple of weeks liut hasn't had any luck. "Even at 38 I'd still like to involve myself, immerse myself, totally sink into a career, have .1 family, things like that," Keefer said "It just seems like there ought to he something in this big world that I tan do. that 1 can master, that wouldn't necessari ly pay me any money, but that would provide me with some sort of sense of accomplishment and enough resources to support a family. Hopefully this is just a small part of my life. This is just the first half." SONY Continued from Page 1A Sony plans to build on an 80-acre situ near Deodmond Ker ry Koad. which is east of 1-5 ami north of Springfield's Gateway Mall. Of the 80-acre parcel. Springfield currently owns l\ acres, worth about $600,000. Moskovitz said the city may give the land to Sony, confident it would recoup the $800,000 in taxes from Sony during the next few years. He said the city council was behind the plan, but public hearings would Ik? conducted before the decision was made final. The city plans to buy the remaining acreage and sell it to Sony in one part*!. In addition to the jobs created at the plant. Susan Daluddung. Springfield's Development Services Director, said even more jobs would be created because construction contractors would be needed to build the Sony facility. Daluddung said construction is scheduled to liegin Apr. 1, and the center should be completed by July. Furthermore, she said the 300 jobs provided by Sony are part of its Phase I plan. The company's Phase 11 plan, whic h may be implemented within the plant's second year of operation, would result in more jobs, possibly as many as 900. The jobs would span from entry-level all the way up to managerial jobs. Other benefits to the area include the relocation of “spin-off” industries, which supply Sony with raw materials Daluddung said it was not yet definite which industries might relocate. Daluddung said, as of yet. there had been no real opposi tion to Sony's plans. "They have up-to-date environmental standards.” she said, "and they can build a state-of-the-art building."
